'Two American Families: 1991-2024,' premiering Tuesday on PBS, examines two Milwaukee families struggling with capitalism.
In the sense that television is a lens through which we view ourselves, it's as often as not a cracked one, or one smeared with Vaseline, to make things crazier or prettier. It takes a certain kind of restraint and support — given the comparative lack of commercial potential — for TV to engage life as it is, unmediated by writers rooms or reality producers. For that, you're going to have to turn to public broadcasting.
The villains glimpsed here include extortionate interest rates, predatory banks, outsourcing labor, a healthcare system that punishes those without benefits and the destruction of the labor movement . We see presidents from Clinton onward promising a brighter tomorrow, even as little changes for the Neumanns and Stanleys, or changes for the worse.
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