[…] In between vintage charm and current favorites you have the ’80s period pieces. The second season of Netflix’s Stranger Things at least broadened its Ready Player One–style fetishism to encompass Kenny Rogers and Metallica, while FX’s The Americans has been around long enough to develop an intimate and rewarding relationship with Peter Gabriel. If it’s classic ’90s jams you seek, the Billions hive will gladly tell you that the Showtime high-finance drama used Counting Crows’ “Round Here” to spectacular effect as the bookend to a recent third-season episode, further elucidating “the crumbling difference between wrong and right.” And FX’s grim The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story planted its feet in both decades earlier this year, depicting a string of lurid mid-’90s murders and including an American Psycho–style scene of the killer nearly duct-taping a potential victim to death while dancing to the 1984 Philip Bailey–Phil Collins classic “Easy Lover.” Maybe keep that, too.
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