A wave of TV shows is quietly overwhelming our not-so-distant past with the likes of Ripley, One Day and The Gentlemen asking why Hollywood can’t bear to let last decade’s movies grow cold. This article follows that inquiry from IP-hungry streamers to prestige makeovers, nostalgia on fast-forward, ideological rewrites and an industry terrified of irrelevance. Whatever it may be, we obtain a culture remaking what it still remembers and calling it “new” with suspicious enthusia

In this article, Jackson Palmer explores the thematic parallels between stop-motion animation and the autumnal aesthetic, and how these connections pay homage to stop-motion’s foreground ability to produce fabricated stories that beautify our corporeal world from which it physically derives.