In Hollywood, a Netflix miniseries created by Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan, viewers are invited to imagine a 1940s America in which racism is an aberration.

Neon Genesis Evangelion presents itself as a giant robot anime, but action loses its centrality as the series progresses. Minus the tropes of the genre, Evangelion presents a story of how dysfunctional individuals try (and fail) to live their lives while facing a mounting unavoidable catastrophe.

In a junk mail-filled world of fast fashion and here-today-gone-tomorrow memes and tweets it’s re-assuring to get reminders that not everything has gone to hell in a hand basket.