ABC Laffer 'The Goldbergs' Plays Fast and Loose With '80s Timeline

February 06, 2014
ABC Laffer 'The Goldbergs' Plays Fast and Loose With '80s Timeline
By Brian Steinberg Imagine becoming an archaeologist in, say, 2065. Your first big assignment? Dig up the now-collapsed Museum of the 1980s and catalog all its holdings: the Clash, "The Empire Strikes Back," He-Man, Donkey Kong and a recording by Kim Carnes. This is the feeling I often get when I watch ABC's "The Goldbergs," which plays on the same turf as "The Wonder Years," "Happy Days" and "That '70s Show," but does it in the era in which... Full Story on Variety.com→
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