look, the whole power of dazed and confused and the wonder years when they step beyond the timeless issues stuff is that they share a perspective with the audience on what those things mean.

dazed and confused is dismissive of 70s politics but not 70s counterculture, for example. its saying, if we had been around then, this is how we would have handled ourselves. or if a movie or show is set in the past and the characters commit to some sort of behavior or attitude that people in the consuming culture wouldn't agree with, its done with a wink at the audience. see, forrest gump.

they share that perspective with the audience intended to consume that media in 1993 or 1990 or whatever.

understanding how the generation before you is different from you, filtering out the parts that don't matter to you, creating a narrative of how they got it right and what it all meant, thats part of defining YOUR generation.