Is Black Monday’s Coke Robot Better Than GLOW’s Drug Robot?

Invariably, modern TV shows set in the 1980s are almost obligated to include a few things as visual cues: teased hair (see, The Goldbergs); Members Only jackets (see Stranger Things); and increasingly, robots that serve drugs, at least if the show’s on cable or streaming.

They say it takes three examples to make a trend, which means the arrival of the cocaine-serving robot in Showtime’s Black Monday is not yet a formal declaration that blow baristas are suddenly about to replace podcasts as the thing producers have to put on the air. But the motorized nose candy dispenser does follow in the tracks of the robot in GLOW, which scoots around Bash Howard’s parties welcoming guests with uppers, downers and a few things in between. So while these sugar booger servants aren’t exactly a…