ABC's commander-in-chief features Geena Davis as a female president preoccupied with terror threats, NBC's E-Ring stars Dennis Hopper as a Pentagon general fighting evildoers, and Showtime's Sleeper Cell is about a group of Muslim extremists in Los Angeles.
Thompson says that this slew of shows means that the cultural taboos surrounding 9/11 are being broken.
"It's only natural. As time goes by it becomes less difficult to talk about," he says.
"Ultimately it will be the art of 9/11 that may give us the most penetrating understanding of what it means," Thompson predicts. "A lot of it won't be very good. But eventually there will be a masterpiece."
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