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Originally Posted by Brad
We sometimes forget how much of an impact The Simpsons, NYPD Blue and ER had on the TV landscape, perhaps because all three shows have/had long runs and may have overstayed their welcome. But they were cultural juggernauts in their glory days.
Similarly The Larry Sanders Show on HBO paved the way for the prestige cable (and later streaming) television that followed, with The Sopranos premiering at the end of the ’90s.
It was definitely a unique decade, with cable gaining more of a foothold in our homes and starting to siphon the critical acclaim that once belonged to the networks. It was also arguably the last decade of appointment/watercooler television. (By the middle of the aughts, many of us were time shifting, streaming and watching on-demand programming.)
The ’90s are definitely a hard decade to define when it comes to television. With an ever expanding menu of channels and programming, there were a lot of different genres that were popular.
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that is a lie lmao 2000s were just as much appointment television
TRL (for Teens in the 2000s( yes it was)
The Sopranos
Malcolm in The Middle
That 70s Show
The OC
The Wire (Premiered June 2002 )