After the post - tribute to my favourite Tv series of the 1980s, here is the next post, this time about my favourite decade, the 1990s.
It was the era when more TV channels were created in Greece, as private television entered the market. From the point that we had only two channels and -mostly- black and white TV, we suddenly found ourselves with 5-6 new channels and with color TV (like Dire Straits).
More channels meant more shows. In the beginning, apart from the American series, the renewed Greek TV sphere featured many series from the Latin American TV market : Muñeca Brava (with the Greek title Milagros, the untamed), Marimar, Rosalinda and many others that were very popular in our country. When these series were shown, we -the children- had to be quiet, because the adults were watching them with great devotion.
However, apart from the Greek series (which, frankly, in that decade excellent series were created, which are still a point of reference even today by the younger generations), American-produced serials dominated.
And then there were the American series that had a Greek theme. These were great hit in the greek audience, series like : Hercules, Xena The Warrior Princess...
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Well, I'm starting my 2nd nostalgic trip to the 1990s in descending order...
Drumrolls, please...
Νumber 5
Beverly Hills 90210
The company of these young people from different economic and social backgrounds who manage to unite their differences conquered the Greek audience, including me. It was a topic of conversation the day after the screening the adventures of Brandon, Kelly, Brenda, Donna, Steve, David and Dylan.
Ah, that Dylan, he was the teenage crush of many girls (not mine, you'll see mine below), that brooding boy with the bad boy air.
The series dealt with many The series dealt with many of the issues of concern to young people at the time: pregnancy, HIV, crime, drugs, abortion and more. But it was the relationships between the protagonists that was the dominant issue: I remember that in school, at the time of the Dylan - Kelly - Brenda love triangle, we were divided half of us to support Kelly (team Kelly) and the other half to support Brenda (team Brenda).
Fun fact: the Greek title was "Beating Hearts in Beverly Hills"
Number 4
Married with children
Al, who is a shoe salesman has married Peggy and they have two children, Kelly and Bud. What could be more conventional, you might say? But this family transcended all conventionality and became the show that deconstructed the American dream.
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Al who failed in all his attempts to change his life, the slow-witted Peggy who was only interested in sex, the "easy" daughter with the low IQ and finally, the son who was always alone, without the relationship he so desperately wanted.
It was the show that poignantly portrayed "hell" through family life. Al's deadly and frequent one-liners-attacks on his family members and vice versa have gone down in television history giving us laughter and a slight tendency towards irony that still remains with us.
Number 3
E.R.
When you've lived in a hospital for a while, you know it's not all shiny and clean like the hospitals in the other series. And especially, when your life is in danger or you see the doctors running around, they're not well-dressed and grimy like the doctors in the daytime shows.
That's what I appreciated about E.R. It was the raw reality as I experienced it. The doctors, who didn't wear expensive clothes and jewelry, but were in their hospital gowns, the nurses who dominated the show because they are essentially the ones who run a hospital. And they were all crumpled up, they were all people with feelings who were trying to do good, but sometimes their circumstances defeated them or their bad selves came out.
And let's not forget, it was the show that gave George Clooney the spotlight as the charming pediatrician in love with nurse Julianna Margulies.That is enough to go to number 3 of my ranking.
Number 2
The X files
Mulder and Scully, two mismatched people join forces to shed light on unexplained cases, ones that usually go beyond the bounds of reason. Scully, a scientist and a fanatic believer in logic, tries to interpret events in a scientific and logical way, while Mulder, more open to supernatural and paranormal interpretations. These two make an investigative couple whose cases we have been following for many years, waiting to see when they will become a real-life couple.
Their stories often seemed unreal, but always left us wondering in our heads and is Mulder right? Although I admit I was with Scully, however some of the assumptions made me question and start to question some things.
In the bonuses and the series music.
Number 1
Twin peaks (Fire walk with me)
The series that marked me in many ways. When it began airing on national television in the early 1990s, it immediately caught my interest.
The body of the young queen of the small country town of Twin Peaks washes upand good-hearted, enthusiastic (with coffee and pie) FBI agent Dale Cooper (Kyle Mac Lachlan) comes to the small town to solve the case.
In this town, "nothing is as it seems". What seems like a simple police story through David Lynch's surrealistic eye becomes a metaphysical mystery. The superficial tranquility of small American society, with its inhabitants repelling their rejects deep within themselves so that they become savages, the power of evil crushing everything in its wake.
And all this as if it were a dream. Dale Cooper often dreams of figures, the ones that escape him in everyday life, and he sees in his sleep, rooms with heavy red curtains and chevron floors, benevolent giants and mysterious dwarves, Laura whispering clues to him...
But we are in a dream too, with owls, women with logs in their arms, coffee and pies and secrets hidden in the supposed bliss of the city.
It was from this series that I fell in love with Kyle Mac Lachlan. It was from this series that a great chapter in my film history began, my love for David Lynch and surrealist cinema. you could say that Dale Cooper took me by the hand and asked me : Fire, walk with me?
I know I left some many good series from the 90s. Promise to do another post.
Thank you for reading!
