Television today is very much broken.
Between eight-episode seasons with two-year waits in between and the industry’s trigger-happy approach to green-lighting and canceling shows, our current landscape is bleak at best. The rise of streaming has led to a radically different TV world than we had 10 years ago. Don’t get me wrong, streamers like Max, Hulu, and Netflix have great shows for the most part, but their business model is just too short-term focused, designed to combat churn, to suggest a hopeful future.
The show redefined the word “trauma” on television; every scene felt like a life-or-death situation, and every wound was seen with unabashed earnestness — well, for the time, at least.
The show marked a before-and-after for medical television, inspiring a thousand copycats, including the still-going Grey’s Anatomy, a dying patient who refuses to let go. It’s easy to see the medical genre nowadays and dismiss it as cheap, low-stakes drama with increasingly dumb situations. But ER stands out as the original, the one that started it all and, against all odds, kept its head high for over 10 years, a feat that seems even more impressive today.
The Opening Scene of Friends Throughout 10 seasons, Friends produced 236 episodes full of laughter, silliness, and countless guest stars — everyone guest-starred on the show, from Julia Roberts to Bruce Willis to the late Robin Williams. In more ways than one, Friends was the last great sitcom; not “great” in the way you’d say The Sopranos is “great,” but rather “great” in the way you say the MCU is.
First was CBS’ Touched by an Angel, starring Roma Downey as Monica, an angel sent to Earth to help people struggling with different situations, reminding them that God loves them and there’s always a way forward. Unapologetically Christian and deceitfully moralistic, Touched by an Angel was one of the mid-1990s’ most surprising success stories.
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