nss 90s: 10 tv series to bingewatch now #tbt fever
Now that the summer is about to end, the TV series season is about to start again.
So, before losing your mind for Kidding, the new project by Michel Gondry starring Jim Carrey, for the lysergic Maniac with Emma Stone and Jonah Hill or for the science fiction The First with Sean Penn, what better period to revisit or discover for the first some of the 90s TV series that shaped the TV series that we are used to seeing today in the Netflix era?
nss has chosen the most enjoyable, easy and exciting, but also those that have given life to characters who have become iconic and come back to the limelight thanks to the nostalgia effect and Instagram fever.
An example? Members of the Friends crew are so popular that they are almost our relatives, Tata Francesca is the ultimate fashion icon according to @WhatFranWore and the outfits worn by the Beverly Hills 90210 crew and the Party of Five family look like the asos catalog and they are the inspiration for thousands of millenials and designers.
And then how can you watch 13 seasons of Grey's Anatomy but never an episode of E.R. aka the progenitor of all modern medical drama?
If these reasons are not enough, let yourself be pushed by curiosity. Many of these titles, in fact, are going to have a reboot and each of the new versions will be reworked with a strong multi-ethnic imprint, which will transform the Halliwell sisters and the Salinger siblings into Latin American girls and boys, while the vampire slayer in a powerful black queen.
From Buffy - The Vampire Slayer to Beverly Hills 90210, from Charmed to The Nanny, which one is your favourite?
Beverly Hills, 90210 (1990 - 2000)
Plot.
Three sisters. Prue (Shanner Doherty), Piper (Holly Marie Combs) and Phoebe (Alyssa Milano), the Halliwell.
Three witches. One with the power to move objects with the mind, one to block time, the last to predict the future.
Together, helped by their white angel, Leo (Brian Krause), they have the duty to stop evil and make good triumph.
When Prue dies (also here as in Beverly Hills 90210 everyone hates Shannen Doherty), a half-sister appears, Paige, played by Rose McGowan (lately on the record for the Weinstein case).
About.
"The power of three will set us free".
This was the mantra that repeated the Halliwell girls and it was nice to see how the "sisterhood" had the power to reestablish the good in the world.
Maybe not the best series in the world, but very enjoyable to watch, with magic, memorable outfits (even here for good or evil), that cool guy of Cole (Julian McMahon, later become famous with Nip / Tuck) and a complicity between women, a little funny but profound.
What else do you want from a few hours of a 90s show?
Fun Facts
Charmed has not been broadcast since 2006, but the hype around the project has never decreased, so much so that the story continued in a series of comics published by Zenescope Entertainment and in 41 novels inspired by the universe of the TV series, of several authors, including Constance M. Burge, the creator of the show.
