the pilot episode of that was one of the strangest and most exciting things i have ever seen. i m at the twin peaks county morgue. with the body of what was her name? it was incredible. just how slowly in the beginning the news spread around this little town that this young, beautiful girl had died and that haunting music was so dark and so beautiful. i ve got good news. the gum you like is going to come back in style. what on earth is essentially a art film doing in prime time television? american network television has long been considered the home of the blands, the cautious, and the predictable. so it was with some trepidation that the abc network launched a new series that was none of those things. twin peaks has already been described by one critic as the series that will change tv. it s directed by david lynch. david lynch was a filmmaker
to begin its explosion. when we started doing dream on, one of the things hbo said to us was, it s got to be something that couldn t be on network tv. because hbo was driven by subscribers and not by commercials and selling advertising time, they had a different way of looking at success or failure. what they were looking for was critical acclaim. you ve watched letterman, you ve watched leno, but what about larry? larry sanders, that is. he s the tv alter ego of comedian garry shandling. garry shandling wanted to do a show that deconstructed the kind of show the tonight show was. just pretend like you re talking to me till we re off the air so it won t seem weird. okay.
it right now, because that s how great a moment of tv that it is. 20 years from now, the best tv dramas, what do they look like? i don t know. i don t know whether will they be bolder than what we see today? oh, assuredly, assuredly they will be. the 90s gave us several shows that didn t really explode in the ratings but were very influential to other people making television. homicide is one of them. shell me with questions all night i m living in a danger zone homicide: life on the street was really innovative in terms of its style. it used music in ways that advanced the narrative, and it also used feature film directors that brought a look and style to the show that really stood out on television. tears coming out of your eyes. ain t no tears coming from my eyes. his eyes are brimming with tears. they had so many african
vehicle registration, please. just a sec. but the thing, officer, this isn t my car. there s the episode i remember where they get pulled over in a car. what? he is going to tell us to get out of the car. you watch too much tv. get out of the car. they have an interaction with a police officer that is horrible and racist in a lot of ways. and carlton has this epiphany about how money won t save him. no map is going to save you. and neither is your glee club or your fancy bel air address or who your daddy is. because when you re driving in a nice car in a strange neighborhood, none of that matters. they only see one thing. the writers of the fresh prince of bel air had a really hard task to approach these topics with nuance, and were doing it at a clip that was way ahead of their time. now don t touch that dial. we re about to flip it for you to one of this years most
same-sex marriage was legal. the tv shows weren t doing this. movies weren t doing this. i have to believe that all the pain that i m going through, that all the anger, all the frustration, that there s something bigger than that. aids has claimed a young man who made an enormous impact on a generation of young americans. pedro zamora died in miami today at the age of 22. i m really glad i got to know pedro zamora. i m grateful that his rich and fulfilling work is still remembered today. and i hope you enjoy and learn from pedro s life of compassion and fearlessness. you have to credit the real world with sort of helping the acceptance of the lgbt community. because there weren t many portrayals of gay people period on television at that point. her name is marla. i m seeing a woman. in the 90s, gay characters were always secondary or third. there was never a gay character that was the lead of a show. so you want to go look at