he walks out of the room, he goes into another interrogation room and he breaks the door in two with his fist. and i m choking up talking about 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. will they be bolder than what we see today? oh, assuredly, assuredly they will be. the 90s gave us several shows that didn t explode in the ratings, but were 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 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.
and the simpsons i think in some senses was inspired by not necessarily hatred of television, but a distrust of a lot of the ways in which television was talking to us. tv respects me. it laughs with me. not at me. you re stupid. doh! i think the sitcoms of the 80s were such a warm, safe, humor. i love you guys. the kids, they listen to the rap music, which gives them the brain damage. and i think there was a real yearning for another type of humor. we were able to spoof fatherhood what a bad father. which at the time, and i stress at the time, was bill
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 it the abc network launched a new series that was none of those things. twin peaks is already described by one critic as the series that will change tv. it s directed by david lynch. david lynch was a filmmaker known for his taste in the eccentric and memorable. the idea that he would do television in the 90s was crazy. do you watch much of it? i like the idea of television, but i m too busy to see very much of it. what do you think of that which you do see? some of it i really enjoy. are you being diplomatic? sort of. [ screaming ]
the beautiful thing about television is you have the chance to do a continuing story. and that s the main reason for doing it. i think that twin peaks with the initial attention it got allowed all the other networks to say, let s do something different. the day is coming. it ain t going to be long when you ain t going to have to leave your living room. no more schools, no more tabernacles. no more cineplexes, all right? you re going to snuggle up to your fiberoptics and bliss out. you can check the successful creators trying to figure out how they can do things different than five or ten years ago. sometimes it led to challenging network television cool and fun to watch and sometimes it seemed to fall off the edge a little bit. let s be careful at the time he was a very
ain t no tears coming from my eyes. those eyes are brimming with tears. they had so many african-american characters in the cast that on several occasions they were the only people on camera interacting with one another. and that sounds like, so? but as late as the 90s, that wasn t done on television. when a cop shoots somebody, he stands by. he picks up the radio mic and calls it in. he stands by the body. if not, cops are no better than anybody else. in the 90s, television was getting more complicated, stories were starting to become more episodic and characters were starting to develop and change. none of that happened on law & order. this was a show that completely delivered on its formula every time. you get a crime, you got the investigation into the crime. you better be packing more than a dirty mouth. you got an arrest. what s the charge? hey, i m asking you a question. what s the charge? there s no charge. this one s on us. then you had a trial.