historically, women are often set up in narratives in which only one can succeed. and so showing women not competing with each other and as supporting each other was also an important narrative change. okay, girls, see you tomorrow. okay. night-night. the show had a message of freedom and liberation especially for women that really resonated. i think sex and the city helped make hbo a place for people to think, i wonder what they re doing next. create something new? our dell technologies advisors can provide you with the tools and expertise you need to bring out the innovator in you. my name is austin james. as a musician living with diabetes, fingersticks can be a real challenge. that s why i use the freestyle libre 2 system. with a painless, one-second scan, i know my glucose numbers without fingersticks. now, i m managing my diabetes better,
and a behavior that promoted all of the feelings that you would have for a guy that you love in a guy that you hate, you know. sopranos came on tv, and it really showed us the future, whether we realized that was going to be the future of television or not. this husband of yours, carmela, how much we love him. he s the best. oh, come on. he s like a father to me. just make sure nothing happens to him. that character in that show was a great inspiration for a great many shows that came after it, including one that i worked on. you know what i want, tony? i want those kids to have a father. they got one. this one. me, tony soprano, and all that comes with it. oh, you [bleep] the 90s is an amazing decade of tv. some of my favorite shows of all time aired in that decade, and everybody was watching them. there was still that communal sense from the earlier decades of tv, but it was being applied to shows that were reaching higher and farther, and they were great.
we were getting bomb threats. disney was really getting a lot of flack for even thinking about having a coming-out episode with ellen. i m 35 years old. i m so afraid to tell people. i mean, i just susan, i m gay. ellen coming out was a huge moment for me personally because, you know, i was a closeted gay guy. gay child at that time. and it was the bravest thing i saw. that felt great. that felt so great. initial reports suggests abc made a bundle on ellen s highly publicized outing on national tv last night. the broadcast was accompanied by coming-out parties all around the country, including one in birmingham, alabama, where the local abc station refused to broadcast the show. she did a great thing.
was, you can t get this anywhere else. you re a fantasy maker, the only limit on the kinds of fantasies is people s imagination. hbo turned to people who said, i can t do that on television, but you can do it on hbo. white people don t trust black people. that s why they won t vote for no black president. like a black brother will [ bleep ] up the white house. like the grass won t be cut. dishes piled up. cousins running through the white house. cookouts. basketball going in the back. in the late 80s hbo was just sort of gaining ground for series. by the 90s hbo had started 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.
i m out. what? yeah, i m out. i m out of the contest. ugly naked guy is having thanksgiving dinner with ugly naked gal. friends or seinfeld, you want me to choose? i can t answer that. it s so subjective. challenge accepted. contest. a contest? seinfeld will win, i think. giddy up. seinfeld was smart. seinfeld was a brilliant half hour of television. i loved seinfeld. seinfeld . seinfeld . you come to expect their dickishness. all right. seinfeld. oh, my gosh. seinfeld is my favorite all time show. you want to play rough? we can play rough. i love friends. i ve seen every episode of friends. one of my favorite shows of all time. so watchable. whoo whoo! friends. friends. friends. i really appreciated friends. one of the top all-time sitcoms, seinfeld, yeah. are we finished?