in the 90s you suddenly had shows that were aiming at a young audience. one of the things that really made 90210 stand out is it was one of the first dramas to really get into the teenager s point of view. do you have protection? of course. it s always been my problem. lots of protection, but no one to protect. i wanted to do a tv series that was going to be relevant to teenagers and it s not about the parents solving the kids problems. it s about the kids basically solving their own problems. what are we supposed to do, sit him down have, a kid-to- parent talk? no. you can t talk to parents on that mature level, tragic but true. if the 60s had beatle mania, the 90s had 90210 mania and when tv guide had its youth quake cover, that was a sign television was focused on these young people. my so-called life was like the
now. finally, he gets the confession, he gets the signed statement. he walks out of the room, he goes to 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. 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
which was making my days feel like an uphill battle. and i don t like going uphill. that is, until i discovered something different, quviviq - a once-nightly fda -approved medication for adults with insomnia. not getting enough sleep was leaving me tired. oh come on! wait, wait! and slowing me down during my days. on your left! making even the things i love difficult. but quviviq helped me get more sleep. quviviq works differently than medication you may have taken in the past. it s thought to target one of the biological causes of insomnia: overactive wake signals. and when taken every night, studies showed that sleep continued to improve over time. so now that i m getting more sleep, things are going back downhill. in a good way. do not take quviviq if you have narcolepsy. don t drink alcohol while taking quviviq or drive or operate heavy machinery until you feel fully alert. quviviq may cause temporary inability to move or talk or hallucinations while falling asleep or waking up.
they re equals, and in a way they ve kind of switched gender stereotypes. because the character i play, mulder, is the intuitive one. and scully is the rationalist, the doctor. a lot of folks who enjoyed the x-files who otherwise didn t watch tv might have been drawn to the show by its, for lack of a better way to put it, stick it to the man ethos. don t trust the government, don t trust big business. don t trust anybody but yourself and your friends and family, i guess. it s a message that s somewhat dark and cynical, but was kind of a breath of fresh air in the early 90s. the 90s was a time of conspiracies. and the internet was starting to spread beyond just like hard-core computer users. so you could have message boards and usenet news groups. and everybody wanted to talk about the black oil and the bees and mulder s sister and what the cigarette smoking man was up to. i would go to alt.tv/x-files. and people were so nuts for this
trust. i ll take that statue of justice too. sold. when they make fun of how fox works you are watching fox. we are watching fox. they are telling you, don t trust us either. eat my shorts. all right. i ll eat eat your shorts? the simpsons is like shakespeare in the sense that we quote the simpsons all the time, very often without knowing it. excellent! i wish i could create something that culturally indelible. it s unlike anything else tv has ever run. twin peaks showed up out of nowhere at the beginning of the decade. 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