GAME-CHANGERS

FIVE MORE ’90s SHOWS THAT SHOOK UP THE SMALL SCREEN FOREVER

THE SEX-TALK ONE Sex And The City

Love it or hate it, there’s no denying that Sex And The City broke the mould with its depiction of women’s sex lives. Oral, anal, fetish, threesomes, adult toys, masturbation, STDS, – basically, if it was anything to do with sex, it was on SATC.

THE SURREAL ONE Twin Peaks

The log lady! The backward-stalking dwarf! Creator David Lynch and his massive hearing aids! The first show to bring off-the-scale weirdness to the small screen, Twin Peaks defined

Watercooler TV. Now pass us a slice of cherry pie… THE HARD-HITTING ONE Oz

The first one-hour drama serial produced by HBO tackled subjects such as drug abuse, horrific violence and male rape free from the constraints of mainstream broadcasting. Which accounted for HBO’S slogan at the time: “It’s not TV. It’s HBO.”

THE ONE ABOUT NOTHING Seinfeld

A quartet of cynical New Yorkers sit in a diner moaning about tipping, condiments and other minutiae of their daily lives. And that’s about it. But somehow this no-concept sitcom, became the number one show in America for much of the ’90s.

THE WORKING-CLASS ONE Roseanne

Far from TV’S other airbrushed middle-class families, Roseanne was the first show to realistically portray blue-collar life, warts and all, right down to Roseanne telling daughter Darlene to nick the cans of food she was collecting for school.