Dark Side of the 90s | |
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Genre | Documentary |
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Directed by | Richard Rotter |
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Composer | Orin Isaacs |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 2 |
No. of episodes | 20 |
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Running time | 60 min. |
Production company | Railsplitter Pictures/Insight Productions |
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Network | Vice on TV |
Release | July 15, 2021 August 9, 2022 | –
Dark Side of the 90s is a documentary television series created by Insight Productions and RailSplitter Pictures for Vice Studios that takes a look at popular culture of the 1990s. [3] It is a spinoff of Vice's Dark Side of the Ring series. [4] The first episode of Dark Side of the 90s aired on July 15, 2021. [5] [6] [7] The series is narrated by Mark McGrath.
Season | Episodes | Originally aired | ||
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First aired | Last aired | |||
1 | 10 | July 15, 2021 | September 16, 2021 | |
2 | 10 | June 14, 2022 | August 9, 2022 |
No. overall |
No. in season | Title | Subject(s) | Original air date | Viewers (millions) |
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1 | 1 | "Trash TV: Dirty & Deadly Talk" | The explosion of tabloid talk shows (including the critically derided yet popular ratings hit The Jerry Springer Show). | July 15, 2021 | N/A |
2 | 2 | "The Viper Room: Hollywood's Sanctuary" | Johnny Depp's The Viper Room and the death of River Phoenix. [8] | July 22, 2021 | 0.150 [9] |
3 | 3 | "TV for Teens" | The conception of Fox Network and its hit show Beverly Hills, 90210, and other shows geared at teens (one being Party of Five). | July 29, 2021 | 0.108 [10] |
4 | 4 | "Beanie Babies Go Bust" | The rise and fall of Beanie Babies' creator Ty Warner alongside the culture of collecting the successful toy line, [11] and the birth of E-commerce and eBay with 12th employee, Lina Trivedi [12] | August 5, 2021 | 0.080 [13] |
5 | 5 | "Grunge & The Seattle Sound" | Seattle, Sub Pop Records, and the start of the 1990s rock subgenre known as grunge. | August 12, 2021 | 0.081 [14] |
6 | 6 | "Baywatch: Sex Sells" | The popular TV series Baywatch and the controversies surrounding it (especially Pamela Anderson's sex tape with Tommy Lee). | August 19, 2021 | 0.160 [15] |
7 | 7 | "A Tale of Two Cults" | Coverage on both the Branch Davidians and Heaven's Gate cults. | August 26, 2021 | 0.086 [16] |
8 | 8 | "Hip Hop: The East Vs. West Media War" | The infamous East Coast-West Coast hip hop rivalry and the tragic consequences of it (the deaths of Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls). | September 2, 2021 | 0.099 [17] |
9 | 9 | "Secrets of The Runway" | The international success of supermodels and the dark secrets behind the scenes. | September 9, 2021 | 0.065 [18] |
10 | 10 | "Internet 1.0: Don't Believe the Hype" | The dot.com bubble during the Internet's early years. | September 16, 2021 | 0.077 [19] |
No. overall |
No. in season | Title | Subject(s) | Original air date | Viewers (millions) |
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11 | 1 | "Arseniooo Hall!" | The success of The Arsenio Hall Show to younger audiences before its downfall due to competition from Jay Leno and David Letterman alongside a controversial episode featuring Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan | June 14, 2022 | N/A |
12 | 2 | "MTV & The Real World" | MTV's 1992 debut of reality TV sensation The Real World and its impact on the channel | June 21, 2022 | N/A |
13 | 3 | "Cops: Bad Boys, Bad Boys" | The documentary TV show Cops featuring racial conflicts between white American police officers and lower class African-Americans. [20] | June 28, 2022 | N/A |
14 | 4 | "UFC Pt. 1: No Holds Barred" | The bloody "no rules" origin of Ultimate Fighting Championship. | July 5, 2022 | N/A |
15 | 5 | "UFC Pt. 2: To Live or Die in the Octagon" | UFC survives multiple attempts to ban it and becomes a mainstream sport. | July 5, 2022 | N/A |
16 | 6 | "Tabloid TV" | Tabloid journalism on television ( Hard Copy and A Current Affair) and the salacious stories they uncovered (among them the Amy Fisher saga) | July 12, 2022 | N/A |
17 | 7 | "Black Sitcoms' Last Laugh" | The successes of African-American sitcoms ( Living Single, Martin and The Fresh Prince of Bel Air) and In Living Color before falling into the pitfalls of fame. | July 19, 2022 | N/A |
18 | 8 | "The Rise of Rush Limbaugh" | Rush Limbaugh is conservative talk radio's first megastar, claiming to have talent on loan from God as he created a divide in America that is still unfolding 30 years on. | July 26, 2022 | N/A |
19 | 9 | "Y2K: Paranoia Will Destroy Ya" | At the end of the decade, the fear of an apocalypse looms (even for far-right militias) as two men become the stars of the real-life action thriller known as the Y2K scare. | August 2, 2022 | N/A |
20 | 10 | "Morning Show Wars" | Morning TV is the profit center of the news divisions that produce them with The Today Show and Good Morning America battling for dominance where there's no room for failure. | August 9, 2022 | N/A |