(“What do you mean a writer with only one article due a week and no side hustles could afford to live in her own apartment and buy $400 designer shoes on the regular in ‘90s-era Manhattan, that’s not fair,” sobbed the single, city-dwelling, 30-something year-old millennial author of this article after dodging another month of student loan bills.) These days though, Sex and the City mostly reads like an urban fairy tale. Ostensibly, this show about four single, successful ladies in their 30s living and loving in the big city was part of HBO’s gritty, hyper-realistic programming for the era, along with The Sopranos. Whether you love it or you kind of cringe over it now, there’s no denying that Sex and the City broke new ground when it premiered on HBO in 1998. It’s free and you can unsubscribe at any time. Get the latest on streaming, deals and more by signing up for our weekly newsletter. Here are 26 of the most incredible '90s TV shows you can watch for the first time-or fall in love with all over again-on HBO Max, Disney+ and other streaming platforms. The best ‘90s TV shows had it all: aliens, gangsters, great friends, wise-cracking cats, vampires with souls (before it was cool) and that’s only the tip of the iceberg. On any given night, you could tune into one of the major networks like ABC, NBC, or Fox and catch a family-friendly sitcom (like Fresh Prince of Bel-Air), an edgy teen drama (cue the Beverly Hills 90210 theme), or-if you were lucky enough to be a house with cable-channel surf over to HBO and follow groundbreaking shows like Sex and the City or Oz right from the beginning. From 1990 all the way up to the new millennium (or should I say, Willennium), television was positively glorious.

Some argue that it started in 1999 with the premiere of The Sopranos on HBO, while others contend that it really only kicked off circa 2008, thanks to shows like Mad Men, Breaking Bad and later, Game of Thrones.īut if you came of age during the 1990s, you know better. It’s hard to pin down when the Golden Age of Television really began. Purchases you make through our links may earn us a commission. Recommendations are independently chosen by Reviewed’s editors.

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