I’m remembering this specifically from a UK point of view, but definitely was the case for US TV also.

In the 90s I used to watch The X Files, Strange But True?, Fortean TV, Eerie Indiana… GhostWatch was a one-off that unfortunately I missed at the time.

There might be a couple of other shows I’m forgetting…

But looking back it seems cool to me that mainstream TV was so into “weird” stuff back then.

  • jagoan@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    IMO, this is largely due to TV shows have moved away from episodic, monster-of-the-week style, shows. Like Buffy, etc. The best we have recently are anthology style like Black Mirror. Honestly, I’d love it if Stranger Things made it monster-of-the-week rather than a whole season story arc.

    • bitcrafter@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Even Buffy eventually moved away from the MOTW format, and after a while I got sick of the ongoing convoluted arcs and lost interest in it. (I still need to watch the musical episode though…)

  • Default_Defect@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Remember shitty “magic” shows that didn’t even have to involve slight of hand because they would cover the camera’s view with a curtain and change the background picture of the space shuttle to a picture of an empty launch pad and act like they pulled some crazy shit off? I was like 7 and knew it was bullshit.