Dark Side of the '90s

I mean, it's not wrong and pretty much sums up a lot of the 90's influences but more focused on American events for the most part.

That said, it will FOREVER irk me that they always try to say "Beverly Hills 90210 was the first groundbreaking show about real teens" when Degrassi was already doing that before they ever showed up.

Watching Jason Priestly, being Canadian, agreeing with this bs in the documentary is just rich.

So I like this show, it's fun 90s nostalgia. It's not very different from other 90s decade docuseries done in the past by CNN or Vh1. The title implies it would be about something "dark sided" but it's not really. Some of the dark sided stuff seems like a stretch. I presume they're just doing it for branding purposes since Vice has other docuseries like "Dark Side of the Ring". Ooooioo.

I felt nostalgic watching this series and it had some nice stories but I also felt like something was missing here. They only had 10 episodes so they had 10 stories to present to represent the entire decade of the 1990s, yet they went with stories like Beanie Babies, sock puppet or some night club in Los Angeles out of all the interesting topics they could have picked.

Also episodes felt drawn out and repetitive. The people they interviewed in each episode were knowledgeable about their topic but they all repeated the same things over and over. The storytelling in these episodes could have been a lot tighter.

This show is by no means a bad one. The biggest flaw is that it tends to skew facts in order to fit a current year topic.

Unlike Dark Side of The Ring where it is presented impartially: some facts may be omitted/edited in order to tell the complete story overall; this show tells its own version of history from a certain point of "view". History dictates A leads to B leads to C. In this show A leads to C.

An example would be the Jerry Springer show somehow lead to Columbine. Columbine happened in 1999 and the narrator advocated to why schools allowed students to have access to guns? They conveniently failed to mention the Gun Free Schools Act of 1994.

Again, not a bad show, the topics are interesting and a fun stroll through memory lane but filtered facts bring it down.

Arbitrarily found out about this show on YouTube because someone posted an episode about the Viper Room. I had to research it to find it. Loved every episode on demand so far. They should do more to advertise this series. It's great, but I didn't know it existed.