Dark Side of the '90s

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.

They could've approached this in an unbiased manner and it could have been very well done and still somewhat accurate, but they just couldn't do it. The history is good about how things have happened, but the narration and perspective is inaccurate and biased. Too bad because there was a lot of promise of nostalgia for a teen of the 90's.

Loved the first season, lots of amazing insights about cultural events and trends and all that.

Dropped it from a 9 to 7, is due to Season 2 seems to a very heavy focus on social justice, I think someone came in and was a BLM activist.

Just feel like there is so much more to the 90s as it was in the first season, and the pivot is so sharp. The only episode of season 2 I like is the UFC origins one.

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.

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.