![]() As a result, we got some truly outstanding standalone hours and half hours of television. Instead, without the benefit of DVRs or TiVO, television shows lived and died by week to week viewing. This current wave of binge-able television and the serialized short-story approach weren’t yet popular. Throughout the 90s, the episode was king. Sitcoms enjoyed a peak run, dramatic storytelling was working within very specific parameters but churning out engaging, unforgettable arcs, and most importantly, it was the era of the episode. ![]() In fact, some of the television of the 90s served as direct precedents to the groundbreaking era we’re living in now. But just because television is going through a stellar stage doesn’t mean what came before is bad. Television right now is the best it’s ever been, and with so much content to sift through there’s almost too much great TV. It’s been said ad nauseum because, well, it’s true. We’re living in a second Golden Age of television.
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