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The Flash (1990) Review – Better Than Expected
The 2014 Flash series isn’t the first time the Scarlet Speedster had his own show. In 1990, CBS produced a single season of The Flash. Despite low production values and awkward design sensibilities of...
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Nickelodeon Guts – Super Bungee Nerf Olympics
Continuing the tradition of physically challenging kid game shows set by Double Dare and Wild & Crazy Kids, Nickelodeon cobbled together a few then modern idea into another insane concept. Guts, in...
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Sliders – More Botched than Firefly
Genre shows had difficult time through the 80s and 90s for a bevy a reasons. Technology aside, many were in the producers capability to fix. Occasionally, they’re not, such as unreasonable network...
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Goosebumps – You’re in for Mild Entertainment
Following in the footsteps of other, better children horror anthology shows in the 90s, Goosebumps brought the popular R.L. Stine books to life. While the books were a descent read for kids, the show...
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Quantum Leap – Ripe for Reboot
Genre shows didn’t come into their own until the early 2000s. Before that, any show needed to fit an easily copied template. Working in a genre beyond a base few required clever writing. Making the...
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Legends of the Hidden Temple – Kids Am Dumb
Kids are dumb. This isn’t some curmudgeonly adult speaking. This is something I realized watching Legends of the Hidden Temple. While many Nickelodeon game shows required a degree of talent, this only...
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Supermarket Sweep – Western Decadence
Kids don’t know how good they have it today. Content on demand, bah! I’ve lost count of the number of terrible shows I suffered through because there was nothing else on. Why watch anything you ask?...
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Double Dare – The Rise of Nickelodeon
Nickelodeon, though they’ve shied away from it over the years, was known for inundating kids with colorful gallons of slime and cream filled pies. It’s what made them famous. It’s what they built their...
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Tales from the Crypt – HBO Horror
Television horror for years focused on psychological scares, a la The Twilight Zone. Tales from the Crypt however, went for more of the grotesque. While there’s a bit of corniness to the show now,...
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MTV’s Liquid Television
Countless jokes have been made about the programming on MTV. The network launched as a platform for music videos. Slowly they moved away from that, showing more original programming, which mostly...
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