Dark Side of the '90s

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.

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.

It's so politically driven and most episodes of season 2 are boring. Wtf were they thinking? There's so many interesting stories and public figures from the 90's! I don't wanna hear about UFC for two hours.

I thought this series was pretty good, I'd definitely watch more if there is a third season.

However I felt I would have enjoyed it a lot more if I was born a little sooner... Being born in the 90s, I know *of* a lot of these stories from the media, I am familiar with them all but I was basically a babe at the time. I don't really feel the same sense of nostalgia.

I agree with others, certain stories could definitely have been left out and replaced with... better ones. I felt the same way about the original dark side series itself though. There was also a lacking in the 'dark side' aspect, it was more just a normal docuseries.

I would love it a lot more if they did an early 2000s version of this show, I think that would be pretty great for those of my generation. Of course it's biased and I am sure everyone would prefer a version of their own youth.. The only thing I have seen is a natgeo docuseries on disney about the 2000s and that one is super dull and slow yet short, I think that the dark side would do a much better job of it.

I've only watched season one so far and I've enjoyed the episodes. I'm a child of the 80s and 90s so watching this is like being back in the 90s being nostalgic for some of the best times of my youth. It's also a refreshing and deeply reflective experience, looking at the era with different lens now being much older and thanks to some information this documentary presents that I didn't know about at the time.

Like some reviewers pointed out, there are details that are left out in the episodes, and the series could probably have done better. But for a docuseries covering such a wide range of topics that spanned a decade, I think it did well.

I particularly enjoyed the episode on the Viper Room with information surrounding the scenes at the club that I'd never heard until now. I was a huge fan of River Phoenix from when I was a preteen in the late 80s after being struck by his raw and beautiful performance in Stand By Me, and his death, which happened when I was in high school was a traumatic event for the then-seventeen-year old girl. Three decades later my heart still aches when I think about him and his life cut too short. So many interviews and articles written about his life and death that I read or watched over the years and they always left questions. This documentary helped to fill that void. It was heartbreaking to remember it once again but thanks to the interviewees who were the regulars of the club and their stories of what kind of place it really was, I have more clarity and understanding. So thanks in particular for this episode.