I think the golden era of TV in general was back in the 90's. The last reminents of quality TV was in the early 00's(barring CID of course). From then on, TV has becoming nothing but a money-making industry, with no consideration about for quality entertainment for viewers at all. These so called youth shows are so terrible, it makes the youth look like some kind of immature teenagers flirting around, not giving a damn about studies. Basically, they don't look into the depth of life in general, I mean, there's more to life than flirting around with guys/girls. And the content nowadays is ridiculous and unrealistic! The common man cannot relate to it at all! Either the stories are in the backdrop of a really poor society or very rich one! I mean, the thought of it is nice, but firstly they should have a solid script to back it up, and secondly they should have proper characterization. Every soap has a bitchy character to add some 'masala'. And the poor audience has been forced to tolerate such crap, and the mind has gradually adjusted to such crap, now most people consider this as 'normal'. Soaps from the 90's though, were more realistic, much more relatable, with solid characterization to go with them. There was no such arrogance or an OTT sensation one feels the moment one sees a particular scene.I wish I was much older in the 90's, so I could catch hold of some of the other wonderful shows some of the other older members here have experience, but alas😔 I Anyways, I don't enjoy watching soaps anyways, because according to me, you can learn something from everywhere, even if it is the 'idiot box'. Anyways, I most particularly enjoy watching thrillers, and horror shows, and therefore, nowadays keep a tab on what thriller/horror show comes where. Even in this dull trend in Indian TV, there have been some noteworthy thrillers, but unfortunately they were discontinued due to lack of interest in thrillers. I however, enjoyed them thoroughly. I also watch singing/dance reality shows once in a while, and watch DID nowadays. Quite enjoyable, although the usual ritual of rigging comes into play. But such shows are for pure entertainment, nothing more nothing less.
Anyways, there have been a lot of brilliant thrillers during this dull time too, and I hope people finally realize the facade they are living in. Fortunately, there are such enterprises such as YRF that help in this step. The timings of such shows don't help though. But they are quite well-made, and even the soaps are technically 'soaps', they don't have that gimmick and OTT feelings in them, they are straight to the point and realistic. Such shows and more are needed to bring back the 90's of TV.
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