Personal 11 Dec 2003 10:30 pm
thirtysomething
I was going through some old tapes recently, and found three episodes of thirtysomething hidden in one of them. They happened to be the one when Gary tries to get tenure at the university, the one when Michael and Hope go away for the weekend and leave their baby with Nancy, and the one when they discuss having a second baby and Hope finds an old journal in their attic.
They were originally broadcast in 1988 (that is, Michael and Hope’s baby is now probably in high school) and I recorded them in December of 1995. That means that it took me eight years, almost to the day, to watch the episodes I recorded. Talk about procrastinating…
But the fun thing is… when I recorded them, I was a twenty-something (and when they first aired I was a teenager!). I was attracted to that show because the producers, Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick, also produced the short-lived (and great) show My So-Called Life, which I greatly enjoyed. I recorded the episodes because they aired very late in the night. But the fact that they sat undisturbed for eight years on that tape can probably tell us that I wasn’t really hooked at that time.
Well, now I am a thirty-something, and I did watch the episodes. And I think I can relate to those people. I’d like to see a show like that nowadays; a show about “real” people in their 30s who are not like the guys in Friends or the girls in Sex and the City; just, you know, regular people.
I guess the chances of that happening are very close to zero, though.
