This was one of the best shows and one of the few on (the then named) )SciFi channel I never missed. I still vaguely remember when the reruns stopped and we are going back a ways. But time moves on and so do trends. This show borrows A LOT from Quentin Tarantino and his obsession with 70s entertainment and glib portrayals of violence. The entire show feels like a buddy buddy cop show from the 70s but modernized like Tarantino did with Jackie Brown. The show borrows A LOT from popular movies from the 90s too. The first episode is a HEAVY nod to Usual Suspects, another was a HEAVY nod to the movie The Vanishing, another was a HEAVY nod to Run Lola Run, there was even a scene of someone getting tortured by a sex perv similar to the scene in Pulp Fiction. I remember thinking Big Lebowski (the part where one of the characters dumbly destroys a car) but those are the ones I easily remember. Others who saw more movies back then would spot more, I am sure. The better episodes reflected 90s culture without going too far into borrowing like the wrestling episode (why wrestling became such a national past time again like during the peak of WWF in the 80s, i will never know, it isnt nearly as big now as it was when GvsE was made with wrestlers writing national best selling autobiographies, Mankind's book sold millions and he is in one of these episodes) and my favorite episode, Cougar Pines which was a reference to Tiger Woods (that episode borrows a bit from Happy Gilmore too)
This show was clever at the time but now it makes me cringe and feel ashamed like fans of disco probably did 10 years after that craze of polyester leisure suits, overly blown dried hair, blow, pina coladas and gawdy gold chains died out. When these 90s trends inevitably become popular again (hopefully that doesn't include nu-metal next time) this show will get a new life but until then, it can stay a memory.
This show was clever at the time but now it makes me cringe and feel ashamed like fans of disco probably did 10 years after that craze of polyester leisure suits, overly blown dried hair, blow, pina coladas and gawdy gold chains died out. When these 90s trends inevitably become popular again (hopefully that doesn't include nu-metal next time) this show will get a new life but until then, it can stay a memory.