An Elder Millennial’s Guide to Classic Singapore TV & Movies
about 45 months ago (08/20/2020)
An Elder Millennial’s Guide to Classic Singapore TV & Movies | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles August 20, 2020 By Joel Tan Okay, as if we needed another existential crisis during the Pandemic of 2020, more than a hundred classic Singapore TV shows and movies just got dumped on Netflix . For our younger Gen Z readers who grew up when terrestrial television in Singapore was already a joke-category 1 Purists are undecided on when exactly Singapore TV died, but I think 2007, when Phua Chu Kang wrapped, and 2015, when Tanglin started, might be a good gauge. There is a lot to be said about the feverish creativity and boldness of TV in the ’90s, and of the ’90s in general.