5 ’90s TV Shows You Should Binge Just Because The Cast Is So Damn Hot
There are lots of reasons to watch TV. The action, the comedy, the fact we’re hopelessly addicted to reality television about marriage-based social experiments. But one of my personal fave reasons to watch TV is to thirst over hot cast members.
Celebrities are hot. They’ve always been hot, they probably always will be hot and they’ve literally always made television shows better just because they’re so damn hot.
We’d set ourselves on fire if it meant we could touch KJ Apa’s abs and Chris Hemsworth’s hair can make or break a movie. But because we’re very thirsty and also very dedicated to pop culture, we think it’s time to pay tribute to some OG thirst traps.
Here are 5 of the best ’90s TV shows that are still totally worth watching today because the cast is 👏 so 👏 damn 👏hot.
1. The X-Files
The new seasons of this sci-fi thriller are garbage, trash, irresponsible. But the original ’90s TV show is a beautiful cult classic with beautiful people doing beautiful things.
The beautiful people are David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson, two of the recurring guests of my wildest fantasies. The sexual tension between their Mulder and Scully is so thick you could cut it with a scalpel, just like Scully does when she performs any kind of medical procedures that make her look very hot and very authoritative.
2. Xena: Warrior Princess
This is a spinoff from the Hercules TV show but let’s be honest, it’s way hotter so it’s more important.
The brief synopsis is that Lucy Lawless and Renee O’Connor run around in a lot of crop tops fighting gross men and saving the world. Karl Urban runs around shirtless as the world’s sexiest Cupid. The stunts are cringy and the dialogue is the over-the-top but everyone is sexy so who cares?
Also, I will die on this hill proclaiming that Xena and Gabrielle were secretly banging.
3. Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Buffy the Vampire Slayer was like the ’90s version of Riverdale, but with vampires and demons. Buffy and the gang fought evil while trying to get through high school and uni – and they had some steamy romances along the way.
I swear every single member of the main cast had at least one shirtless scene and that’s the kind of Quality Content the world needs more of.
4. Twin Peaks
Watching this show can sometimes feel like a fever dream but when it’s not breaking your mind, Twin Peaks is making it up to you with a cast of iconic ’90s heartthrobs.
You’ve got baby Kyle MacLachlan, Mädchen Amick, Dana Ashbrook, Sherilyn Fenn and Lara Flynn Boyle, who literally all grew up to be silver foxes and vixens.
In the show, everyone is very sexy and very conniving, so even when you’re not 100% sure what’s going on, you’re enjoying the ride.
5. Sex and the City
Carrie Bradshaw is a mess, but she’s a hot mess. Truth be told, I’ve only seen a handful of Sex and the City episodes but I love it every time I watch late-night reruns in a hotel room on a work trip. Every episode has been 100% relationship drama and a token 10% of literally anything else.
It was the golden era of Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Cynthia Nixon and John Corbett before he was the sexy dad in To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before, and I have it on very good authority that many people would get it on with Mr Big.