Last month I wrote about a Netflix series called “The Program” which was recommended by my daughter. The show explained how a few individuals made a fortune promising to straighten out troubled teens in special schools that were one part boarding school and one part cult.
Last week my daughter recommended another program thinking I might find it equally interesting. It’s called “Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV” and it focuses on Nickelodeon from the mid-90s until about a decade or so later.
The program combines a lot of different information about what was going on at Nickelodeon, most of it bad. But the bad ranges from the troubling to the upsetting to the outright criminal. But let’s just start with the criminal because that in itself is like a conservative’s worst expectations of Hollywood come to life.
Through the course of the show, we learn there were three different…
