Few television programs can claim to have the cultural resonance that thirtysomething did in the late 1980s. Winner of four Emmy Awards, the groundbreaking hour-long drama held up a mirror to a generation of young adults struggling to find a larger meaning to their existence in an era marked by rampant consumerism and the yuppie ethos. The show focused on the domestic and professional lives of a group of young urban professionals—some married, some single, some successful, some struggling—living in Philadelphia at the height of the Reagan years.