Ko Yu-fen says, however, that times have changed. Linguistic and historical conditions politicized Taiwanese drama. There had always been controversy over it. But the political significance faded, and, with the daughter-in-law series beginning in 1995, Taiwanese drama became embroiled in a very different controversy-that it was oversimplified and stereotypical, and that the clock had been turned back to the early days of Taiwanese-language programming.
「語言與歷史的情節使得鄉土劇的播出被泛政治化，鄉土劇一路走來可說是『眾聲喧嘩』，但在政治熱潮後，一九九五年叱吒八點檔的《媳婦系列》，鄉土劇又遇到另一個爭論──情節粗鄙而刻板化，似乎又回到早年台語劇的年代」，柯裕棻說。