Emily Fox didn't set out to create a show about the 1990s when she wrote "Hindsight." She simply wanted to explore a question that everyone has consider at one point in life - What if you could go back in time and do it all over again?

Fox describes the marketing behind her show on VH1 as a "Trojan horse." The audience came to indulge in the '90s nostalgia, but found a compelling story about fate and free will.

"We beckoned people with something that mostly looks fun and looks like it will be trip down memory lane and then turns out to be something really profound," the creator and executive producer of "Hindsight" tells Headlines & Global News.

"That I think is reflective of the fact that this really wasn't designed initially to be a show about the 90s. It was designed to be a show about this girl and her experience and entertaining the fantasy of what would you do if you have a chance to correct the mistakes of your past."

Keep reading for further insight on what Fox has in store for her protagonist, Becca Brady (Laura Ramsey) as well as audience reaction, the culture-defining year of 1995 and why Becca will never buy stock in Apple or stop the attacks on the World Trade Center.

What has the audience response been to "Hindsight" as it nears the end of season one? 

It has been unbelievably rewarding and thrilling to see how much emotion has been stirred up from this show for so many people. It cuts this very broad flock across the two ends of this generation. For people who were little kids in the 90s, they're really responding to it because it takes them back to this idyllic childhood era and for people who were in college or high school during that era, it's also taking them back. It's sort of the one-two punch of the music and the wardrobe that's been stirring up a lot of really fond memories for people and it's been great fun to shepherd that and see people's reactions. Of course, in the age of social media, you get reaction immediately.

I heard you originally set the show later in the '90s. Did you have more to explore by pushing the date back to 1995?

We realized, by happy accident, that we had picked 1995 because it was a round number for her and for us. But 1995 really turned out to be this sunrise of the technological age that we live in [today]. It was a time when we really didn't have much more than pagers but looking back, there's sort of this moment, like a tipping point, to borrow from Malcolm Gladwell, before suddenly everyone was connected. It seemed now like that happened overnight.

The fact that it's set in the 90s is really just math. We needed a nice, clean even number of years to send Becca back and she was going back to the eve of this ill-fated first wedding, first marriage. The 90s grew up around that. One of the reasons that the show is so emotional and built around the characters experience is because it didn't start out like, "Oh, let's set a show in the 90s and just put some people in it." It was the opposite of that.

How does "Hindsight" differ from other TV shows and movies about time travel?

"Hindsight" was always meant to be a character piece and a portrait of a woman at a crossroads. In that sense, the time-travel is the device but it's not a story about time-travel. It's a story about this character. The whole purpose of stories like this is to show that as much as we love to entertain the notion of perfect knowledge, there is no such thing as perfect knowledge. This show is another example of how you can illustrate that. How you can take this woman's life and tweak it with all this knowledge but the knowledge is both a gift and a burden. She's enough of a control monster to think, "I know how it's going to go." But then she tries to make a change and it goes in a completely different direction. Then she's left feeling far afield of her original intention and not quite sure how to correct it.

Is there a reason Becca didn't spend more time trying to return back to the present when she arrived in the past?

We definitely wanted to have her stay and make a go of it. I think what is the biggest and most profound loss she has felt in her life is the loss of this friendship with Lolly. Going back to 1995 restores that and I think there is nothing that she wants to go back to as badly as she wants to stay here with Lolly. The fact that Lolly believes her, the fact that Lolly still loves her, and the fact that they're still friends is a thousand times more compelling than anything in her life in 2015.

Was there a discussion in the writer's room about incorporating major historical events that maybe Becca can't talk about?

The show was never designed to be a geo-political thriller. One young woman's quest is not meant to change the course of history. That's not the story we set out to tell. The plot would get so thick. A lot of people are like, "Why doesn't she buy stock in Apple?" First of all, she's seen "Back to the Future II." She knows you can't do that. The worst thing you can do with the opportunity to time-travel is to get rich quick. Everybody knows that.

We have deliberately tried to keep the scope of this story very intimate and keep it focused on her, her friends and family, and her decisions that are of a much more personal nature. You mess with one thing, you mess with everything and I think she learns that pretty quickly.

What's ahead in the final episodes?

The last few episodes are thrilling and devastating and funny and sad. What we will get to see are a lot of the ramifications of Becca's actions coming to bear and a lot of the consequences playing out. It's going to be fun to watch it all slip through her fingers and see how she deals with it. She's a very resourceful person and she's getting her sea legs in this familiar yet unfamiliar territory. She's got some help but she's really on her own. In that sense, she really is a proxy for all of us, going out into the world and trying to live on our own and figure it out. The ultimate quest for her and for everyone is how do I follow my heart and do the right thing at the same time. And is that possible? That's the question the series really is asking.

"Hindsight" airs on Wednesdays at 10 p.m. on VH1.