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The $400-million-plus reason your favorite TV shows are exiting Netflix and maybe HuluĪfter seeing Netflix eat away at their TV businesses, legacy media are targeting the streaming rights for classics like “Seinfeld” and “The Office.”Ī dead wife and mother, along with a runaway bride variation, are baked into Netflix’s Nashville-set sitcom-with-songs “Country Comfort,” starring Katherine McPhee ( “Smash,” “Scorpion”).
By the second episode of “Mary Tyler Moore,” Mary Richards might as well have been working at WJM for a year. But these are just prologues to be forgotten as the routine that makes sitcoms feel like life takes over. A runaway bride joins her friend and her friend’s friends in New York a runaway bride moves in with her gay best friend in New York a fussy divorced man moves in with his messy divorced friend in New York. A new job, a new town, a new job in a new town. Situation comedies typically begin at a moment of change.
All but one are explicitly about family and the other works as a metaphor for it. All but one are shot old-school, multi-camera, laugh-tracked, live-audience style. Indeed, we have fallen behind in covering them - so let’s look at several that have recently premiered or are about to. In the pandemic year, they have amazingly kept coming, even as the pandemic itself is not pictured in them or is briefly acknowledged as a thing that’s over. But we see ourselves in sitcoms and as a bonus, laugh. It isn’t that life can’t be gritty or hard, but TV rarely pictures the gritty hard lives people actually lead. And yet the big intellectual content bidding wars of the streaming age have been over comedies - “Friends,” “The Office,” “Seinfeld.” They leave an impression as great or greater than the Quality Dramas upon which the reputation of Titanium Age television rests. There is some truth in it examples, at any rate, may be found to confirm one’s worst opinion of the form. So central to our culture and so often mocked - made the emblem of television at its least imaginative and most imitative, at its tritest and tiredest. The great American sitcom! With its couches and kitchens, its upstage stairs and stage right doors.
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