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Sitcoms suck, and while there are individual ones that break that rule, it doesn't make it worth the effort of watching new ones
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Do you just mean the typical laugh-track sitcom, as opposed to other types?
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Those are the ones that led me to that opinion, but even the less typical ones and ones without laugh tracks get the stink eye too
Tbh, even the ones I like, that hold up over time, they're just the ones that set up most of what made sitcoms so dead. Most of those were finished before I was even born though, and they still have the same kind of flaws.
I respect when shows try to break out of it all, but any time a show is situation comedy, it inherently limits what they can do. I think one of the best examples of that is always sunny. They broke a lot of the old rules, but it's still so constrained by having to work within its situation that it still ends up masturbatory in its structure as it progresses.
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