The key to their appeal lies in the distinctive blend of traditional and innovative comedic tropes, coupled with uniquely British ideas and themes. The allure of these British comedies often lies in their depiction of everyday life through a humorous lens, seasoned with an array of popular ...
Soap, a groundbreaking sitcom from the late 70s, cleverly satirized soap opera tropes with its outrageous storylines and larger-than-life characters. The show follows the lives of two sisters and their respective families, the Tates and the Campbells, navigating through infidelity, amnesia, alien ab...
the phenomenal — and phenomenally successful — TV adaptation of Sally Rooney’s best-selling novel. At times beautiful, at others brutal, the love story we find here between Marianne (Edgar-Jones) and Connell (Mescal) — two young people from opposite sides of a class divide who bare their...
Not only have creators Matt and Ross Duffer — aka the Duffer brothers — repurposed 1980s tropes of friends going on adventures who end up saving the world, but they’ve created a next generation of stars (Millie Bobby Brown, Joe Keery, Maya Hawke and Noah Schnapp, among others) with ...
Eric Andre is exceptional at taking typical TV tropes, warping them with his incredibly weird mind, and releasing a product that seems familiar up until you see someone vomiting on a table and then eating it. Andre’s comedy shocks viewers and forces them to sit through ridiculously ...
Season 3 cemented the series as a masterwork that should not be doubted, so we can't wait to find out what else the kids (and their folks) get into when Stranger Things 4 comes along to reimagine some more time-honored tropes from your favorite '80s movies. –Amanda Bell...
78. Bob's Burgers Creator Loren Bouchard was already animation royalty well before Bob’s Burgers, having brought cult classic series like Home Movies and Lucy: The Daughter of the Devil to the small screen. Taking the working-class Belcher family as its focus, Bob’s Burgers is ostensibly ...
Olaf. While all four women are tropes, the genius of the show – and the incredible performances at its center – was that all had depth and tenacity, and their bond was of a kind that all viewers, regardless of gender, wanted with their own pals and confidants. Lisa Simpson (Yeardley ...
78 Everett Collection Shows to Binge-Watch: "How to Get Away With Murder" Annalise Keating is a brilliant and seductive law professor who teaches a class called "How to Get Away With Murder." She selects a group of students to assist her with real-life criminal cases at her firm, exposi...
WKRP’s funniest festive episode is a spin on a number of old festive tropes, but it puts them to such good use that it’s hard to complain. A prime example of the “found family” ambience so often evident in classic workplace sitcoms, we find the radio station team pull together to...