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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