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[โ€“] Skavau@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Do you just mean the typical laugh-track sitcom, as opposed to other types?

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.