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This Dark Comedy Flips The Sitcom Format On Its Head
At this point, it seems like sitcoms have explored every avenue possible, and have become so full of overdone tropes that they're just not as successful of a TV genre as they used to be. There haven't been many sitcoms in recent years that have hit the heights of popularity that shows like Friends or How I Met Your Mother did. A lot of people have brought attention to the harmful tropes that often get repeated in these shows, and many criticize the very idea of a laugh track, stating that it makes a joke less funny when the show has to tell the audience when to laugh.