This Dark Comedy Flips The Sitcom Format On Its Head

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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.

One of the tropes that's often overdone on shows, particularly ones like Kevin Can Wait, is the immature, man-child husband and his responsible but stick-in-the-mud wife, who has to be no-nonsense and put up with all of his antics. This lets the male character (who is usually the protagonist) be the fun, goofy character that's beloved by the audience, while the wife comes off as kind of a nag and has no character traits outside of her marriage to this man. There is one show, however, that takes this trope and really shows how harmful it is, and tries to look at the world through the wife's perspective instead. Kevin Can F**k Himself is a smart and inventive take on a sitcom, and makes a lot of interesting commentary about the genre and the patriarchy at large.

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Kevin Can F**k Himself follows Allison McRoberts (played by Annie Murphy of Schitt's Creek fame), who is a woman who is trying to figure out her life while being married to Kevin, who is the epitome of that aforementioned rude and lazy sitcom husband. The show divides its time between two different perspectives: when Allison is with Kevin, the show is a sitcom,