Wednesday, May 2, 2018

When sitcoms get serious: Grappling with the black-ish divorce episode

The "Very Special Episode" is not what it once was — and that is a very good thing. In the olden days, when sitcoms were consistently sitcommy, the VSE signaled a record-scratch tonal shift from aggressive cheeriness to subdued seriousness — often with stories involving drugs, creepy strangers, ...

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