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Originally Posted by nunnehi
lol, wtf kind of strawman is that? Do you think Nurse Jackie is a comedy?
Almost every drama has funny moments. If you think that laughing at people (like how a bully pushing a kid and making him drop his books is funny) is what makes comedy then okay, but that's not how this show is presented. I'm genuinely confused about what it considers itself. It's taking itself too seriously to be parody, and the situations fall much closer to a dramedy than a comedy. Just because a show features funny people does not necessarily mean it's 100 percent intended as comedy.
Beavis and Butt-head and Office Space were very clearly comedies, but this really isn't so clear. We'll need a few more episodes to judge what it is. From the original trailer, I thought it was a comedy. When I watched a more in depth behind the scenes piece, I did not come away with the impression that it was necessarily intended as a comedy. It almost seems like a serious mockumentary type show featuring people who can play the necessary comedic caricatures without shame when necessary.
I haven't seen B&B but Office Space and Idiocracy are obviously comedies, however they're also clearly more than that. I think there are two types of comedy movies, story and theme driven movies that are funny, and movies that set out to be 'just a comedy'. Anchorman would be an example of the latter, there's no 'point' to it except entertainment, whereas Office Space and Idiocracy are the former. I think this is going to play out in a similar vein. It's not the same as a typical TV comedy but if this show was a film I'd have no problem labeling it, like Office Space, a comedy. If Office Space was on TV, I think you could call it a dramedy as well but this isn't TV, this is HBO.
I trust that Judge has a plan for this show so I'm hopeful that the problems brought up about not needing a team, or this kind of team at least, for the startup will be addressed or prove to be a non-issue.