Finally got the gumption to catch the 2nd season of Kominsky.

Most of the charm of it is still the performers. And it still manages to keep from seeming at all like a Lorre project, but the best part of S2 is the new blood in the narrative. Won't spoil, but it's a long-time favorite of mine who doesn't get enough love [perhaps, in my mind, CAN'T get enough]. And when you watch it, yes it's all artifice for the character.

All those shows are ass. Apologies to Dane’s friends but it’s network TV so I’m not their audience. Laugh-tracks are lame but I get their continued use.

Since this thread is kind of on point about whether sitcoms are about narrative or format or execution or . . . what. I recall at some point discussing that execution can Detoxing all in most cases, and this clip popped up in yt recommends and reminded me of that concept.

The narrative structure of 'miscommunication-->hijinks' is as old as TV and has been done by the best shows and the absolute worst shows. And this clip shows that, when written and executed well, it's still hilarious and you don't care how many times you've seen it before.

Jess thinks CeCe and Nick are thinking about having sex, but they are negotiating putting a popcorn machine in his bar.

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LMAO

I mean, they get REALLY hot.

"...I know what temperature it gets"

laugh tracks remind me of one of my all-time favorite IASIP episodes. For those not in the know, ISAIP always has GREAT macro level humor (not sure what it's called, but I dub it macro humor). in this episode, it's titled "The Gang Desperatiely Tries to Win An Award". The episode has the gang trying to figure out why their bar has never won an award; so they do some reconnaissance and go to a bar down the street that has won a ton of awards. The macro is IASIP show has never won any sort of award; so the entire episode is geared towards them taking jabs at the industry.

The bar they go to gather intel on is a perfect personification of all the garbage on TV / laugh tracks etc. This bar feels like "Friends" obviously. Later in the episode, they host an "Industry Night" at their bar and a few of their black friends show up, and they panic because the 'ratio is off'...Black bars never win awards.
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and of course, later Charlie high as a kite from huffing paint, makes a slight change to the original "Paddy's Pub" song he wrote for the Industry Night with this little Diddy. Which of course, is a giant FU to the entertainment industry.
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God damn I love that show LMAO. I currently have 115 episodes on my DVR that I watch all the time. I'm not pleased about Google deleting a few from my DVR however. the Lethal Weapon 5 & 6 episodes were gold. absolute gold. They deleted Dee's Martina Martinez and Taiwan Tammy episodes as well. lol.
Season 15 coming up.

Buy the physical copies

Tonight must have been chuck lorre night on CBS

Sheldon
AL
Mom
B Positive

Just finished Michael Douglas' The Kominsky Method it was good stuff. Very meta with Paul Reiser and Romancing The Stone alums Kathleen Turner and Danny Devito.


I'd knock off the cob webs off Jane Seymour's pussy!

I liked 2 Broke Girls a lot. Mainly for the eye candy