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domino harvey wrote: Sun Aug 03, 2025 7:36 pm Is the What We Do in the Shadows TV series worth watching? Just noticed five former Newsradio writers (plus Tom Scharpling) have penned episodes, so the pedigree is there. But I can’t say this an IP that interests me much from the outside looking in

I thought season 1 is preferable to the movie, and pretty funny. Diminishing returns from there.

It has its moments (particularly the first two seasons) but Zot! (and series creator Taika Waititi!) are right that it went on far too long. The energy vampire Colin Robinson though is one of the best characters of any American sitcom (at least until they ran out of ideas of what to do with him).

I’m looking up what some of the other writers from the peak of NewsRadio have been up to and discovered that, according to Wikipedia, Alan J Higgins is credited with writing 99 episodes of Mike and Molly wtf

And co-creator of "Bob Hearts Abishola"? A show I've never heard or seen anyone admit to watching.

Matt wrote: Mon Aug 04, 2025 2:41 am And co-creator of "Bob Hearts Abishola"? A show I've never heard or seen anyone admit to watching.

CBS’ entire programming slate lost me after around 1998. Call me a “coastal elite”, but I can live without shit like The Neighborhood, Bob Hearts Abishola, and whatever other crappy three-camera sitcoms they’re shitting out

There was in interesting exchange on the commentaries for one of the later seasons where the writers discuss the rise of non-laugh track sitcoms like the Office and there was a clear split between those writers who embraced it and those who admitted they could only think of TV comedy in three camera format. This is presumably an organic evolution of that mindset divide

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