This week, we read a great article over at Vulture
on the state of the romantic comedy — or more specifically, its rapid
decline in recent years. In the article, studio execs and directors
throw around possible reasonings (they don’t have enough production
values to justify a big-screen viewing, we just don’t care about love as
much anymore), but as Vulture’s Claude Brodesser-Akner pointed out,
“though the genre is suffering at the box office, it is hard to believe
that the very idea of a romantic comedy is completely losing favor.
After all, what are sitcoms’ “will-they-won’t-they” arcs other than long
romantic comedies?” Indeed.
How I Met Your Mother
In fact, while there have always been “rom-com” sitcoms (Mad About You, Friends),
we feel like we’ve seen an uptick in both the number and quality in
recent years. We also tend to care about characters in TV shows more
than we do for their film counterparts — after all, when you spend time
with the same characters week after week, over months or years, you tend
to be more invested in their exploits. After the jump, we take a look
at a few TV shows that could be replacing our need to see romantic
comedies in the theaters. Do you agree, or do you think that despite the
current rocky ground, traditional rom-coms will always have a place in
our hearts?
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