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Originally Posted by Penforhire
DMc, but the basic content of the Seinfeld series was the stuff of our boring lives, just stretched to absurdity. I think the audience was roped in by how close it got to our daily lives, similar to how the Dilbert comic strip is a scary-close parody of normal office life.
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Yes. But note Seinfeld was
comedy, not drama, and I was specifically talking about drama.
There are other genres that have fallen out of fashion which used to be mined for dramatic content. There was a time when it was hard to turn on a TV and not have a western or a war story somewhere on the lineup.
And I probably should mention the soap opera, which mines romance for drama on a daily basis.
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I suppose it is harder to script those to entertain as well as a cop drama. Life-and-death has an immediate natural attraction, at least as spectacle.
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Yes. I think they are popular because they are inherent sources of drama that everyone is familiar with.
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Dennis