Does anyone else here watch this show?
It may be a good show; I don't know. I know that when I'd first heard about it I thought it was about something totally different from what it is about. I've had enough with police dramas, so, I don't watch it.
Truly, I've had enough with the continuing drama aspect of nighttime television, period. I "get" the notion of character development and why writers, actors and directors incorporate it into dramatic television productions. It's also not lost on me that the so-called "dramady" (hour-long programs that blend comedy with drama) challenge the television academy because there's no clear cut "box" in which to fit them.
That said, were I desirous of continuing drama, I'd watch daytime television dramas. Frankly, I'd like to see more night time drama that, like
Twilight Zone, is the television equivalent of short stories that have nothing to do with one another and that are instead self-contained dramatic stories that stand on their own and are good. Television is able to do that with miniseries that run as specials of a sort, but it seems unable (unwilling?) to produce them as regular programming.
The closest to that and of which I'm aware, is
American Horror Story, which is sort of like that, but the dramatic presentation spans a whole season instead of one to three episodes. After that,
Murdoch Mysteries and
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries approach it; they both have minor ongoing storylines pertaining to the personal lives of the protagonists, but mostly each episode is self-contained. Otherwise, the only wholly self-contained episodic shows I can think of are in the non-fiction genre.
