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jason10mm wrote: TV show writing is fundamentally broken because modern writers don't understand the purpose of character in service to the story and just can't help but vomit up all sorts of dysfunction on screen.
I assume that tv writer rooms tend to skew young, and both Millennials and especially Gen Z seem obsessed with trauma and mental illness.
Yeah, I can't tell if it's just what the writers know or just everyone kind of made a collective decision to chase a specific type of narrative of internal psychological trauma and interpersonal relationships framed by dysfunctional personality conflict rather than a shared response to external issues. Genre TV has DEFINITELY gone this way, while I'm sure there are plenty of EMS, cop, and lawyer shows that still follow the classic pattern of quirky characters responding to episodic situations, in genre TV the focus on "wow, alien civilization, let's have a core of diverse but functional characters explore this strange phenomenon from a scientific POV with allegory about the human condition" is almost completely gone and it's straight up personal drama with just the set draping of a sci-fi premise to lure in an audience for a bait n'switch.
I'm glad that I re-watched season one of Tokyo Vice. The final episode of the first season featured several intense cliffhangers, and season two hits the ground running. Every major character hits a new low, but the closing scene ends on a hopeful note.
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