This comment is perfect.

Cable shows like this are largely written and shot by the time the first episodes air. It's not like network where they're reacting to the ratings as they come in.

I think it'd be funny if we got into a REALLY aggressive and angry argument about whether or not "ahead of its time" is 6 or 8 years.

I kinda think that's the exact right amount of time? Enough time for the few people that were into the thing to turn around and make their things influenced by it…

This movie didn't cost $250 million. That's just a number the studio threw out early and then clung to.The actual cost was around $400 million. BEFORE marketing. Which is insane. So even with the money coming from it being a box office hit, it is almost impossible for it to make a ton of money (even the estimated…

Hotwives was definitely scripted, despite being chock full of improvisers. Kroll show too, I think. Don't know about Burning Love.

What other shows do that? Besides Reno 911?

"and the gun ad isn’t a sketch, either."

This… this is an excellent article. I wish I had something more interesting to add, but I don't. Just a good old fashioned "This is great."

Wait, that wasn't Betty White in that scene that Banks was reading her story too, right?

Don't forget Loveless!

A few minor exceptions exist, but the need to please the foreign markets is killing major comedies.

"A finely crafted skit."

Sure, but that's irrelevant to the point I was responding to. I was responding to the "People stream things they'd never pay for. A million streams is not a million bits of lost revenue" statement which, to me, seems irrelevant. If music has value, than those streams have value, even if you wouldn't buy it otherwise,…

Does it matter, though? Like, I don't think the artists are really making that argument. But if someone streams something that they wouldn't have bought otherwise, why does it matter what their behavior would have been in that hypothetical version? They still streamed it… to the artist, it's still use of their work,…

All Web Videos Pointing Out Similarities In Movie Trailers are THE SAME!!!

I think, perhaps, you might be mistaking Buzzfeed clickbait listicle headlines for actual human being's beliefs.

"Practically everything in the 90's on TV is considered superior to everything that comes after it."

It's a lesson that, to at least a certain degree, I think they learned. The fact that they gave away the Basic Rules and DM Basic rules right at the start for 5e, gives me hope that they will be far less precious with their IP. So far, if you want to play, you CAN play just with the free content… all the paid stuff…

There's a free DM basic rules download that WotC put out that will help you out. In fact… here it is!