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Amy’s relentless awkwardness, and Gina’s enjoyment of same, is always a treat, and Jake and Charles offered Original Terry (“The worst Terry!”) plenty to be exasperated with at Lohank’s cabin.īut each of those stories left me wanting more, and not necessarily in that classic showbiz axiom way. Holt and Diaz grappling with emotions was a wonder, particularly the glimpse of Great Dramatic Actor Andre Braugher showing that he can cry funny (and also reciting magazine story URLs in their entirety). “Into the Woods” certainly had plenty of funny moments across its three stories. ( One of the very first things Mindy Kaling did when her show moved from FOX to Hulu was to go back to the three-act structure.) That means scenes and acts don’t have the proper time to build momentum, and it means that the episode as a whole has to wrap up its stories really abruptly in that abbreviated fourth act. Several network researchers claim that the commercial breaks under that structure are too long, and encourage people to change the channel and not come back, which led to the addition of both a fourth act and an extra commercial break, making each individual break shorter but creating more breaks per episode. (*) For those who don’t pay attention to this kind of thing: most network sitcoms used to feature three acts, separated by commercial breaks, often but not always with a pre-credits teaser and/or a tag scene that runs during the closing credits.
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But what often happens in these three-story episodes – particularly because the series has to operate under the awful four-act structure that FOX and some of the other networks have imposed on all their sitcoms(*) – is that each plot, particularly any not involving Jake, winds up feeling under developed. This cast is so great, and works well in so many different combinations, that I appreciate the impulse to showcase everybody by splitting them up into smaller groups.
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Still, the memory of “Halloween III” remained fresh enough in my mind that it was hard not to compare how much smoother and richer the show seems to be when it only does one story in a week, versus the three we often get in episodes like “Into the Woods.” A review of tonight’s “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” coming up just as soon as I turn this debacle into a straight up bacle…ĭue to FOX’s World Series coverage, it’s been a couple of weeks since the last “Brooklyn” episode aired.