Golden Age of TV increasingly feels like Golden Age of pitch perfect trope machines 
Is it just me aging or has mass entertainment gotten more and more tropey over last 2 decades? Books as much as movies/tv.
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I am now looking for fiction in all media that sacrifices narrative perfection for narrative experiments even if rough-edged
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i've heard good things about that one.
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.@kilonide too niche/high-brow for me. Looking for middle-brow, mass appeal breakthrough stuff like Simpsons, South Park, Harry Potter etc
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Have you watched The IT Crowd
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"Save the Cat" & other tropey template guidebooks have helped pushed writers into formulaic structures: http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2013/07/hollywood_and_blake_snyder_s_screenwriting_book_save_the_cat.html …
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can confirm, my college friends were tested on this exact formula. Reminds me of this, it's about $ http://www.nickhunn.com/lora-vs-lte-m-vs-sigfox/ …
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agreed.
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have you gotten older in those last two decades?
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you should allow for your years experience w/ media. Every trope is fresh the first time. Popular fiction always has rules and morals.
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