Alas, poor Hollywood. Whether you regard it as a place or state of mind, Hollywood and everything it stands for are just so damned easy to satirize. This article is so on-target that reading it should be mandatory for all new TV scribes:
by Diana Cook
Hollywood is notoriously resistant to change. If something was found to be successful in the past, you can guarantee it will be played out over and over again — no matter how tiresome it becomes. For decades now, scriptwriters have relied on the same stock characters, cliches, and structures to produce lazy, formulaic films and shows that do little more than reinforce every negative stereotype about every segment of society imaginable. For example …
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