sitcom Archives - Film and Furniture https://filmandfurniture.com/tag/sitcom/ For design geeks, film nerds and furniture fans Thu, 07 Mar 2019 17:08:33 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 The semiotics of sitcom sofas (or How these iconic couches wormed their way into your memories) https://filmandfurniture.com/2019/03/the-semiotics-of-sitcom-sofas-or-how-these-iconic-couches-wormed-their-way-into-your-memories/ https://filmandfurniture.com/2019/03/the-semiotics-of-sitcom-sofas-or-how-these-iconic-couches-wormed-their-way-into-your-memories/#comments Thu, 07 Mar 2019 17:07:29 +0000 https://filmandfurniture.com/?p=13647 The simplicity of a sitcom concept is part of what makes it successful. Every week (or several times a night once it’s all online) you get a repetition on a theme. This is what makes them so addictive. Like humour itself, a good sitcom is a killer mix of familiarity and surprise. But the thing about simplicity is that it’s very hard to pull off with success. It’s much harder work to get repeat laughs out of a group of ordinary people in an ordinary room than it is to get thrills from a bunch of supervillains blowing things up. … Continued

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