Break a Leg

Episode 1 is good enough to be on television. It's funny, the characters are believable, et cetera.

Episode 2 is too sad/serious. The problem with being serious is in a sitcom that it exposes the plot to scrutiny and betrays the sitcom characters as mere caricatures. Which they are, but when we are busy laughing we don't notice such things.

So please, for episode 3, remember that this is not a soap opera. It's not a tear jerker. It's a sitcom. Everything about it s supposed to be funny, including the plot itself. And please, avoid the soap opera tracks from Episode 2; that added insult to injury!

Do that and we will love you guys even more.

Cheers and well done!

Heya Seun,

Well from my own perspective, I gotta say I've never really felt the show to be too serious, or really serious at all for that matter. At least in the conventional sense of the word, or in the sense of a show such as oh I dunno, prison break (that might be a bad example...) It definitely is true that we deal with serious situations, such as those in episode 2, but we're doing so for a number of reasons, I'd say foremost being to create comedic contrast. For example, by soap opera tracks I'm assuming (and if I'm wrong here I'm making an ass out of both you and me here, so I apologize) you're referring to Mint Condition playing to the end of the last scene of episode 2? This was intentional in it's ridiculousness, the scene is a sad one so coupled with the music which while a emotional song, creates a specific comedic contrast because of both it's "emotional intensity" and it's setup/establishment in an earlier scene as one of our many plays on Mint's name. The song playing at this critical point in the story is so over the top that I personally find it hilarious.

The second thing we're going for, is that we actually do want our show to have more plot and development then your standard sitcom. You can notice right off the bat that our episodes lead into each other, so someone coming in right to the 2nd part of ep 2, or even into the second episode itself, while still being able to enjoy it, would find themselves missing out on a lot of jokes and plot that had already been established. This is definitely a show that is intended to be viewed in order.

And while this is definitely defying conventional sitcom standards, we're as I previously said, trying to go for something a little deeper in terms of plot and development.

I hope that the characters don't seem as just caricatures, because the intent, even though they are absurd and often ridiculous, is to have them be actual characters, to be flushed out and developed as the series goes on. However in their absurdity, it's somewhat of a unique style of character development in that it is primarily focused on creating comedy. So while Francesca's height disorder might not be believable as something your nextdoor neighbor might have, it is believable in this crazy world that is created by BaL.

Anyhow, that's my two-cents as a creative member of the team.

For the true story, you will of course have to turn to the show's writers and creators, the baranovsky bros (they're like the mario bros except they can't really jump or anything, I think they mainly just eat spaghetti...).

Well put, Dashiell!