Plot Genres You Hate, Even In Your Favorite Shows

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I’m binge-watching the second season of Brooklyn Nine - Nine these days. Will you believe they had the old “character who has never been seen near a cigarette suddenly happens to be a long time smoker quitting for that episode”? And no, not even in an ironic meta way, like they did in HIMYM, no. They did it for real.

It’s not even the fact that I thought that cliché had been buried since the early nineties, it’s that it happened in the TV show I least expected to see it sprung, since otherwise it’s written in a fairly self-aware way.

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Truth in television :slight_smile:

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The mental disability de jour: It’s usually some insipid mental quirk like hoarding that made headlines and the talk show circuit. A cast member or recurring character all the sudden has it, and all it takes is probing into the victim’s childhood and making them confront the truth about what really happened at that pivotal moment to cure them.

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There’s a lot to piss off someone watching “Sense8” but Riley’s labor scene, supposed to be tragic, just made me angry as heck. They piled the stupid high and wide for that scene.