{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "This bar left NBC on after the Super Bowl and I\u2019m catching snatches of This Is Us and it\u2019s just... several nonintersecting plot...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/170523101498/", "html": "<p>This bar left NBC on after the Super Bowl and I\u2019m catching snatches of This Is Us and it\u2019s just&hellip; several nonintersecting plot lines of a demographic spread of characters where each one is just people coping with loss?</p><p>And I\u2019m like\u2026 is this a melodrama? Does TV do melodrama? I guess Weeds was kind of one, at some point they realized their strength was Mary-Louise Parker doing \u201cstruggling to project confident command while actually experiencing abject terror\u201d and kept rigging increasingly absurd setups for that</p>"}