| Cranky bald creator | Set in N.Y. or L.A. metro areas | Lovable asshole as star | Showbiz insider baloney | Therapy | Trippy dream sequences | Perpetually Emmy- snubbed |
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| 30 Rock |  |
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Career vs. Life | |||||
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Family-values obsession | |||
| Battlestar Galactica |  |
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Iraq war | ||||||
| Buffy the Vampire Slayer | |
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Adolescence | |||||
| Curb Your Enthusiasm |  |
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Impotence | |||
| Friday Night Lights |  |
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Middle American striving | ||||||
| Lost |  |
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Something, we hope | |||||||
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The sixties | |||
| The Office (U.K.) |  |
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Middle-class desperation | |||||||
| Six Feet Under | |
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Mortality | |||
| The Sopranos |  |
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The American Dream | ||
| The Wire |  |
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Nothing, really. The game is the game. |
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