Hollywood Already Did It

In our third episode of the Buddies For Life Mini-Series, Blake, Jamie and Terrence look at the themes in Lethal Weapon and how they parallel to what Falcon and the Winter Soldier is about.  How Lethal Weapon built the buddy cop genre, and what Falcon and the Winter Soldier clearly learned from it.  The evolving genre, the action, the relationships of the characters, and the importance of your story having a strong thesis statement.

This week Falcon and Winter Soldier premiered its second episode, so we take our second buddy cop movie pairing and look at 48 Hours, the movie that started Eddie Murphy's movie career, and many claim to be the first "buddy cop" comedy.  We look at how the movie and this episode both handle race thematically, balance action and comedy, and look at the relationships of the characters, we also speculate on where the series is going, and much much more!

Hello!  Welcome to a new mini-series from Hollywood Already Did It!  For every episode of the Falcon and the Winter Soldier Disney+ series we will be discussing our impressions of the episode, and the long history of the buddy copy genre of movies and TV.  Each week we'll select a movie with the episode and discuss the themes, motifs, and ideas that make up the genre, the importance of the movie we selected, and how it connects to Falcon and Winter Soldier!  This week, we discuss In the Heat of the Night, what many say is the first buddy cop American movie.  We discuss the movie, the episode, the tension of Falcon and Bucky, where they are in the world, how it relates to our world and more!

Hello and welcome dear listeners!  This is the last chapter in our history of sitcoms through Wandavision.  Jamie, Terrence and Blake discuss the finale to Wandavision, give you brief "lesson" on finales, but you know what those are, so we talk about our favorite and least favorite finale, what a show needs to end a high note, and if Wandavision met that standard.  We hope you enjoyed our mini-series, and we hope to bring you more soon.  Stay tuned!

We go through our reactions to this weeks episode of Wandavision.  And since we are out of the decades of sitcoms it is time to look at the clip-show, the episodes of shows you either hate or love when they come on, why we do them, when they work and why its an effective tool on this weeks episodes.

Wandavision Episode Seven: Breaking the Fourth Wall brings us into the 2010's a decade where most of comedy was cutaways to to the talking heads, awkward zooms, tough story lines and a decline in the family sitcom as we turned to streaming.  Modern Family broke that trend and showed us a more inclusive, more, well modern family on the screen. We discuss the episode, the impact of Modern Family and how comedy from that era aged worse than other eras.

Welcome to Episode Six of our Mini-Series about the shows that influenced Wandavision.  This week is all about Malcom in the Middle, marketing in the 90s, holiday specials, and how upset we are that the show skipped the 90s. Subscribe!  Share! Let us know if you were upset about the 90s missing the spotlight, and what shows you wanted them to do.

We're back to the regular sitcom shenanigans of Wanda and Vision!  Though they are getting more serious as Vision and others start to feel that something is off in their perfect world.  In the history of the real world, sitcoms and TV got more serious in the 1980s as cable TV brought more competition, violence, and an edge to family sitcoms that the vaudeville era never had.

Episode Four of Wandavision took a break from its sitcom format to give us some needed exposition, world building, and one of the coolest cold opens in recent memory.  As a result we take the time to discuss the history of cold opens in TV, why they are important and some of our favorites.  We also touch on the importance of market research in television and why having an understanding of your audience is fundamental.  We also discuss the pros and cons of heavy exposition.  Subscribe and stick around!

Hello and welcome to the third installment of A History of Sitcoms Through Wandavision, where Blake, Terrence and Jamie discuss the various decades of television used in Wandavision, what audiences wanted in those decades, how those shows pushed the medium and forward, and how it applies to our heroes.  This week is all about the 70s, The Brady Bunch and how the last show of the classic family influences Wanda and Vision in their quest for a family, normalcy and a lot of other things seemingly out of their reach.