Here Are the 5 TV Tropes You'll Get Tired of Seeing This Year

Meet the doppelgängers

Every year, broadcast spends millions upon millions turning scripts into pilots and pilots into series. And frequently, it picks scripts with quite a few commonalities. Of course, if you have an entire professional class assigned the task of figuring out what's popular and making it into a TV show, this is going to happen. But it's worth parsing some of the duplications in order to see what network heads think will work and sometimes what they're all thinking at once, for reasons known only to them.

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  • State of Affairs
  • Madam Secretary

I know, right? This seems so incredibly specific that you'd think it couldn't possibly come up twice in the four-and-a-half-network range of broadcast TV.

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