Cracking Concepts #20: Kind of kin

A lot of TV shows, particularly sitcoms, involve a group of people who, despite their differences, are a family of sorts.

Think Community.

Or Cheers.

Or It’s always sunny in Philadelphia.

Or Friends.

Or Brooklyn Nine-Nine.

Or Parks and Recreation.

Or 30 Rock.

Or, going back a long time, Taxi.

It works for dramas as well.

Think Orange is the New Black.

What sort of quasi family could you create?

What draws them together?

A location?

A workplace?

An interest?

An apartment building?

A mode of transport?

A limitation?

An ailment?

A prodigious talent?

An ambition?

A religion?

A failing?

What sort of “family” situation could provide a huge well from which to draw weekly stories?

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