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[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 week ago

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Did they forget Gilmore Girls or The West Wing?

This seems to be a link with all the results, but doesn't list every TV shows that was checked.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Gilmore girls isn't mentioned in this article but it's been measured before, it's less than it's always sunny

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

A lot of downtime in Gilmore girls

Conversations are wordy and fast though

Most words per minute is a weird metric

A TV show that had an average talking narrator throughout would probably win.

Yet "Most words per minute" seems to portray that the characters speak fast.

When in reality the show with the least amount of non-conversation is going to win, even if the characters don't talk fast.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Star Wars: why use lot word when few word do trick

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I do think less dialogue can work great for setting an interesting atmospheric tone. Some of my favorite films have little to no dialogue. But yeah it is weird how many Star Wars shows follow this template. Some of them were very bad too. Interesting that Andor didn’t make this list.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Star Wars has always had kind of slow and stilted dialog imo, Andor is one of the few exceptions

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Suits would crush Brooklyn 99 if they didn't have so many long, drawn out shots of dramatic looks.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm surprised Letterkenny isn't on this list. That show's writing is rapid fire.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

it's because holt never used contractions

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

30 Rock had the most jokes per minute though.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

I would have guessed always sunny

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Love this show! It was always really fast paced haha but one of the wittiest shows ever

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Moonlighting had like twice the words as any other drama at the time. I'm guessing it's too old to be included in this ranking.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I really don’t like how comedy shows are like this now. There’s no pacing at all just line after line. Makes my head spin.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

There is still very much pacing. It's just done through cuts to other cast members now. So you effectively have 3-5 well-paced stories intertwined per episode, as well as different arc lengths weaved in too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Huh, maybe that is a clue to why I found the show insufferable despite my enjoyment of similar series. Everything is just too fast

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 week ago

Plus, racing through bad jokes doesn't make them any better

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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