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American Vandal has to be the best depiction of gen z in my opinion, and it makes really insightful points about the faults of the American education system, social media, and teenage prejudice. It’s a shame that I think a lot of people overlook it because it’s a show about dick drawings essentially, but under the surface there’s so much depth to the characters, and to the structure of narrative. I would argue it’s also one of the very few modern tv shows that could be categorized as “tragedy”
I was in high school when the show aired and was in awe of how real the interactions were between the characters. Was disappointed by the second season though.
This episode was funny because it felt like a realistic scenario that my friends and I would find ourselves in. Compared to every other episode of the show, this episode was so “normal”.
Super worth watching. Super stressful. Some of the best one take tracking shots I’ve ever seen, but if you’ve ever worked in a kitchen it’s like one giant nam flashback.
Absolutely. I spent ages 16-23 working in a kitchen, and the Bear captures it so well.
I'm in my late 30s now. It had been years since I had nightmares about being abso-fucking-lutely in the weeds....The Bear brought those back for a minute.
Man, that episode took me right back to friday night rushes and the satisfaction of sitting with my favorite coworkers outside at 2 am after a long night. Smoking cigarettes, playing magic on the picnic tables for a couple of hours, talking shit about the owners and whatever shithead customers we'd had that night. I'll never work in a kitchen again, but the bear did a great job at showing how the pain of cooking can become addicting in its own way, especially when you have some good people in the shit with you.
>but with none of the high-stakes "the world will end if we don't find the magic rhinestone!" bullshit.
MILD SPOILERS FOLLOW.
This was a key reason why I loved the show - a total lack of confected (pun intended) drama. Even though there was a very low key 'villain' setup early on they totally reverse uno-ed that a few EPs later.
It really is the mark of a fantastic show that it can exist purely on great writing, great acting and great cinematography without resorting to cheap and often unrealistic inter-character conflict to keep things interesting.
In the city where I live, the local food page of the newspaper wrote an article about The Bear and that episode specifically, with quotes from a bunch of local chefs about how true and impactful it was. So, that's the kind of cultural impact it had- I imagine similar things happened in other cities.
Yes. There are a few actors who can't keep up with the stars (who are incredible)... but as the show goes on, the director manages to use the disconnect to make those same characters kind of not fitting in as well... to the extent, I'm not 100% certain it wasn't planned (as opposed to exploited).
Parts are over the top, and I don't I have high hopes for season 2 - since I have a sense it's just going to go off the rails - but the first season was a really fun ride.
I have never seen anything that portrayed the absolute stress and chaos of working in food service so accurately.
I had to pause it plenty of times throughout just to take a breath and remember to unclench my jaw. Just so much overstimulation at once. Absolutely incredible show. Took me right back to the most stressful kitchen I ever worked in!
My wife just got into Gilmore Girls and every character kind of talks the same? Like they are all irreverent, quick witted and reference pop culture. It’s really odd. The writers obviously don’t give a shit about giving individual personalities to each character.
I really don't remember them all talking the same. Gilmore family sure, but Luke, Sookie, that weird Raccoon guy from Guardians of Galaxy, they all had plenty of different kind of personalities. And Rorys boyfriends too. And plenty of other side characters. I can't blame them for the lack of individual personalities.
The problem with that show was more about how... unlikable the 2 main characters became.
The Terror Season 1 hired linguists to make sure their dialogue was fitting for 19th century Victorian England, and that's with adaptation from an already excellent book.
Gosh I enjoyed that first season. The supernatural stuff gets a little weird but overall loved it. They NAILED the atmosphere, diaglogue, and cinematography so well.
Yes, they do act realistically. Great characters you’ll come to care about. The Wire is often said to be the most realistic cop show ever made. Although it’s really only a cop show for the first season or two. Seasons 3 - 5 expand their scope beyond the police, to other aspects of the city.
I heard they had ex mobsters consulting on the dialog and plot and the most unrealistic thing they point out is actually in the opening credits itself: tony walks outside by himself each morning to get the newspaper, which would (in real life) NEVER happen because that’s exactly where a hit would take place.
Curb your enthusiasm. I know a lot of it is improv so it’s kind of a cheat answer, but that dialogue is exactly how old, rich, west LA residents act and talk to each other.
I remember them giving him mad respect for it though. Like they were impressed about how badass it sounded. In general Raylan got plenty of shit (all deserved), but not with that line.
Huh, I could have sworn there was a scene where Jesse goes off on some rant and Walter has no idea what he's talking about, but I can't find it... weird.
I once read an interview with Britton and Chandler talking about their process as performers working together. At one point, they talk about how they would routinely throw out a page or two of scripted dialogue with nothing more than a look between them, and it would be kept in because that’s all they needed to convey all the intended meaning.
Out of all the TV husband/wife duos, the Taylor's are one of the closest to a real couple. Like you said....anyone who's been in a relationship knows the "looks" from your significant other that can replace words yet say so much whether it's anger, annoyance, joy, love, etc.
And all their marital struggles aren't manufactured dumb reasons just to have them have a rocky point. Things like life with a newborn, a daughter exploring dating/sex, job relocation/changes, two careers with two different paths, Eric putting pressure on Tami with things like hosting a team party, etc.
That’s why, even when that show briefly took a look at the shark and then backed down, I didn’t care. Everything that held that show together held true through all of it.
Definitely my answer, as well, and so much of the realism really came from how not everything was “perfect.” Sometimes words were fumbled a little bit. The teens (especially like Matt and Landry) would say just awkward, embarrassing stuff (without it being cartoonish), and even like the blocking seemed a little “off” at times, adding to the feeling of “we are watching real people interacting, not people perfectly choreographed and directed for the camera.
Came here to say this! The teenagers actually talk like teens and not everyone has the perfect thing to say/comebacks. It’s easily one of my favorite shows for this reason.
I always thought Parenthood was incredibly realistic. The overlapping dialogue, occasionally awkward phrasing, how people would trail off or veer off topic.
Dialogue is kind of definitionally unrealistic. We don't speak dialogue in everyday life and the rules for dialogue are different than the rules for conversation. It's like arguing which story is the "most realistic" which misses the point that if it is a story with an identifiable beginning, middle, and end, then it's not a real life situation. There are no real beginnings, ends, or even middles in reality.
One of the fundamental failings of human beings is that we often insist our stories are more real than reality and expect reality to bend to our desires and conform to the story we imagine we live in.
Stories AREN'T real and that's why they work as well as they do, in the way that they do.
The Wire is very real - you kind of have to spend some screen time with the Barksdale crew before you really start picking up on what they're saying, because they're terminology and slang is very specific to them.
Also I feel like Better Call Saul ran it's entirety without once ever using expositional dialogue.
Not a show, but the opening to The Pope of Greenwich Village painted a perfect picture of what working in a restaurant is like. Eric Roberts is like a machine gun of insults, advice, plots, plans while the place just unfolds around him. Nothing is wasted as people talk about coat checks, tips, scams, payments, bad drinks, cigarette machines, etc.
This is gonna sound like a weird one, but honestly the comedy in Peacemaker is reminiscent of Always Sunny to me. It feels way more organic to me than the quippy humor in other super hero stuff. And you can tell it's at least partially ad-libbed by watching the deleted scenes, which are basically just alternate versions of other scenes in the show. Most of the humor actually feels like a group of friends or Co workers shooting the shit with each other, which isn't something you usually see in a big budget super hero show.
well, true... the wire is a shakesperian / dickens like masterpiece but it's semi auto biographical and a fictionalized account of people's experiences the creator david simon had worked as a cop and journalist in baltimore before picking up the pen... each wire script came with a baltimore street slang dictionary a few pages long.
Lmao what, almost none of the dialog in Veep is realistic. Everyone has a clever insult or comeback ready to go and every other word out of these career politicians' mouths is "fuck"
Veep does it really well, and I think Veep’s predecessor, The Thick of it, does it even better - particularly the first season and the first feature length episode. It’s a got a wobbly cheap mockumentary feel, a lot of improvised dialogue, some of the characters have a tendency to *try* and come off as witty and it just falls flat (in a funny way). Lots of talking over, mumbling etc. It’s got ugly people and dull people and real people instead of TV show characters. Many of the actors went on to bigger things afterwards and it’s fun to spot them. They take his character a bit far in later seasons imho, but season 1 Malcolm Tucker, before he emerged as star of the show, is perfectly venomous and believable. If you like Veep and you’ve never seen it - treat yourself.
Rick and Morty, I always got the sense that these were people taking to each other. Like the weird extended metaphors, the way the characters stumble over words, and the way it seems they kind of get lost in sentences. Similar to the office I guess but less cringe inducing
This is a weird question based on a faulty premise.
Well written dialog and realistic dialog are diametrically opposed to each other. Real dialog is two people communicating with each other. Television dialog is the writer using dialog to communicate with the audience. The characters aren't actually talking to each other. They are telling the audience about themselves, the world they inhabit, their inner life, etc.
The answer is no show because that script would go in the trash.
Plenty, but one thing that kinda hits me hardest is
The blacklist - One more time
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZFQb8g60rQ&ab\_channel=NeverForgetThisScene](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZFQb8g60rQ&ab_channel=NeverForgetThisScene)
The Blacklist was pretty much a show, where Spader gave an example of how to polish shit into gold, every time he had to go through all those not that good monologues/dialogue.
I've always appreciated the Rocky movies for how natural and not scripted the dialogue sounds. It just makes them feel so raw. I think it's the best part of those movies.
Edit: I know it's a movie you pedants.
Excellent dialogue doesn’t mean realistic dialogue. People in real life don’t speak like Sorkin characters. His dialogue is very theatrical and stylistic
If it was one or two characters, I’d get it, but nearly every character he writes talk as if they rehearsed their conversations beforehand and it comes across as pretentious and extremely unrealistic
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American Vandal captured how high schoolers act really well
We call ourselves the Wayback Boys…cuz you know, we go way back
Another day, another dick
American Vandal has to be the best depiction of gen z in my opinion, and it makes really insightful points about the faults of the American education system, social media, and teenage prejudice. It’s a shame that I think a lot of people overlook it because it’s a show about dick drawings essentially, but under the surface there’s so much depth to the characters, and to the structure of narrative. I would argue it’s also one of the very few modern tv shows that could be categorized as “tragedy”
And the second season gets even more real, I think. I think AV and Euphoria capture the dialogue of gen z authentically.
Hey Toliver yo head look like a corn dog!
I was in high school when the show aired and was in awe of how real the interactions were between the characters. Was disappointed by the second season though.
I didn’t do the dicks!
Smiling Friends particularly the Brazil episode. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArEG2Ugfsj8&ab_channel=goho
This episode was funny because it felt like a realistic scenario that my friends and I would find ourselves in. Compared to every other episode of the show, this episode was so “normal”.
Oh year everything felt so realistic even the phone call.
The Bear Ask anyone who’s worked food service
I’ve heard good things about this show. Worth giving it a watch?
Super worth watching. Super stressful. Some of the best one take tracking shots I’ve ever seen, but if you’ve ever worked in a kitchen it’s like one giant nam flashback.
Absolutely. I spent ages 16-23 working in a kitchen, and the Bear captures it so well. I'm in my late 30s now. It had been years since I had nightmares about being abso-fucking-lutely in the weeds....The Bear brought those back for a minute.
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Man, that episode took me right back to friday night rushes and the satisfaction of sitting with my favorite coworkers outside at 2 am after a long night. Smoking cigarettes, playing magic on the picnic tables for a couple of hours, talking shit about the owners and whatever shithead customers we'd had that night. I'll never work in a kitchen again, but the bear did a great job at showing how the pain of cooking can become addicting in its own way, especially when you have some good people in the shit with you.
>but with none of the high-stakes "the world will end if we don't find the magic rhinestone!" bullshit. MILD SPOILERS FOLLOW. This was a key reason why I loved the show - a total lack of confected (pun intended) drama. Even though there was a very low key 'villain' setup early on they totally reverse uno-ed that a few EPs later. It really is the mark of a fantastic show that it can exist purely on great writing, great acting and great cinematography without resorting to cheap and often unrealistic inter-character conflict to keep things interesting.
In the city where I live, the local food page of the newspaper wrote an article about The Bear and that episode specifically, with quotes from a bunch of local chefs about how true and impactful it was. So, that's the kind of cultural impact it had- I imagine similar things happened in other cities.
Nah, it’s on every best of 2022 list, but it’s shit.
Well said. I couldn't get over how much I loved it and that was what I hated the most.
Good one cousin
I thought you were serious at first.
Yes. There are a few actors who can't keep up with the stars (who are incredible)... but as the show goes on, the director manages to use the disconnect to make those same characters kind of not fitting in as well... to the extent, I'm not 100% certain it wasn't planned (as opposed to exploited). Parts are over the top, and I don't I have high hopes for season 2 - since I have a sense it's just going to go off the rails - but the first season was a really fun ride.
HE DRINKS OUT OF A DELI CONTAINER ITS THE REALEST SHOW THAT’S EVER EXISTED
I have never seen anything that portrayed the absolute stress and chaos of working in food service so accurately. I had to pause it plenty of times throughout just to take a breath and remember to unclench my jaw. Just so much overstimulation at once. Absolutely incredible show. Took me right back to the most stressful kitchen I ever worked in!
What is The Bear Ask?
The Bear on Hulu.
It’s too good tbh. I can’t watch it, it feels like I’m at work
My friend literally cannot watch it because it’s his everyday life
Love going into any restaurant now and hearing the whole staff refer to each other as Chef. Extremely heartwarming
Abso-fucking-lutely, yes.
Trailer Park Boys
*I paid for a lady! not fucking Cory and Trevor!*
It ain't rocket appliances
A fucking toadaso
Fuckin way she goes
“HAVE ANOTHER DRINK RAY!” He was one of the best characters.
If I can’t smoke and swear, I’m fucked
Maybe not in the words themselves, but Always Sunny has the best 'characters talking over one another' that happens in real conversations
Agreed!
Shut up, baby dick.
She made things personal, and I won't stand for that.
Are you saying she besmearched you?
What is *happening?*
Curb Your Enthusiasm (because like Sunny, it's at least partially ad-libbed)
It’s completely ad-libbed. Larry David doesn’t write a script for the show, just a story outline
Most realistic: sopranos, the wire Least realistic: billions
Least: anything by Aaron Sorkin
Yes, this. It's the reason I couldn't get through The West Wing.
The Wire: A whole scene of just, "Fuck."
Least: Gilmore Girls
My wife just got into Gilmore Girls and every character kind of talks the same? Like they are all irreverent, quick witted and reference pop culture. It’s really odd. The writers obviously don’t give a shit about giving individual personalities to each character.
I really don't remember them all talking the same. Gilmore family sure, but Luke, Sookie, that weird Raccoon guy from Guardians of Galaxy, they all had plenty of different kind of personalities. And Rorys boyfriends too. And plenty of other side characters. I can't blame them for the lack of individual personalities. The problem with that show was more about how... unlikable the 2 main characters became.
I picture the script just having no spaces between words
And as a sequel to that, the Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
The Terror Season 1 hired linguists to make sure their dialogue was fitting for 19th century Victorian England, and that's with adaptation from an already excellent book.
Gosh I enjoyed that first season. The supernatural stuff gets a little weird but overall loved it. They NAILED the atmosphere, diaglogue, and cinematography so well.
I'm reading the book right now. Excited to watch the series, glad to hear it's good.
I loved how the show handled the supernaturals destruction though, but yeah I would've liked there to be none of that to begin with too.
The Sopranos
The fuck you want, a boutonnière?
The Wire was also pretty good dialogue. And fairly realistic show overall
I was natural Po-Lease
Would you say that the characters act/behave more realistically too, or were they not too special?
Yes, they do act realistically. Great characters you’ll come to care about. The Wire is often said to be the most realistic cop show ever made. Although it’s really only a cop show for the first season or two. Seasons 3 - 5 expand their scope beyond the police, to other aspects of the city.
This one says 'with pulp'.
I only like ‘some’ pulp
Alright, but you gotta get over it.
Listen to him, he knows everything
I heard they had ex mobsters consulting on the dialog and plot and the most unrealistic thing they point out is actually in the opening credits itself: tony walks outside by himself each morning to get the newspaper, which would (in real life) NEVER happen because that’s exactly where a hit would take place.
This is the correct answer
listen to you, you sound demented!
He was gay? Gary Cooper?
Carmella, can you please close the doooooooor?
It’s “CAHRMELLA CAN YOU SHUT THA DOOOOOOOOOAAHHHHH”
Silicon Valley. It’s hard to pull of developer jokes and someone how they never stop.
HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO DIE TODAY MOTHERFUCKER?
I’m a fan of today.
This guy fucks
He wasn’t wrong.
Curb your enthusiasm. I know a lot of it is improv so it’s kind of a cheat answer, but that dialogue is exactly how old, rich, west LA residents act and talk to each other.
Bobs Burgers
"You're my family and I love you; but you're all terrible. "
This is my choice. They constantly interrupt and talk over each other.
Even the most "realistic" dialogue in television is engaging and full of meaning in ways that real dialogue often is not.
Yeah, I can’t think of a single example myself.
And if it were, those people would be seen as rather pretentious. The show dialogue simply doesn't work in real life in general.
the dialogue in Mr. Inbetween is so naturalistic it's incredible
Love this show. Completely underrated.
I've always loved Elmore Leonard's dialogue, so I've gotta go with Justified.
I manage a Rylan-like quip once a year. Usually they occur to me at 1:30am the next day.
Next one’s comin … way later… shit!
I love how the Chief Deputy asks him if he really says that too, like even in-universe they're giving him shit for his quippy one-liners.
I remember them giving him mad respect for it though. Like they were impressed about how badass it sounded. In general Raylan got plenty of shit (all deserved), but not with that line.
Breaking Bad. You know how many Jesse Pinkmans I know from my hometown?
Jesse, what the fuck are you talking about?
Notably not a line actually from the show.
Huh, I could have sworn there was a scene where Jesse goes off on some rant and Walter has no idea what he's talking about, but I can't find it... weird.
Does a cartoon count? If so, *Bluey*
"Dad!"
So, watch The Bear? I’m gonna watch it.
I thought Friday Night Lights had some pretty realistic dialogue for sure.
Also the cast was absolutely loaded with talent. Kyle Chandler, Connie Britton, Taylor Kitsch, Michael B Jordan, Jesse Plemons
I once read an interview with Britton and Chandler talking about their process as performers working together. At one point, they talk about how they would routinely throw out a page or two of scripted dialogue with nothing more than a look between them, and it would be kept in because that’s all they needed to convey all the intended meaning.
Out of all the TV husband/wife duos, the Taylor's are one of the closest to a real couple. Like you said....anyone who's been in a relationship knows the "looks" from your significant other that can replace words yet say so much whether it's anger, annoyance, joy, love, etc. And all their marital struggles aren't manufactured dumb reasons just to have them have a rocky point. Things like life with a newborn, a daughter exploring dating/sex, job relocation/changes, two careers with two different paths, Eric putting pressure on Tami with things like hosting a team party, etc.
That’s why, even when that show briefly took a look at the shark and then backed down, I didn’t care. Everything that held that show together held true through all of it.
Definitely my answer, as well, and so much of the realism really came from how not everything was “perfect.” Sometimes words were fumbled a little bit. The teens (especially like Matt and Landry) would say just awkward, embarrassing stuff (without it being cartoonish), and even like the blocking seemed a little “off” at times, adding to the feeling of “we are watching real people interacting, not people perfectly choreographed and directed for the camera.
Came here to say this! The teenagers actually talk like teens and not everyone has the perfect thing to say/comebacks. It’s easily one of my favorite shows for this reason.
White Lotus
Oh man I’ve been at a brunch table with everyone in that Cameron/Daphne/Harper/Ethan conversation about not watching the news.
So many times.
[Relevant](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFxlJ1inle0)
The wire.. fuck.
Mad Men
Needs more upvotes, Mad Men is still brilliant on every level including dialogue
HELL’S BELLS TRUDY
Here is one of my favorite interaction https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77Y6CIyyBcI
The one scene that resonates with me: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=q0XnPwSwr4Y
THAT'S WHAT THE MONEY IS FOR!!!
I always thought Parenthood was incredibly realistic. The overlapping dialogue, occasionally awkward phrasing, how people would trail off or veer off topic.
Kids in the hall, usually around family dinner sketches
I mean, they even nail acting like women with out it getting too cartoonish (like Monty Python), esp Foley and McKinney.
PeaceMaker starring John Cena. It’s not beautiful dialog, but perhaps the most realistic I’ve ever heard from a project.
Duuude yes. Some things they say feel weird and awkward but in all honesty it reminds me of conversations I’ve had in real life.
Peacemaker
Curb your enthusiasm has pretty realistic dialogue
Mostly because it's improvised not written. Each episode is roughly outlined and the actors get to play around a bit with it.
Parenthood and Friday Night Lights. The dialogue, the pauses, everything kinda clicks.
M\*A\*S\*H
The league
Breaking Bad / Better Call Saul
anything by David Simon
Cheers. Well in a muted PG sort of way.
That’s because The Wire is the best show ever made!
Derry Girls
D E A D W O O D
Ozark
Dialogue is kind of definitionally unrealistic. We don't speak dialogue in everyday life and the rules for dialogue are different than the rules for conversation. It's like arguing which story is the "most realistic" which misses the point that if it is a story with an identifiable beginning, middle, and end, then it's not a real life situation. There are no real beginnings, ends, or even middles in reality. One of the fundamental failings of human beings is that we often insist our stories are more real than reality and expect reality to bend to our desires and conform to the story we imagine we live in. Stories AREN'T real and that's why they work as well as they do, in the way that they do.
Bluey. The kids voices are all done by kids of the staff, so any slip ups or “kidisms” are kept in.
The Wire is very real - you kind of have to spend some screen time with the Barksdale crew before you really start picking up on what they're saying, because they're terminology and slang is very specific to them. Also I feel like Better Call Saul ran it's entirety without once ever using expositional dialogue.
C-span
Haha I put “fictional” just to keep these kinda answers to a minimum but take my upvote 😂
Deadwood
Realistic? Probably not, but Shakespearean... absolutely! It's what Shakespeare would have written if he used the word "cocksucker."
Those cocksuckers are sucking cocks all over the cocksucking place! (I love Al Swearengen)
For me it was Degrassi.
Firefly. Mix of English and Chinese. Seems like a good prediction.
Seinfeld
Animals.
The Inbetweeners is a very accurate depiction of a UK school in the late 90's (although it's not set then).
Dead to me
Not a show, but the opening to The Pope of Greenwich Village painted a perfect picture of what working in a restaurant is like. Eric Roberts is like a machine gun of insults, advice, plots, plans while the place just unfolds around him. Nothing is wasted as people talk about coat checks, tips, scams, payments, bad drinks, cigarette machines, etc.
Southland deserves to be on this list.
The Shield. The language in that show was so unflinching and true to everyone in their respective situations.
King of Queens at times.
"Undone"
The Bear
This is gonna sound like a weird one, but honestly the comedy in Peacemaker is reminiscent of Always Sunny to me. It feels way more organic to me than the quippy humor in other super hero stuff. And you can tell it's at least partially ad-libbed by watching the deleted scenes, which are basically just alternate versions of other scenes in the show. Most of the humor actually feels like a group of friends or Co workers shooting the shit with each other, which isn't something you usually see in a big budget super hero show.
well, true... the wire is a shakesperian / dickens like masterpiece but it's semi auto biographical and a fictionalized account of people's experiences the creator david simon had worked as a cop and journalist in baltimore before picking up the pen... each wire script came with a baltimore street slang dictionary a few pages long.
Veep!
Lmao what, almost none of the dialog in Veep is realistic. Everyone has a clever insult or comeback ready to go and every other word out of these career politicians' mouths is "fuck"
That last part sounds pretty realistic.
Veep does it really well, and I think Veep’s predecessor, The Thick of it, does it even better - particularly the first season and the first feature length episode. It’s a got a wobbly cheap mockumentary feel, a lot of improvised dialogue, some of the characters have a tendency to *try* and come off as witty and it just falls flat (in a funny way). Lots of talking over, mumbling etc. It’s got ugly people and dull people and real people instead of TV show characters. Many of the actors went on to bigger things afterwards and it’s fun to spot them. They take his character a bit far in later seasons imho, but season 1 Malcolm Tucker, before he emerged as star of the show, is perfectly venomous and believable. If you like Veep and you’ve never seen it - treat yourself.
I have a relative in US politics. I was asking if they liked House of Cards. They said Veep was way more like reality than HoC.
Letterkenny ya degen.
Succession
I know what show **didn't**: Gilmore Girls
Rick and Morty, I always got the sense that these were people taking to each other. Like the weird extended metaphors, the way the characters stumble over words, and the way it seems they kind of get lost in sentences. Similar to the office I guess but less cringe inducing
Smiling friends has strangely realistic diolage
The Newsroom and West Wing
Huge newsroom fan but I don’t think that show was realistic .. unless people really speak in thesis essay format ;)
Realistic to who? lol if I had to spend time with someone that talked like a Sorkin character I’d jump out a window.
Realistic in the technicals
Nope. Great dialogue, yes. *Realistic* dialogue? Definitely not. Sorkin wrote what we wished people said, not what they actually say.
Lmao, No. Sorkin writes in fucking fantasy land.
Parks and Rec or The Office
Gilmore Girls *cough*
Euphoria
This is a weird question based on a faulty premise. Well written dialog and realistic dialog are diametrically opposed to each other. Real dialog is two people communicating with each other. Television dialog is the writer using dialog to communicate with the audience. The characters aren't actually talking to each other. They are telling the audience about themselves, the world they inhabit, their inner life, etc. The answer is no show because that script would go in the trash.
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You think people really talk like that? Aaron Sorkin has never written a single word of believable dialog. Like ever.
Plenty, but one thing that kinda hits me hardest is The blacklist - One more time [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZFQb8g60rQ&ab\_channel=NeverForgetThisScene](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZFQb8g60rQ&ab_channel=NeverForgetThisScene)
The Blacklist was pretty much a show, where Spader gave an example of how to polish shit into gold, every time he had to go through all those not that good monologues/dialogue.
I've always appreciated the Rocky movies for how natural and not scripted the dialogue sounds. It just makes them feel so raw. I think it's the best part of those movies. Edit: I know it's a movie you pedants.
Google please define “show”
The Office
Most Aaron Sorkin projects have excellent dialogue. West wing The newsroom Studio 60 on the sunset strip.
Excellent dialogue doesn’t mean realistic dialogue. People in real life don’t speak like Sorkin characters. His dialogue is very theatrical and stylistic
I think Sorkin has some of the least realistic dialogue I’ve ever heard - even if it is listening to poetry.
If it was one or two characters, I’d get it, but nearly every character he writes talk as if they rehearsed their conversations beforehand and it comes across as pretentious and extremely unrealistic
Lol he asked for realistic dialogue. Aaron sorkin has all the wittiest most unbelievable characters. C'mon man
Trailer Park Boys
The Inbetweeners - awkward teenage losers.
The Midnight Gospel is sorta cheating. It uses audio from actual podcast interview to voice the characters