Japan has an incredible wealth of entertainment in their TV shows. I highly reccomend KASSO! Its ninja warrior but with skating they have English guests and translations on their YT channel.

Usually non US shows and Movies are alot better imho. Another something you should not sleep on are UK TV shows. Like: The Responder a show about a first responder who is struggling with mental illness and the pressure of his work.

So broaden your horizon, The industry is not as bad as you think

New Taskmaster series just dropped with Jason Mantzoukas for us plebs.

What really resonated with me was watching shows like Roseanne.

The article then goes on to ignore The Connors which aired from October 2018 to April 2025.

Yes, if you ignore all of the shows about "normal people", you'll suddenly find no shows about "normal people".

Are we due for a new fat man, hot wife sitcom?

I get it, but look at it this way, most of those shows do not show the rich and powerful in a flattering light E.g. Succession. So you could interpret it as Hollywood trying to shatter the glitz and glamor persona that the rich have always enjoyed.

Do yourself a favour and watch Son of a Critch..

Normal people can’t afford it like the rich can and shows about losers are depressing.

I haven't seen it but I've heard good things about Adolescence?

I was gonna say that British TV has more realistic or normal people. However I haven't seen much of that recently. It's mainly Taskmaster and Black Mirror.

I am sick of "history" shows and movies that are completely inaccurate. There are so many unbelievable stories that fiction always takes a backseat for me if I were to choose between a history or sci-fi book for example. Shogun is extremely guilty of this, it had great production but the details were sickeningly incorrect, in Japan people were pissed because it's an opportunity to teach about culture and every Japanese knows the real story and details of Tokugawa Ieyasu. Americans have already been propagandizing and manipulating history in many ways since decades past, there is much change to be done.

Check out the cartoon Aggretsuko. Not from this year but from this decade.

Yeah, it's a cartoon about anthropomorphic animals, but the characters are all very normal people, personality-wise. So normal, I got sick of watching how normal they were.

Here it is:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0287254/

That was a joke due to the English name, but Brazil is actually pretty good at making shows and movies about normal, ordinary people.

There's so much low-hanging fruit regarding topics and themes TV could be written about, but those are all "mundane" and not glamorous. The Pitt might be the closest thing to seeing normal people in a prestige show (not sure if it's considered prestige but at least it's getting a lot of attention).

For example, you could write a great drama or comedy about people moving away from a big city to work remotely from home in a small town.

Reality TV

YouTube

Why do you need a show about normal people?

You're surrounded by normal people