I don’t know about you but I always dread watching the pilot episode of something, especially a comedy. There’s just so much to set up – and so often that setting up is done with all the subtlety of someone shouting “Wake up!” at a coma patient.
We see the main character has been asleep on the sofa: their life is a mess. They go into a scene and someone strictly barks, “[SURNAME OF MAIN CHARACTER THAT THEY HAVE NO OTHER OPPORTUNITY TO EVER INTRODUCE], you’re late!”, so that must mean it’s their boss. Try-too-hard weird banter with someone eating cereal standing up normally means they have a flatmate. Try-too-hard banter with someone else? That normally means best friend. What about a scene where they order coffee and the barista wants them to use different words for coffee than they normally use and it turns into a whole altercation? That means they are ornery (“Just a normal coffee. Black. Thank you”).
