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Emil Sit postulates about a TV drama about grad students. Here’s what would actually happen if you pitched an idea like that to a studio: they’d say, “It’s perfect! Except, maybe as a straight sitcom, instead of a drama. And instead of being about graduate scholarship, we’ll just make the whole grad school thing part of the quirky backdrop. Instead of going to lab or office hours, the characters would spend all their camera time in a coffeehouse or something, engaging in banal four-camera comedy.” [Ironically, this is one of my can’t-miss shows right now, and it just about matches that show profile. I guess I’m a sucker for snappy comedy writing and good casting.]