Meanwhile, faithful viewers are rewarded with serialized elements, like character developments and relationships that evolve over the course of seasons.

What I mean by that is no one had gone on an 84-hour, serialized, nuanced exploration of a character before.

Johnson’s “Who TF Did I Marry?!?” inspired others to share their relationship nightmares in serialized fashion.

But they’re not really calling it a spinoff because the tone is different, it’s more comedic and it’s like not as serialized.

But highly serialized dramas of that era that required habitual viewing tended not to perform well in repeats, limiting their value in the syndication market.