Annie Baker: A Sitcom With No Laugh Track

"I knew what I wanted it to feel like. And I knew the idea of something that looks like a sitcom, the way a sitcom feels theatrical," he said. "With no laugh track, that already a sitcom with no laugh track." The show is about three people who work in a movie theater and they just talk about big pauses. She writes them in. No time jumps. You move on the dialogue and on a moment,. Someone saying something to somebody else and that changing. A piece of news being revealed. Abigail's party two hours of talking riveting because you're really staying. That's right. Not to write joke to joke. That'sRight.