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The best TV shows throw the best parties. Holiday dinners, nights out on various towns, long-awaited proms, weddings for sitcom love interests, another Sterling Cooper office bash where everyone passes out under somebody else’s desk, that time
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. A great party makes effective comedy or drama, so many plans going wrong in a funny way or a terrible way. There is a narrative structure. Things get louder, things get quieter. Night falls, maybe the sun rises. There is climactic possibility, as subplots spread throughout a vast ensemble arrive at a single geographic space. Animosity fades in the spirit of revelry or boils over with liquid courage. Your favorite characters dance together, or kill each other.