In defense of the multicam

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About 20 years ago, single camera sitcoms staged a hostile takeover of our TVs. While the multicam sitcom isn’t dead, it’s unpopular, scoffed at, and generally regarded as less-than.

And it shouldn’t be.

Let’s back up. What makes a show single cam? At the most basic level, it means shot in several locations, out of order, with one camera at one angle at a…