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Do you think music biopics had become too formulaic?

The goal was identifying the moments that viewers expect from Hallmark’s pleasingly formulaic programming — the apology, the kiss under the mistletoe — and finding a way to “gamify” them, Bennett says.

Movies and TV are dominated by genre storytelling held together by formulaic writing that forgoes character development, mood setting and creative plotting.

Such formulaic manipulation has long been fundamental to claims that the Israeli government represents “the Jewish people” and criticisms of its actions are “antisemitic.”

Adopting a more formulaic approach to medicine, it seems, is part of a natural evolution.