My knee-jerk is that it is comedy and, if you watch them all back-to-back, you will gain something and you will lose something.
Mitchell HurwitzAt the time, I used to say, "We should market this like Everybody Loves Raymond. It's just a guy dealing with his family." Instead, it was irresistible to show all these funny people. So, I actually think this could be more inviting to a new audience because they can just watch one character, find out what's going on in his life, and then meet another character and find out what's going on in her life, and then see how it intersects the other one.
Mitchell HurwitzWe mapped out the whole movie, and then worked backwards from that to do these shows. It might not be a movie. It might be something else.
Mitchell HurwitzThe form came out of the function because it is for the audience that already knows the show, while hoping to get a new audience, too.
Mitchell Hurwitz