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Recent Examples of dramedy
Variety has learned that both Cola and Gomez will appear in Season 3 of the Apple TV+ dramedy in recurring roles.
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Joe Otterson, Variety, 10 Apr. 2025
The romantic dramedy, based on Lori Nelson Spielman’s bestselling novel of the same name, follows Alex Rose (Carson), a young woman feeling stuck in a rut.
—Veronica Villafañe, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025
The dramedy, written and directed by Adam Brooks (Definitely, Maybe; Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason), is now streaming on Netflix.
—Randall Colburn, EW.com, 31 Mar. 2025
Katt’s final on screen credit, according to IMDb, was in an episode of Hulu dramedy Casual in 2018.
—Marc Berman, Forbes.com, 12 Apr. 2025
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Joe Otterson, Variety, 10 Apr. 2025
The romantic dramedy, based on Lori Nelson Spielman’s bestselling novel of the same name, follows Alex Rose (Carson), a young woman feeling stuck in a rut.
—Veronica Villafañe, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025
The dramedy, written and directed by Adam Brooks (Definitely, Maybe; Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason), is now streaming on Netflix.
—Randall Colburn, EW.com, 31 Mar. 2025
Katt’s final on screen credit, according to IMDb, was in an episode of Hulu dramedy Casual in 2018.
—Marc Berman, Forbes.com, 12 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dramedy
Noun
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Examples include Africa United, a comedy about young Rwandan soccer players; The Trial of Jeff David, a true crime podcast detailing the lives of former slaves falsely accused of murder in the 1800s; and Black Enuf, a cartoon about LGBT hip-hop lovers.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
24 Apr. 2025
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The festival’s centerpiece headliner will be Deep Cover, a new action comedy from Tom Kingsley, that stars Bryce Dallas Howard, Orlando Bloom and Nick Mohammed as a group of amateur improv comedians who get sucked into the London criminal underworld.—
Jon Blistein,
Rolling Stone,
23 Apr. 2025
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The audience—both the fictional one upstate and the real one in Manhattan—soon slips into a world where human-scale beach balls and painter’s buckets become a playground for physical investigation, where the tragicomedy of real life slips in through the cracks.—
Laura Regensdorf,
Vogue,
25 Apr. 2025
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In its first glimpse of their Carabao Cup-winning team, St James’ Park gave no inclination of letting the moment go, of consigning the recent past to history books which have traditionally read like epic tragicomedy.—
Chris Waugh,
New York Times,
3 Apr. 2025
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Photo: Everett Collection Most stories about identical twins fall into the genres of horror or comedy, but A Stolen Life, one of the earliest twin movies, opts for sumptuous melodrama.—
Barry Levitt,
Vulture,
18 Apr. 2025
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But this is also Coogler’s riff on the Western, with circling buzzards and black hats; his stylish crime-flick pastiche, with sleek suits and loaded guns; and a Southern Gothic melodrama about the sins of the father and the return of prodigal sons.—
A.A. Dowd,
Rolling Stone,
17 Apr. 2025
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This will test the Jonathan Majors bodybuilding psychodrama that debuted at Sundance in 2023 but was derailed by abuse accusations against its star after winning the U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Creative Vision and a distribution deal with Searchlight Pictures, which dropped it.—
Jill Goldsmith,
Deadline,
21 Mar. 2025
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Comic pastiche gives way to tender romantic ballads only to explode in musical psychodrama.—
Charles McNulty,
Los Angeles Times,
31 Mar. 2025
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Stephen Sondheim might have enjoyed the challenge of creating a musical from such an outlandish premise.—
Charles McNulty,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Apr. 2025
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There’s probably a lot of coffee, as well as a starry-eyed love of stage performance, especially classic musicals and dance.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
23 Apr. 2025
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While King's career has been fruitful, she's also experienced tragedy in her personal life.—
EW Staff,
EW.com,
26 Apr. 2025
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Holland was attempting a routine landing when the tragedy occurred, and was not performing any stunts, Boggs said.—
Alexandra Koch,
FOXNews.com,
26 Apr. 2025
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Halle Bailey, Havana Rose Liu and Bernadette Peters have joined the untitled musical comedy, which stars Julianne Moore, Paul Giamatti and Eisenberg.—
Ethan Shanfeld,
Variety,
15 Apr. 2025
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For the rest of us, a real musical comedy is a cause for celebration; most are either too tuneless to be musicals or too dull to be comedies.—
Jesse Green,
New York Times,
11 Apr. 2025
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“Dramedy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dramedy. Accessed 3 May. 2025.
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