History SpiritualAntithesis / LiveActionTV

* ''Series/TheRighteousGemstones'', like its Creator/{{HBO}} stablemate ''Series/{{Succession}}'' (with which it airs together on Sunday nights during the summer), is about a BigScrewedUpFamily with way more money than sense. ''Succession'', however, is a dramedy about a family from [[BigApplesauce New York]] that controls a global media empire (based on the real-life [[UsefulNotes/RupertMurdoch Murdochs]]), while ''The Righteous Gemstones'' is a comedy about the family of a [[CorruptChurch crooked televangelist]] from the DeepSouth.

* ''Series/LastManStanding'' has been cited as both this and a SpiritualSuccessor to ''Series/AllInTheFamily''. Both shows are sitcoms about conservative patriarchs who [[DeliberateValuesDissonance find themselves confounded by changing social mores]], and often butt heads with their politically left-leaning wives and kids. The difference comes in who the audience is supposed to side with. While ''All in the Family''[='=]s Archie Bunker received a large MisaimedFandom of people who agreed with his views, show runner Creator/NormanLear intended him as an UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist, a [[LowerClassLout boorish reactionary]] who shut out views he disagreed with, often by BlowingARaspberry to the people voicing them in order to make them shut up. While his wife Edith, daughter Gloria, and son-in-law Mike (the last one being Archie's main comedic and political {{foil}}) weren't perfect themselves, the show generally sided with their worldview, and even Archie himself softened his ultra-conservative viewpoints in later seasons. ''Last Man Standing'', meanwhile, is more likely to take the side of its protagonist Mike Baxter. Mike is portrayed as a smart, well-educated man whose worldview was shaped by decades of traveling the world and experiencing different cultures, and one who is genuinely tied down and constrained by [[PoliticalOvercorrectness the increasingly politically correct world around him]], with his liberal daughter Kristin and son-in-law Ryan, while well-meaning and sometimes having good points, portrayed as ignorant due to their sheltered upbringings and {{hypocritical|Humor}} in their views more often than not. Also, while the Bunkers on ''All in the Family'' were working-class [[BigApplesauce New Yorkers]], with Archie employed as a foreman, the Baxters on ''Last Man Standing'' are an outdoorsy, upper-middle-class family from {{suburb|ia}}an UsefulNotes/{{Denver}}, with Mike employed as a marketing executive and his wife Vanessa a geologist.

* ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'' to ''Series/TheITCrowd''. They're both about geeks with NoSocialSkills meeting a woman who can help them deal with people, but who is lost when they start talking shop. They both also feature a rude character whose exasperation with everyone else's lack of technical knowledge is the foundation of several jokes. But, ''The IT Crowd'' is a WorkCom that mostly takes place in an unkept basement cluttered with cheap nerdy paraphernalia, while ''The Big Bang Theory'' takes place on the characters' apartment, which is always spotless and filled to the brim with valuable collectibles. The characters of Roy and Moss are contrasted with Leonard and Sheldon: Roy is rude because he doesn't care about his coworkers computer problems and never does more than the bare minimum when it comes to work, with his sidekick Moss being shy, awkward and helpful, while Leonard is too awkward to ask a girl out, but always willing to help and explain science concepts, with his sidekick Sheldon being a classic InsufferableGenius and a neat freak to boot.

* ''Series/GoodOmens2019'' to ''Series/Preacher2016''. Both shows deal with the implications of divine forces controlling the world and if GodIsGood, [[GodIsEvil evil]], or just [[GodIsFlawed flawed]], but they go about these themes in completely different ways: ''Preacher'' is about a cosmic power-struggle centering around a cynical spiritual leader in a small Texan town who was suddenly bestowed with the "[[CompellingVoice voice of God]]," having to deal with eclectic weirdos and [[HumansAreBastards monsters]] at every turn, while beings on both sides of life and afterlife try to follow a nebulous plan handed down by a narcissistic deity in a poorly-managed CrapsackWorld. Meanwhile, ''Good Omens'' is about two celestial beings, an Angel and a Demon, who we follow through the ages as they become accustomed to [[TheWorldIsJustAwesome humanity's world]] and [[HumansAreGood their fascinating foibles]], and become equally disenchanted with "God's Ineffable Plan" to [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt end the world]] and work to avert it by appealing to others' better nature and reason. ''Preacher'' was adapted from [[ComicBook/{{Preacher}} a comic book]] written by Creator/GarthEnnis, an atheist who famously said that Christianity was the worst thing to ever happen to Western society, and he wrote his book as a vicious DeconstructiveParody of a belief system he outwardly had no love or respect for, aiming to offend as many people as possible. ''Good Omens'' was adapted from [[Literature/GoodOmens a novel]] written by Creator/NeilGaiman and Creator/TerryPratchett, two men who are both believers, as an AffectionateParody that aims to be respectful, poking fun at certain aspects of the religion but ultimately highlighting the positives of faith and ending on the conclusion that GodIsGood.

* ''Series/TheVoice'' was born as a response to the perception that ''Series/AmericanIdol'', then the premier music TalentShow in the US, was focused on style over substance, and that mediocre singers often beat out great ones because they were more attractive and could play to the judges and the crowd. As such, ''The Voice'' had the judges' backs turned to the stage while the contestants sang, ensuring that they'd be judging them entirely on the basis of their musical talent rather than their appearance.