The setup is for a sitcom-- characters and situations familiar from real life, but exaggerated, and getting into trouble that you can see coming a mile away but they plunge right ahead at. But from schtick to schtick it's a toss-up whether the scene will play out as humor or as drama. Like the earlier series _The Cameri Five_ featuring the same core cast, this one has a postmodern reluctance to commit itself either to lightheartedness or to heavy drama, and even to consistently bring a plot to a resolution.
Review of The Bourgeoisie
