http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/television/2015/06/orange_is_the_new_black_season_3_review_why_did_the_show_lose_all_its_darkness.html

Four months ago, the Emmys tried to answer the heady question “what is comedy” by avoiding it: Whatever comedy is, the awards show decided, it happens in 30 minutes. With this rule, the Emmy judges were hoping to solve the problem of “dramedies”—goofily named, artistically flexible, increasingly prevalent TV programs that mix both comedy and drama and thus resemble life, if not a pre-existing Emmy category.