Mistakes to Avoid - Thoughts from Reading So Many Pilots

Something that a lot of mediocre scripts have in common, whether they're about married couples or a group of young friends, is that they tend to explore the same issues in a very generic, non-character specific way.

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Here are some examples:

1. I haven't had sex in X amount of time. 
2. I don't like my job. 
3. I am struggling with the disapproval of my wife/mother/girlfriend. 
4. I have broken up with someone. 
Obviously, these are real issues. But so, so often in blah scripts, these issues are tenuously connected to character, if at all. And the issues of sex lives, professional malaise, and unhappy partner are so well-trodden, if they're not tethered to the theme/ protagonist of a script, they feel completely derivative. 
I think the reason I really started to get bored with reading new network scripts, and the thing that really makes something feel more 'cable', is that the characters have no real problems. I mean, they have a 'dry spell' or a white lie they've told, but for the most part everyone is super normal. Like an attractive, intelligent, well-balanced human being. And clearly, part of that is inherent in the relatable sitcom universe. People need to seem relatively stable and average in order to play the every-men and women who inhabit network television. But at a certain point, all of these normal, superficial, bland humans who all have the same, predictable problems just bleed together completely. And they don't feel real. 
The honest reality is, every breakup is different. Every time somebody quits their job, or struggles to get laid, it's coming from a different place. And so many pilots seem to just skip right over the unique-ness, the realness, the human-ness of those moments. It's like, watching a major life moment happen to a cardboard cutout. That feels so frustrating. 
And it's what people mean when they say things aren't grounded or character-driven, I think. 
Overall, I found myself just getting really tired of hearing about the same problems over and over and over again. Until I realized it wasn't the problems that were bothering me -- it was that it felt like in every script, the same problems were happening to the SAME EXACT PEOPLE.