I grew up on 80s-90s romantic comedies, and let me tell ya, those movies and TV shows were so unfunny, so harmful, and so toxic, that I wasn't a fan of the genre for so long.
And then, I found South Korean TV shows and series, what we here in the US lump together as "K-Dramas".
Not saying they were blameless and promoting hardcore feminist, womanist, and egalitarian values. These rom-coms were still based on stereotypes about what happens between a cisgender and heteronormative relationship, but the better written ones would spin these ideals and norms on their head. Or have a deeper indictment about how such romantic relationships are seen through a Korean society prism.
All in all, though imperfect in many ways, viewing such culturally different storytelling helped broaden my own storytelling skills.
