In my opinion drama gets overused as a genre category, not just here, but on other web sites too. That is because almost any show has dramatic elements to it. So for drama to mean something, it should mean distressing and continuing problems for the main characters with emotion and the possibility of real harm.
I think overuse especially applies to shows that can be watched stand alone, that is where pretty much everything returns to normal by the end of the episode, and have only shallow drama compared to shows where main characters may have to face real ongoing difficulty. A good example here is the show Magnum PI where usually every episode wraps up with the mystery being solved and pretty much everything goes back to normal for the main characters.
Another example of overuse of the drama category is when bad things in general just do not happen to the main characters such as in kids shows. Adventure may be a better description in those cases.
The main reason I bring it up is because there is a maximum of three categories per show. And show editors should be careful before choosing drama as a category. Because there may be other better suited categories, especially if dramatic elements to the show are shallow and/or get wrapped up by the end of each episode. To me drama means that there is no status quo for the show to return to at the end of each episode and that main characters can therefore die, go to prison, or have to be hospitalized and that may be a continuing problem that main characters have to face. And therefore there is real suffering and/or danger facing the characters that continue from one episode to the next.
