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“This is my happening, and it freaks me out!”
— Beyond the Valley of the Dolls

Do you remember when TV shows weren’t about trauma? I don’t. Nowadays it’s a stand-in for a backstory, which in turn is a proxy for personality, at least one that feels ostensibly alive. A character’s trauma is their source of authority, and a moral cheat-sheet — for good guys …

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