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Melodrama is when the emotion exceeds the event. A spilled glass of milk leads to a suicide attempt. To avoid this, earn your high stakes . If a character is going to cry, they must have been holding it in for twenty years. If a character throws a punch, they must have been clenching their fist since childhood.

Furthermore, family dramas allow us to process our own dysfunctions from a safe distance. Watching the Roy children tear each other apart over a media empire in Succession is cathartic not because we own a conglomerate, but because we recognize the fight for parental approval. The stakes are higher, but the emotion is universal.

While ostensibly a show about a restaurant, The Bear is a masterclass in . The entire plot is driven by the ghost of Mikey, the dead brother. The complex relationship between Richie (the "cousin") and Carmy (the blood relative) explores the idea of "chosen family" versus "blood family," and how loyalty can curdle into jealousy without therapy.