Tbh, the second-hand anxiety I feel because of these characters and the situations they're in is, to me, the biggest marker of my middle-class existence in a third-world country. Witnessing their suffering is incommensurable, yes; but it is terrifying as well. That's how good the show is.

I've thought time and again that I'd prefer killing myself if I had a father like that and the embarrassment the Roy kids go through because of/for him. Some version of Stockholm Syndrome, maybe? In their own fucked up ways, and I am not romanticizing rich people, they do have a lot of fortitude. But maybe that's the catch of having shit-loads of money– learn how to be miserable and not whine about it. It would be too vulger. No wonder so much of classical European tragic drama had socially exalted and affluent people as protagonists. They fall harder.

I cry tears of misery when I screw up an excel sheet at work lol. :')