From the sun-scorched ranchlands of Yellowstone to the stormy boardrooms of Succession , and from the generational curses of One Hundred Years of Solitude to the quiet resentments in August: Osage County , one thing is clear: nothing cuts deeper than family.
Every complex family drama has a lie at its center—a hidden adoption, an affair, a financial ruin. These secrets act as a metastasizing cancer within the family structure. The drama isn't in the secret itself, but in the energy required to keep it. Characters behave irrationally to protect the lie, often youngincest better
Here’s an interesting, slightly offbeat review of — written as if critiquing the genre itself, rather than a single show or book. From the sun-scorched ranchlands of Yellowstone to the