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    The Bear. The show is just a bunch of people trying to process the grief of traumatic life experiences while simultaneously trying to survive the loss of a beloved person in common. All this through the power of cooking and yelling very loudly. The food is awesome though.

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    Zoeys Extraordinary Playlist. The way it shows the characters most intimate thoughts that they try to conceal from the world.

  • Suck_on_my_Presence@lemmy.world
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    I’m kinda surprised no one has said Midnight Mass. It revolves around suffering and the ideas of redemption.

    Honestly any of Flanagan’s work could be used for this question.

    The Haunting of Hill House is about loss and the grief of losing.

    Haunting of Bly Manor gets around to it slowly, but it also focuses on loss, though not entirely permanent.

    And The Fall of the House of Usher is just a sadistic chase of suffering and pain

  • Hemingways_Shotgun@lemmy.ca
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    Easy answer would be the Galactica remake. The entire show is essentially watching humanity break down because of the collective weight of what it lost as a society.

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    I think you’re asking for someone to say a particular thing so I take the bait and say: The Leftovers.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.social
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    11 hours ago

    Not shows, but video games.

    Dark Souls, Elden Ring, Death Stranding. Death Standing hit especially hard for me, since I was half-way through the game when my mom died, so the whole rest of the game I just could not apply things to that.

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      Nier: Automata has a special place in my heart and I’m seriously considering getting a tattoo of Pascal because of that story thread.

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    Not a show, but a book and a movie adaptation: Interview with A Vampire is actually about Anne Rice’s daughter.

    I was a sad, broken and despairing atheist when I wrote ‘Interview with the Vampire’ [in 1973, after the death of her daughter from leukaemia]. I pitched myself into writing and made up a story about vampires. I didn’t know it at the time but it was all about my daughter, the loss of her and the need to go on living when faith is shattered. But the lights do come back on, no matter how dark it seems, and I’m sensitive now, more than ever, to the beauty of the world – and more resigned to living with cosmic uncertainty.

    Vampires are the best metaphor for the human condition Here you have a monster with a soul that’s immortal, yet in a biological body. It’s a metaphor for us, as it’s very difficult to realise that we are going to die, and day to day we have to think and move as though we are immortal. A vampire like Lestat in Interview… is perfect for that because he transcends time – yet he can be destroyed, go mad and suffer; it’s intensely about the human dilemma.