The final question of any family drama is: Can these people stay in a room together?
“You’re an alcoholic like Dad.”
Family drama is one of the most enduring genres in fiction because it operates on the highest possible stakes: the search for identity, the need for belonging, and the terror of abandonment. Unlike other genres where the antagonist is a villain or a monster, in family drama, the antagonist is often the person who knows the protagonist best.
Not financial debt, but emotional. A parent becomes ill, and the children must decide who "owes" the most care based on how they were treated thirty years prior.
