History Series / AMillionLittleThings

* Adorkable: Gary

* WidowWoman: Delilah.

* NumberOfObjectsTitle

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[[caption-width-right:350:Friendship is...]]

* LifesavingMisfortune:[[spoiler:17+ years before present time (2018) Jon and his old college roommate Dave were flying from Boston to Los Angeles, but Jon stops to buy a bottle of wine last minute at the gift shop, which causes him to arrive at the gate mere seconds after the flight attendant closes the gate door and she adamantly refuses to let him board. He calls Dave (already on the plane) to inform him he’ll have to catch the next flight. The missed flight was American Airlines 11 that flew into the North Tower of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. When the news plays on the gate’s TV, he and the flight attendant can only share a shocked, wordless glance to each other.[[note]]Notably they do a close up shot of her name tag, Sophie, the eventual name of Jon’s daughter.[[/note]]]]

* Manchild: The adult characters in the show display a child-like innocence.

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''A Million Little Things'' is an ABC series which debuted in the 2018-19 season. The story concerns a quartet of male friends, one of whom suddenly commits suicide, leaving the other three and his family shocked and devastated as they try to pick up the pieces and realize that their friendship probably wasn't as deep as they thought.

* TheAlcoholic: Eddie and his older sister Lindsay are estranged due to the former being a recovering alcoholic, and the latter still choosing to abuse substances. [[spoiler:The two have reconciled as of the season 2 finale, with Lindsay on the path to sobriety]].

* BigShutUp: Maggie gives three of these to the blatantly pushy lactation specialist who's been giving Delilah a hard time simply because she's having trouble breast feeding baby Charlie.

** [[spoiler: Regina: When Eve reveals she changed her mind and wants to raise her baby herself. That was a real slap in the face for her.]]
* BrokenPedestal: [[spoiler: Gary almost became this to Danny after Danny notices Gary flirting with his female Social Studies teacher in "The Kiss"]].

* NotWhatItLooksLike: [[spoiler: Rome gets accosted by a paranoid father who mistakes him for a Ephebophile taking pictures of his daughters. Rome was actually taking approved pictures of his friend's daughter for his adoption video.]]

* TookALevelInJerkass: [[spoiler: After dumping Maggie, Gary starts acting out in anger.]]

* WhatTheHellHero: [[spoiler: Rome calls out Gary for escalating a situation that lands them both into a police car. Katherine calls out Gary for being rude to Maggie.]]

* BreakTheCutie: This happens to these characters:

** [[spoiler: Maggie: upon learning her mother had lied to her about her brother Chad's death. And also learning that her friend Eric was NOT the recipient of Chad's heart, faking it the entire time. Even Maggie's mother does not know.]]
** [[spoiler: Regina: after Eve reveals she changed her mind and wants to raise her baby herself.]]
* BrokenPedestal: [[spoiler: Gary almost became this to Danny]].

* NotWhatItLooksLike: [[spoiler: Rome gets accosted by a paranoid father who mistakes him for a Ephebophile taking pictures of his daughters. Rome was actually taking pictures of Sophie for his adoption video.]]

* WhamEpisode: The season two finale has three big wham moments. [[spoiler: Eve gives birth to the baby that Rome and Regina want to adopt, only for her to change her mind and decide to keep it, Maggie heads to Oxford, but not before Gary admits that he loves her, and Eddie is about to go back to drinking due to him feeling guilty about the death of his friend Alex, but he quickly stops himself and talks to Katherine over the phone about how much he loves her, right before he gets ''[[HopeSpot hit by a pickup truck]]''.]]
* WhatTheHellHero: [[spoiler: Rome calls out Gary for escalating a situation that lands him into a police car. Katherine calls out Gary for being rude to Maggie.]]

** [[spoiler: Maggie: upon learning her mother had lied to her about her brother Chad's death. And also learning that her Eric was NOT the recipient of Chad's heart, faking it the entire time. Even Maggie's mother does not know.]]
** [[spoiler: Regina: the devastating effect after Eve reveals she changed her mind and wants to raise her baby herself.]]

* NotWhatItLooksLike: [[spoiler: Rome gets accosted by a paranoid father who mistakes him for .]]

* WhamEpisode: The season two finale has three big wham moments. [[spoiler: Eve gives birth to the baby that Rome and Regina want to adopt, only for her to change her mind and decide to keep it, Maggie heads to Oxford, but not before Gary admits that he loves her, and Eddie is about to go back to drinking due to him feeling guilty about the death of his friend Alex, but he quickly stops himself and talks to Katherine over the phone about how much he loves her, right before he gets ''hit by a pickup truck''.]]

* WidowWoman: Delilah.
* YourCheatingHeart: [[spoiler:Eddie and Delilah]] were cheating on their spouses prior to Jon's suicide, and the affair ultimately results in a pregnancy.

* BigShutUp: Maggie gives three of these to the JerkAss lactation specialist who's been giving Delilah a hard time simply because she's having trouble breast feeding baby Charlie.
* DeadGuyJunior: Zig-zagged. [[spoiler:Rome is set to name his adopted newborn son Jon when he learns that Eve, the birth mother, will be keeping the baby after all.]]

** A boy named PJ meets and bonds with Rome at the hospital because he related to Rome’s script about his [Rome’s] suicidal feelings, PJ explaining how much of his stems from feeling a huge disconnect with his father. [[spoiler:They become friends when they realize they both have connections to Jon, with PJ thinking Jon might be his biological father (his mother being Jon’s old friend and the mysterious beneficiary Barbara Morgan). When it’s revealed that neither his father nor Jon are his biological father, he feels lost and his suicidal feelings relapsing, and he goes to the roof of a building complex ready to jump, but Rome is able to talk him out of it.]]

* WhamEpisode: The season two finale has three big wham moments. [[spoiler: Eve gives birth to the baby that Rome and Regina want to adopt, only for her to change her mind and decide to keep it, Maggie heads to Oxford, but not before Gary admits that he loves her, and Eddie is about to go back to drinking due to him feeling guilty about the death of his friend Alex, but he quickly stops himself and talks to Katherine over the phone about how much he loves her, right before he gets ''hit by a pickup truck.'']]

* LifesavingMisfortune: [[spoiler:17+ years before present time (2018) Jon and his old college roommate Dave were flying from Boston to Los Angeles, but Jon stops to buy a bottle of wine last minute at the gift shop, which causes him to arrive at the gate mere seconds after the flight attendant closes the gate door and she adamantly refuses to let him board. He calls Dave (already on the plane) to inform him he’ll have to catch the next flight. The missed flight was American Airlines 11 that flew into the North Tower of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. When the news plays on the gate’s TV, he and the flight attendant can only share a shocked, wordless glance to each other.[[note]]Notably they do a close up shot of her name tag, Sophie, the eventual name of Jon’s daughter.[[/note]]]]
** In the pilot episode, Rome was just about to commit suicide via pills at his home had he not gotten the call from Gary about Jon’s death (which he only chose to answer because he got annoyed by Gary’s constant calls interrupting him). Rome discusses this when the guys are out during their traditional hockey game when Gary goes on a grieving rant about what meaningful outcome could possibly come from Jon’s death.

* YourCheatingHeart: [[spoiler:Eddie and Delilah were cheating on their spouses and Delilah soon got pregnant with Eddie's child]].

* YourCheatingHeart: Eddie and Delilah were cheating on Katherine and Jon and [[spoiler: Delilah got pregnant with Eddie's child]].

** In the pilot episode, Rome was just about to commit suicide via pills at his home had he not gotten the call from Gary about Jon’s death (which itself was only because he got annoyed by Gary’s constant calls interrupting him and chose to answer). Rome discusses this when the guys are out during their traditional hockey game when Gary goes on a grieving rant about what meaningful outcome could possibly come from Jon’s death.

** In the pilot episode, Rome was just about to commit suicide via pills at his home had he not gotten the call from Gary about Jon’s death (which itself was only because he got annoyed by Gary’s constant calls interrupting him and chose to answer). Rome discusses this when the guys are out during their traditional hockey game and Gary goes on a grieving rant about what meaningful difference could possibly come from what happened.

* SurvivorGuilt: [[spoiler: Revealed to be at least one possibility that may have led to Jon’s suicide as well as why he always had such a positive outlook and support for his friends. One flashback event shows 17+ years before present time, he invited his old college roommate Dave on a flight trip from Boston to Los Angeles but Jon gets to the gate mere seconds too late and the flight attendant refuses to let him board so he calls Dave (already on the plane) saying he’ll have to catch the next one. Said missed flight was American Airlines 11[[note]]the plane that flew into the North Tower of the World Trade Center[[/note]] on September 11, 2001. This also ties into another story arc on who the unknown beneficiary Barbara Morgan was in Jon’s will he bequeathed some of his money too; she was an old friend of Jon's and then-pregnant girlfriend of Dave, with a now-teenage son in present day.]]

* StartsWithASuicide: The series begins with a monologue, at the end of which we hear Jon throwing himself off the balcony of his penthouse.

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