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, specifically about angst from a character discovering that they're a clone.
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* CloningBlues: Clone Miles goes through a lot of this. He has all of the original Miles’ memories and emotional attachments, but none of it is actually ''his''. Being unable to reconcile his beliefs with reality results in a lot of grief for him, the original Miles, and Miles’ wife Kate.
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* CloningBlues: CloneAngst: Clone Miles goes through a lot of this. He has all of the original Miles’ memories and emotional attachments, but none of it is actually ''his''. Being unable to reconcile his beliefs with reality results in a lot of grief for him, the original Miles, and Miles’ wife Kate.
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* ADateWithRosiePalms: Clone Miles' love life basically becomes this to pictures of Kate. It's implied that the treatment increases the clones' sexual desire.
-->'''Dan:''' Hey, um, ever since the treatment, do you have to, like, jerk off seven times a day?
-->'''Clone Miles:''' Actually... yeah.
-->'''Dan:''' Hey, um, ever since the treatment, do you have to, like, jerk off seven times a day?
-->'''Clone Miles:''' Actually... yeah.
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* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: Despite their failings, Kate and Miles are shown to genuinely connect in the bedroom. [[spoiler:When Kate cheats on her husband with his clone, the experience is noticeably less enjoyable.]]
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* SexualKarma: Despite their failings, Kate and Miles are shown to genuinely connect in the bedroom. [[spoiler:When Kate cheats on her husband with his clone, the experience is noticeably less enjoyable.]]
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* YourCheatingHeart: [[spoiler:Kate cheats on Miles with his clone. It's a one time thing.]]
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* VorpalPillow: In the final episode, [[spoiler: Miles tries to kill his clone - and nearly succeeds - by smothering him with a pillow. He ends up having a MyGodWhatHaveIDone moment and resuscitates the clone afterwards]].
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* ContrivedCoincidence: In the season finale, [[spoiler:the FDA "arresting" Miles right before his clone can kidnap him.]]
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* ContrivedCoincidence: In [[spoiler:When the season finale, [[spoiler:the FDA "arresting" "arrested" Miles right before his clone can kidnap him.]]
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* DeathSeeker: [[spoiler:In the season finale, when Clone Miles can't bring himself to suicide, he leaves it up to Miles to end his life.]]
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* DeathSeeker: [[spoiler:In the season finale, when Clone Miles can't bring himself to suicide, he leaves it up to Miles to end his life. He ultimately can't go through with it, and instead gets into fist-fight with him.]]
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* BrilliantButLazy: Considering Clone Miles is exactly the same as Miles, only with a proper work ethic, the man could excel at his job if he could just get out of his rut. He does eventually save the Hillsman pitch after Clone Miles ditches his work responsibilities, but he does this in a much more [[ManipulativeBastard manipulative way]] than his authentic clone counterpart.
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* DeadpanSnarker: Kate has her moments.
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* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: Despite their failings, Kate and Miles are shown to genuinely connect in the bedroom. [[spoiler:When Kate cheats on her husband with his clone, the experience is noticeably less enjoyable.]]
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* ManipulativeBastard: Miles wins the support of a group of farmers for his ad campaign when he reads a sympathetic story in a farming magazine and passes it off as his own. Only one of them learns the truth and calls him out on this.
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* TookALevelInCheerfulness: Miles' clone is the personification of this, which becomes the source of Miles' jealousy.
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* ADateWithRosiePalms: Clone Miles' love life basically becomes this to pictures of Kate. It's implied that the treatment increases the clones' sexual desire.
-->'''Dan:''' Hey, um, ever since the treatment, do you have to, like, jerk off seven times a day?
-->'''Clone Miles:''' Actually... yeah.
-->'''Dan:''' Hey, um, ever since the treatment, do you have to, like, jerk off seven times a day?
-->'''Clone Miles:''' Actually... yeah.
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* PrecisionFStrike: Kate gives one of these to her client in "Va Bene" when he complains about the marble in his house.
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* PetTheDog: In a rare moment of empathy, Miles thanks his clone for helping him out with his life after dropping him off at his new apartment.
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* GenreBusting: Asking fans of the show how they would describe it is bound to lead to some hesitation. Creator/PaulRudd himself attempted in an interview:
-->'''Rudd:''' I suppose [it's] an existential comedy with hints of drama, science-fiction, [[OhWaitThisIsMyGroceryList cinnamon, and a little bit of paprika.]]
-->'''Rudd:''' I suppose [it's] an existential comedy with hints of drama, science-fiction, [[OhWaitThisIsMyGroceryList cinnamon, and a little bit of paprika.]]
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* TomatoInTheMirror: Clone Miles doesn’t realise he’s a clone until he confronts the spa workers and they reveal the truth. [[spoiler: Dan, another clone, is also unaware of his true nature until Clone Miles drives him out to the woods and shows him the body of the original Dan.]]
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* TomatoInTheMirror: Clone Miles doesn’t realise realize he’s a clone until he confronts the spa workers and they reveal the truth. [[spoiler: Dan, another clone, is also unaware of his true nature until Clone Miles drives him out to the woods and shows him the body of the original Dan.]]
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* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Both versions of Miles experience this towards the other. The original Miles hates that the clone is more positive, friendly and optimistic than he is, with a better work ethic and social skills than he possesses, to the point where he starts becoming more successful in Miles's life. The clone, however, is insecure because at the end of the day this is all the ''original's'' life; he has no past or lived experiences of his own and doesn't really know who he is, whereas Miles at least has all of this.
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* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: AlwaysSomeoneBetter:
** Both versions of Miles experience this towards the other. The original Miles hates that the clone is more positive, friendly and optimistic than he is, with a better work ethic and social skills than he possesses, to the point where he starts becoming more successful in Miles's life. The clone, however, is insecure because at the end of the day this is all the ''original's'' life; he has no past or lived experiences of his own and doesn't really know who he is, whereas Miles at least has all ofthis.this.
** Dan's popularity at work is what leads Miles to seek the spa treatment in the first place. After that, the role is flipped, with Clone Miles being the object of Dan's envy.
* {{Cliffhanger}}: Typical to Creator/{{Netflix}} original binge content, most episodes end with one of these.
** Both versions of Miles experience this towards the other. The original Miles hates that the clone is more positive, friendly and optimistic than he is, with a better work ethic and social skills than he possesses, to the point where he starts becoming more successful in Miles's life. The clone, however, is insecure because at the end of the day this is all the ''original's'' life; he has no past or lived experiences of his own and doesn't really know who he is, whereas Miles at least has all of
** Dan's popularity at work is what leads Miles to seek the spa treatment in the first place. After that, the role is flipped, with Clone Miles being the object of Dan's envy.
* {{Cliffhanger}}: Typical to Creator/{{Netflix}} original binge content, most episodes end with one of these.
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* ContrivedCoincidence: In the season finale, [[spoiler:the FDA "arresting" Miles right before his clone can kidnap him.]]
* DeathSeeker: [[spoiler:In the season finale, when Clone Miles can't bring himself to suicide, he leaves it up to Miles to end his life.]]
* DeathSeeker: [[spoiler:In the season finale, when Clone Miles can't bring himself to suicide, he leaves it up to Miles to end his life.]]
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* HappilyMarried: Miles and Kate were this initially, but things have slowly soured over the last five years. The biggest motivation for all three main characters seems to revolve around getting the relationship back to a healthy place.
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* YourCheatingHeart: [[spoiler:Kate cheats on Miles with his clone. It's a one time thing.]]
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* MamasBabyPapasMaybe: A truly bizarre example occurs towards the end of the season, when [[spoiler: Kate announces her pregnancy after having slept with both Mileses. As she says, the child could be either or both of theirs, and naturally, there's no way of ever finding out.]]
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* MamasBabyPapasMaybe: A truly bizarre example occurs towards the end of the season, when [[spoiler: Kate announces her pregnancy after having slept with both Mileses. As she says, the child could be either or both of theirs, and naturally, there's no way of ever finding out. Both Miles and the clone accept this and everyone agrees that they'll both be involved in raising the child.]]
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: If you view the two Mileses as one character in two bodies, they are evocative of someone with bipolar disorder, with the extraverted and energetic clone Miles representing manic episodes and the lazy and cynical original Miles representing depressive episodes.
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The series follows Miles Elliot (Paul Rudd), an advertising copywriter stuck in a dead-end job, a failing marriage and consequently stricken with ennui about his life. On advice from a co-worker, he decides to undergo an experimental new treatment which promises to rejuvenate him to the point where he's practically a new person. Unfortunately, Miles only realises too late that they mean this literally -- the process creates a clone of Miles (Paul Rudd) who, much to Miles's chagrin, appears to be better at living his life than Miles is. The two consequently have to figure out a way of existing with each other without completely destroying Miles Elliot's life in the process -- or killing each other.
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The series follows Miles Elliot (Paul Rudd), (Creator/PaulRudd), an advertising copywriter stuck in a dead-end job, a failing marriage and consequently stricken with ennui about his life. On advice from a co-worker, he decides to undergo an experimental new treatment which promises to rejuvenate him to the point where he's practically a new person. Unfortunately, Miles only realises too late that they mean this literally -- the process creates a clone of Miles (Paul Rudd) who, much to Miles's chagrin, appears to be better at living his life than Miles is. The two consequently have to figure out a way of existing with each other without completely destroying Miles Elliot's life in the process -- or killing each other.
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* TheAce: Clone Miles is genetically designed to be this, being athletic, charismatic, kindhearted, and intelligent. [[spoiler: [[DeconstructedTrope This is partially why Kate breaks up with him]] - he is ''too'' great, ''too'' perfect. As a regular, flawed human being, she finds trying to keep up with him exhausting.]]
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* MamasBabyPapasMaybe: A truly bizarre example occurs towards the end of the season, when [[spoiler: Kate announces her pregnancy after having slept with both Mileses. As she says, the child could be either or both of theirs, and naturally, there's no way of ever finding out.]]
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* CloningBlues: Clone Miles goes through a lot of this. He has all of the original Miles’ memories and emotional attachments, but none of it is actually ''his''. Being unable to reconcile his beliefs with reality results in a lot of grief for him, the original Miles, and Miles’ wife Kate.
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Clone Miles contemplates this, even holding a gun to his head, but ultimately does not go through with it.]]
* MamasBabyPapasMaybe: A truly bizarre example occurs towards the end of the season, when [[spoiler: Kate announces her pregnancy after having slept with both Mileses. As she says, the child could be either or both of theirs, and naturally, there's no way of ever finding out.]]]]
* TomatoInTheMirror: Clone Miles doesn’t realise he’s a clone until he confronts the spa workers and they reveal the truth. [[spoiler: Dan, another clone, is also unaware of his true nature until Clone Miles drives him out to the woods and shows him the body of the original Dan.]]
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* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Clone Miles contemplates this, even holding a gun to his head, but ultimately does not go through with it.]]
* MamasBabyPapasMaybe: A truly bizarre example occurs towards the end of the season, when [[spoiler: Kate announces her pregnancy after having slept with both Mileses. As she says, the child could be either or both of theirs, and naturally, there's no way of ever finding out.
* TomatoInTheMirror: Clone Miles doesn’t realise he’s a clone until he confronts the spa workers and they reveal the truth. [[spoiler: Dan, another clone, is also unaware of his true nature until Clone Miles drives him out to the woods and shows him the body of the original Dan.]]
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* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Both versions of Miles experience this towards the other. The original Miles hates that the clone is more positive, friendly and optimistic than he is, with a better work ethic and social skills than he possesses, to the point where he starts becoming more successful in Miles's life. The clone, however, is insecure because at the end of the day this is all the ''original's'' life; he has no past or lived experiences of his own and doesn't really know who he is, whereas Miles at least has all of this.
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* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Both versions of Miles experience this towards the other. The original Miles hates that the clone is more positive, friendly and optimistic than he is, with a better work ethic and social skills than he possesses, to the point where he starts becoming more successful in Miles's life. The clone, however, is insecure because at the end of the day this is all the ''original's'' life; he has no past or lived experiences of his own and doesn't really know who he is, whereas Miles at least has all of this.this.
* MamasBabyPapasMaybe: A truly bizarre example occurs towards the end of the season, when [[spoiler: Kate announces her pregnancy after having slept with both Mileses. As she says, the child could be either or both of theirs, and naturally, there's no way of ever finding out.]]
* MamasBabyPapasMaybe: A truly bizarre example occurs towards the end of the season, when [[spoiler: Kate announces her pregnancy after having slept with both Mileses. As she says, the child could be either or both of theirs, and naturally, there's no way of ever finding out.]]
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The series follows Miles Elliot (Paul Rudd), an advertising copywriter stuck in a dead-end job, a failing marriage and consequently stricken with ennui about his life. On advice from a co-worker, he decides to undergo an experimental new treatment which promises to rejuvenate him to the point where he's practically a new person. Unfortunately, Miles only realises too late that they mean this literally -- the process creates a clone of Miles (Paul Rudd) who, much to Miles's chagrin, appears to be better at living his life than Miles is.
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The series follows Miles Elliot (Paul Rudd), an advertising copywriter stuck in a dead-end job, a failing marriage and consequently stricken with ennui about his life. On advice from a co-worker, he decides to undergo an experimental new treatment which promises to rejuvenate him to the point where he's practically a new person. Unfortunately, Miles only realises too late that they mean this literally -- the process creates a clone of Miles (Paul Rudd) who, much to Miles's chagrin, appears to be better at living his life than Miles is.
is. The two consequently have to figure out a way of existing with each other without completely destroying Miles Elliot's life in the process -- or killing each other.
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The series follows Miles Elliot (Paul Rudd), an advertising copywriter stuck in a dead-end job, a failing marriage and consequently stricken with ennui about his life. On advice from a co-worker, he decides to undergo an experimental new treatment which promises to rejuvenate him to the point where he's practically a new person. Unfortunately, Miles only realises too late that they mean this literally -- the process creates a clone of Miles (Paul Rudd) who, much to Miles's chagrin, appears to be better at living his life than Miles is.
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!!''Living With Yourself'' contains examples of:
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!!''Living With Yourself'' contains examples of:of:
* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Both versions of Miles experience this towards the other. The original Miles hates that the clone is more positive, friendly and optimistic than he is, with a better work ethic and social skills than he possesses, to the point where he starts becoming more successful in Miles's life. The clone, however, is insecure because at the end of the day this is all the ''original's'' life; he has no past or lived experiences of his own and doesn't really know who he is, whereas Miles at least has all of this.
* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Both versions of Miles experience this towards the other. The original Miles hates that the clone is more positive, friendly and optimistic than he is, with a better work ethic and social skills than he possesses, to the point where he starts becoming more successful in Miles's life. The clone, however, is insecure because at the end of the day this is all the ''original's'' life; he has no past or lived experiences of his own and doesn't really know who he is, whereas Miles at least has all of this.
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‘’Living With Yourself’’ is an American Creator/{{Netflix}} original comedy series that premiered on October 18th, 2019.
‘’Living With Yourself’’ is an American Creator/{{Netflix}} original comedy series that premiered on October 18th, 2019.
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[[caption-width-right:350:Starring Paul Rudd Creator/{{Paul Rudd}} and Paul Rudd.Creator/{{Paul Rudd}}.]]
‘’Living ''Living With Yourself’’ Yourself'' is an American Creator/{{Netflix}} original comedy series that premiered on October 18th, 2019.
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‘’Living With Yourself’’ is an American Creator/{{Netflix}} original comedy series that premiered on October 18th, 2019.
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‘’Living With Yourself’’ is an American Creator/{{Netflix}} original comedy series that premiered on October 18th, 2019.
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