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* DoingItForTheArt: Two InUniverse examples:
** Despite being a big name Hollywood actor, Kyle does enjoy working for the sake of art, and is usually very frustrated when his creative decisions are obstructed or questioned.
** Megan is very passionate about acting, and even accepts small roles when she likes them even after she made it big as the girlfriend of Hollywood's biggest star.
** Despite being a big name Hollywood actor, Kyle does enjoy working for the sake of art, and is usually very frustrated when his creative decisions are obstructed or questioned.
** Megan is very passionate about acting, and even accepts small roles when she likes them even after she made it big as the girlfriend of Hollywood's biggest star.
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* TheImmodestOrgasm: During the filming of "The Kill Plan", a boom operator asks Amelia Briggs to make some orgasm noises so he can test sound levels and she treats the crew to a ridiculously loud fake orgasm.
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* TheImmodestOrgasm: During the filming of "The Kill Plan", a boom operator asks Amelia Briggs to make some orgasm noises so he can test sound levels and she treats the crew to a ridiculously loud fake orgasm.FakeOrgasm.
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* FalseFriend: Terence only sees Kyle his BestFriend as a golden goose.
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* PoisonousFriend: Terence is Kyle's BestFriend, but is a terrible influence on his life, as Terence only sees Kyle as his golden goose.
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* ToxicFriendInfluence: Terence is Kyle's BestFriend, but is a terrible influence on his life, as Terence only sees Kyle as his golden goose.
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* GreyAndGreyMorality: Although there's no ''truly evil'' character here (not one CompleteMonster), no-one is completely good or bad, and this is part of the show's CentralTheme about Hollywood being "all that glitters is not gold".
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* GreyAndGreyMorality: Although there's no ''truly evil'' character here (not one CompleteMonster), here, no-one is completely good or bad, and this is part of the show's CentralTheme about Hollywood being "all that glitters is not gold".
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* WhiteAndGreyMorality: Yes, it's meant to be a DarkerAndEdgier take on Hollywood, but there are more {{Jerkass}} characters than anyone [[CompleteMonster extremely evil and psychotic]]; at best.
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* WhiteAndGreyMorality: Yes, it's meant to be a DarkerAndEdgier take on Hollywood, but there are more {{Jerkass}} characters than anyone [[CompleteMonster extremely evil and psychotic]]; psychotic; at best.
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* DarkerAndEdgier: Despite critics claiming it to be a SoapOpera, this is actually anything but one; it's fairly dark, and tackles some fairly mature topics such as NewMediaAreEvil, GildedCage and financial issues. However, it's [[ZigZaggingTrope zig-zagged]], as while it's no [[LighterAndSofter light and fluffy drama]] by any means, it's certainly no ''Series/MrRobot'' in tone, instead being a halfway house between that show and a dramedy. In its two seasons it varies between ''really'' dark and an occasional BreatherEpisode.
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* DarkerAndEdgier: Despite critics claiming it to be a SoapOpera, this is actually anything but one; it's fairly dark, and tackles some fairly mature topics such as NewMediaAreEvil, GildedCage and financial issues. However, it's [[ZigZaggingTrope zig-zagged]], as while it's no [[LighterAndSofter light and fluffy drama]] by any means, it's certainly no ''Series/MrRobot'' CrapsackWorld in tone, instead being a halfway house between that show extreme and a dramedy. In its two both seasons it varies between ''really'' dark and an occasional BreatherEpisode.
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* GreyAndGreyMorality: Although there's no ''truly evil'' character here (not one CompleteMonster), no-one is completely good or bad, and this is part of the show's CentralTheme about Hollywood being "all that glitters is not gold".
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* WhiteAndGreyMorality: Yes, it's meant to be a DarkerAndEdgier take on Hollywood, but there are more {{Jerkass}} characters than anyone [[CompleteMonster extremely evil and psychotic]]; at best.
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* RunawayFiance: Kyle's ex Lisbeth ended up abandoning him right before their wedding. [[spoiler: Megan ends up almost doing the same thing in season 2, but [=DeAnn=] convinces her to go through with it.
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* RunawayFiance: Kyle's ex Lisbeth ended up abandoning him right before their wedding. [[spoiler: Megan ends up almost doing the same thing in season 2, but [=DeAnn=] convinces her to go through with it.it]].
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* MushroomSambaMushroomSamba: After his fight with Kyle in season 1 [[spoiler:regarding Terence pimping him to a detective]], Terence deals with by going on a trip with shroom pills and an isolation tank. The sequence involves him living Kyle's life as a beloved movie star, has Megan as a RichBitch wife and has mannequins as the other members of IHM.
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''The Arrangement'' is a 2017 {{Dramedy}} from E! Entertainment.
Megan Morrison gets into an ArrangedMarriage for publicity.
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''The Arrangement'' is a 2017 American {{Dramedy}} that premiered from [[Creator/{{E}} E!Entertainment.
Entertainment]]. Created by Jonathan Abrahamsm, it was the network's second scripted series following ''Series/TheRoyals''.
Megan Morrison (Creator/ChristineEvangelista) is a young aspiring actress whose world getsinto turned upside down after an ArrangedMarriage audition gets her the romantic attention of celebrity Hollywood actor Kyle West (Creator/JoshHenderson). But Kyle is also a high ranking member and the spokesperson of IHM (The Institute of the Higher Mind), a self-help organization led by Terence Anderson (Creator/MichaelVartan) and [=DeAnn=] Anderson (Creator/LexaDoig), who control every part of Kyle's life and image. In order to be in a relationship with Kyle while protecting his brand, Megan is offered a strict marriage contract, and she soon finds herself struggling with the drama of Holywood life and the scheming of the Institute of the Higher Mind.
The show ran forpublicity.
two seasons, being canceled on [[https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/tv/ct-the-royals-canceled-20180816-story.html August of 2018]], and the story was LeftHanging.
''The Arrangement'' is a 2017 American {{Dramedy}} that premiered from [[Creator/{{E}} E!
Megan Morrison (Creator/ChristineEvangelista) is a young aspiring actress whose world gets
The show ran for
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* ArrangedMarriage: This is one of the main tropes this series, and it's also ZigZagged in that it's [[JustifiedTrope justified]] due to [[invoked]] (InUniverse) ExecutiveMeddling acting as ShipperOnDeck; [[{{Deconstruction}} deconstructed]] in that it's a fairly political marriage, a la ''Series/TheWhiteQueen'' and PlayedForDrama as well in that the question is whether Megan will have a SanitySlippage because of it.
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* AbortedArc
** Early on, Annika, the actress [=DeAnn=] hired to break up Megan and her boyfriend, starts to {{Blackmail}} [=DeAnn=] and even starts to infiltrate IHM to do so. Annika actually manages to get [=DeAnn=] to read her script and like it enough to try to get a movie out of it, but Annika still wants more, yet she's PutOnABus by near the end of season 1 and is not mentioned at all in season 2.
** Season 1 has a brief {{UST}} between Megan and Nate, the director of the play she was part of in what seems to be a LoveTriangle as her relationship with Kyle starts to deteriorate, but after she refuses one of his invitations to work with him again Nate disappears and the whole plotline doesn't go anywhere.
** In Season 2, Terence stars coaching Wes, the son of [=DeAnn=]'s lover, with the intent of turning him into an actor and making him "a new Kyle". But then Wes is suddenly PutOnABus by getting into drugs and put into rehab and isn't mentioned again.
* AccidentalMurder: It's revealed in season 1 that [[spoiler: Megan accidentally killed her stepbrother when she confronted him about raping her when they were children, and he got so angry he attacked her and she [[CrimeOfSelfDefense kills him while trying to defend herself]]. She manages to escape the place and one of his friends gets wrongfully arrested instead of her. When Terence finds out he considers this a breach of their contract due to it possibly bringing bad attention to Kyle and he has her taken to the Facility for {{Brainwashing}}]].
* ActionHero: Kyle's most famous roles are of badasses action heroes.
* AffablyEvil: As expected from the leader of a self-help organization / {{Cult}}, Terence has a polite and friendly facade, despite all the horrible things he does.
* ArrangedMarriage:This Megan being offered a marriage contract to Kyle and how this affects their lives is one on of the main tropes this themes in the series, and it's also ZigZagged in that it's [[JustifiedTrope justified]] due to [[invoked]] (InUniverse) ExecutiveMeddling acting as ShipperOnDeck; [[{{Deconstruction}} deconstructed]] in that it's a fairly political marriage, a la ''Series/TheWhiteQueen'' and PlayedForDrama as well in that the question is whether Megan will have a SanitySlippage because of it.
** Early on, Annika, the actress [=DeAnn=] hired to break up Megan and her boyfriend, starts to {{Blackmail}} [=DeAnn=] and even starts to infiltrate IHM to do so. Annika actually manages to get [=DeAnn=] to read her script and like it enough to try to get a movie out of it, but Annika still wants more, yet she's PutOnABus by near the end of season 1 and is not mentioned at all in season 2.
** Season 1 has a brief {{UST}} between Megan and Nate, the director of the play she was part of in what seems to be a LoveTriangle as her relationship with Kyle starts to deteriorate, but after she refuses one of his invitations to work with him again Nate disappears and the whole plotline doesn't go anywhere.
** In Season 2, Terence stars coaching Wes, the son of [=DeAnn=]'s lover, with the intent of turning him into an actor and making him "a new Kyle". But then Wes is suddenly PutOnABus by getting into drugs and put into rehab and isn't mentioned again.
* AccidentalMurder: It's revealed in season 1 that [[spoiler: Megan accidentally killed her stepbrother when she confronted him about raping her when they were children, and he got so angry he attacked her and she [[CrimeOfSelfDefense kills him while trying to defend herself]]. She manages to escape the place and one of his friends gets wrongfully arrested instead of her. When Terence finds out he considers this a breach of their contract due to it possibly bringing bad attention to Kyle and he has her taken to the Facility for {{Brainwashing}}]].
* ActionHero: Kyle's most famous roles are of badasses action heroes.
* AffablyEvil: As expected from the leader of a self-help organization / {{Cult}}, Terence has a polite and friendly facade, despite all the horrible things he does.
* ArrangedMarriage:
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* CelebrityIsOverrated: The CentralTheme of the series.
* ChurchOfHappyology: Because it's based on Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, this is one of the main topics of the series, although ArtisticLicenseHistory is in play here.
* ChurchOfHappyology: Because it's based on Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, this is one of the main topics of the series, although ArtisticLicenseHistory is in play here.
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* TheAtoner: Kyle [[spoiler: attempts to atone for what he did to Aaron by getting him and his sister from out of Terence's reach]].
* AwfulWeddedLife: Terence and [=DeAnn=] have a dispassionate marriage that they treat more like a business arrangement, which really starts to fall apart in season 2.
* BagOfKidnapping: When Megan is taken to the facility, someone sneaks up behind her and puts a bag on her head.
* BetaCouple: Xavier and Nacine are this in season 2, but they eventually break up when Xavier falls for Megan.
* BigBad: Terence, the manipulative leader of IHM who controls every aspect of Megan and Kyle's lives
* BlackBossLady: Nina, the IHM member in charge of The Facility is a big mean black lady. She puts on a friendly facade when Megan cooperates, but if she doesn't Nina starts to be very ruthless.
* {{Brainwashed}}: What IHM does to people who are assigned to [[BedlamHouse The Facility]]. They stay there until they fall in line with IHM's "narrative" for them.
* BrokenBird: Lisabeth, Kyle's ex becomes this by season 2, due to the fallout of hers and Kyle's messy breakup. Her career is put on hold due to constant emotional breakdowns and she's barely being able to hold a conversation with Megan.
* BrokenPedestal: A famous fictional actress, Charlotte Banks is idolized by Megan who's thrilled when she gets the opportunity to work with her. But she's dismayed to find out Charlotte is a cutthroat and ruthless actress who manipulates the situation to make herself look better than Megan during a scene, in an InUniverse case of NiceCharacterMeanActor.
* CelebrityIsOverrated: The CentralTheme of theseries.
series. All of the celebrities we meet are either a StepfordSmiler or in the process of becoming one, which is why so many of them are members of a self-help organization.
* CensorShadow: Shadows are often used to cover-up nudity or sex, although these scenes are often given a SexySilhouette effect.
* ChurchOfHappyology:Because The Institute of the Higher Mind it's a fictional self-help organization based on Tom Cruise in California and Katie Holmes, this beloved by celebrities, and is deliberately meant to be a stand-in for the many self-help organizations in Hollywood. IHM's influence on Kyle's life is one of the main topics of the series, although ArtisticLicenseHistory is in play here.here. The situation with Kyle, Megan and IHM is specifically similar to the real-life one with Creator/TomCruise, Creator/KatieHolmes and the Church of Scientology.
* AwfulWeddedLife: Terence and [=DeAnn=] have a dispassionate marriage that they treat more like a business arrangement, which really starts to fall apart in season 2.
* BagOfKidnapping: When Megan is taken to the facility, someone sneaks up behind her and puts a bag on her head.
* BetaCouple: Xavier and Nacine are this in season 2, but they eventually break up when Xavier falls for Megan.
* BigBad: Terence, the manipulative leader of IHM who controls every aspect of Megan and Kyle's lives
* BlackBossLady: Nina, the IHM member in charge of The Facility is a big mean black lady. She puts on a friendly facade when Megan cooperates, but if she doesn't Nina starts to be very ruthless.
* {{Brainwashed}}: What IHM does to people who are assigned to [[BedlamHouse The Facility]]. They stay there until they fall in line with IHM's "narrative" for them.
* BrokenBird: Lisabeth, Kyle's ex becomes this by season 2, due to the fallout of hers and Kyle's messy breakup. Her career is put on hold due to constant emotional breakdowns and she's barely being able to hold a conversation with Megan.
* BrokenPedestal: A famous fictional actress, Charlotte Banks is idolized by Megan who's thrilled when she gets the opportunity to work with her. But she's dismayed to find out Charlotte is a cutthroat and ruthless actress who manipulates the situation to make herself look better than Megan during a scene, in an InUniverse case of NiceCharacterMeanActor.
* CelebrityIsOverrated: The CentralTheme of the
* CensorShadow: Shadows are often used to cover-up nudity or sex, although these scenes are often given a SexySilhouette effect.
* ChurchOfHappyology:
* TheConsigliere: Terence is Kyle's "personal advisor" who basically influences every part of Kyle's life, both personal and professional.
* ControlFreak: Terence dislikes anything that influences Kyle or IHM that he has no control over.
* CrazyJealousGuy: Kyle is shown to be very possessive of Megan, and he fires Xavier from his movie on finds out Xavier has a crush on Megan.
* {{Cult}}: The Institute of the Higher Mind fronts as a self-help organization, but is more of a cult who will {{Brainwash}} people who do not fit their "narrative".
* DarkSecret: In season 2, Megan attempts to find out about Julie Woolth and what she knew that Terence had to make her disappear and paying her hush money. When she finally tracks down Julie she discovers [[spoiler:Julie has a paraplegic brother named Aaron who used to take acting classes alongside Kyle, and when Aaron got a part before Kyle did he snapped and beat down Aaron so bad he got stuck in a wheelchair for the rest of his life and Terence covered it all up to protect Kyle]].
* ControlFreak: Terence dislikes anything that influences Kyle or IHM that he has no control over.
* CrazyJealousGuy: Kyle is shown to be very possessive of Megan, and he fires Xavier from his movie on finds out Xavier has a crush on Megan.
* {{Cult}}: The Institute of the Higher Mind fronts as a self-help organization, but is more of a cult who will {{Brainwash}} people who do not fit their "narrative".
* DarkSecret: In season 2, Megan attempts to find out about Julie Woolth and what she knew that Terence had to make her disappear and paying her hush money. When she finally tracks down Julie she discovers [[spoiler:Julie has a paraplegic brother named Aaron who used to take acting classes alongside Kyle, and when Aaron got a part before Kyle did he snapped and beat down Aaron so bad he got stuck in a wheelchair for the rest of his life and Terence covered it all up to protect Kyle]].
* DefiantStrip: After nude photos of Megan are leaked and spread around, she decides the bold solution to the situation is to make her ''own'' naked photos, on her own terms. So Megan and Kyle end up taking selfies of themselves posing naked (with {{Pixellation}}) and spread it to the internet.
* DoingItForTheArt: Two InUniverse examples:
** Despite being a big name Hollywood actor, Kyle does enjoy working for the sake of art, and is usually very frustrated when his creative decisions are obstructed or questioned.
** Megan is very passionate about acting, and even accepts small roles when she likes them even after she made it big as the girlfriend of Hollywood's biggest star.
* TheDreaded: People who got on the bad side of IHM or at least are aware of the things they are capable are ''very'' scared of Terence. Megan herself becomes terrified of him after her stay in the facility.
* DrivenToSuicide: Terence's IHM henchmen Connor ends up shooting himself in the head when the police find out one of the girls he was responsible to take the facility ended up dying when she fought back.
* DullSurprise: Terence counsels Megan to keep her facial expressions neutral during publicity events, since any expression she makes can give the wrong impression to someone. He himself is a master of this and maintains a dull expression almost all the time.
* ExecutiveMeddling: InUniverse, Megan and Kyle get screwed by his agency in the "Kill Plan" film when they [[ExecutiveVeto replace Megan with a bigger name actress]] just to attract more publicity for the film.
* FakeRelationship: Kyle's publicity creates a story that he and his film co-star Amelia Briggs are having a fling, much to Megan's irritation.
* DoingItForTheArt: Two InUniverse examples:
** Despite being a big name Hollywood actor, Kyle does enjoy working for the sake of art, and is usually very frustrated when his creative decisions are obstructed or questioned.
** Megan is very passionate about acting, and even accepts small roles when she likes them even after she made it big as the girlfriend of Hollywood's biggest star.
* TheDreaded: People who got on the bad side of IHM or at least are aware of the things they are capable are ''very'' scared of Terence. Megan herself becomes terrified of him after her stay in the facility.
* DrivenToSuicide: Terence's IHM henchmen Connor ends up shooting himself in the head when the police find out one of the girls he was responsible to take the facility ended up dying when she fought back.
* DullSurprise: Terence counsels Megan to keep her facial expressions neutral during publicity events, since any expression she makes can give the wrong impression to someone. He himself is a master of this and maintains a dull expression almost all the time.
* ExecutiveMeddling: InUniverse, Megan and Kyle get screwed by his agency in the "Kill Plan" film when they [[ExecutiveVeto replace Megan with a bigger name actress]] just to attract more publicity for the film.
* FakeRelationship: Kyle's publicity creates a story that he and his film co-star Amelia Briggs are having a fling, much to Megan's irritation.
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* FourthDateMarriage: Megan is offered a marriage contract by Kyle's people after just ''one day'' of them being in a relationship, although it's mostly there to "protect his brand" and marriage isn't absolute certainty. But Kyle does end up proposing to her for feal merely a few months after they've been dating.
* GirlFriday: [=DeAnn=] serves as this for Kyle, as his producer she's the one who deals with most stuff about his career, although Terence likes to butt in a lot in her work, much to her irritation.
* FaceHeelTurn: In the second SeasonFinale [[spoiler: Shaun finally picks IHM over Megan, as she thinks they still can have great potential in helping people]].
* HighHeelFaceTurn: While [=DeAnn=] is a high-ranking IHM and conflict in many of Terence's plots she's usually portrayed as the ALighterShadeOfBlack and gradually grows more sympathetic. [[spoiler:In the second SeasonFinale she finally pulls a HeelFaceTurn on Terence]].
* HorribleHollywood: As Megan rises in fame, she comes to realize how horrible and filled with secrets the life of the Hollywood star can be.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Terence claims that the marriage contract he made for Megan is strict because he cares about Kyle and wants to protect him for having a repeat of the painful breakup that happened between him and Lisbeth. But then we find out [[spoiler: Lisbeth and Terence were actually having an affair which was the impetus of her and Kyle breaking up]].
* IJustWantToBeYou: During Terence's MushroomSamba sequence he finds himself in a fantasy where he's Kyle, showing that at some level he wants to have the fame Kyle enjoys.
* TheImmodestOrgasm: During the filming of "The Kill Plan", a boom operator asks Amelia Briggs to make some orgasm noises so he can test sound levels and she treats the crew to a ridiculously loud fake orgasm.
* TheJeeves: Zach is Kyle's personal assistant and butler. While he's loyal to Kyle, in season 2 is revealed he [[spoiler: lost his mother to IHM and has a score to settle against them and becomes Megan's conspirator in trying to bring them down]].
* JerkassHasAPoint: Hope's constant distrust and badmouths both IHM and Kyle, which is portrayed as her being [[GreenEyedMonster envious]] of Megan, but a lot of the things she said turn out to be correct.
* LeFilmArtistique: Megan butt heads with Nate, the headstrong director of the play she's starring because she thinks the play is too angsty and relies too much on metaphors. Surprisingly he actually listens to her and reworks the script to something more digestible.
* LoveAtFirstSight: Kyle and Megan end up falling in love during the very first time they meet at an audition.
* LoveForgivesAllButLust: Kyle never turns on Megan despite her often putting him into conflict with his loyalty to Terence and IHM... until he finds out she had a one night stand with Xavier at the second SeasonFinale after they fought and the season ends with them on hostile terms.
* LoveTriangle:
** Season 1 had a brief on between Kyle, Megan and Nate but it doesn't go anywhere and Nate is quickly PutOnABus.
** Season 2 has one between Kyle, Megan and Xavier which ends with Megan and Xavier having SexForSolace after they both end up fighting with Kyle.
* IntrepidReporter: When Megan first meets Nina in an IHM's introductory workshop, Nina is pretending to be a journalist that is investigating IHM while pretending to be a member. When she asks for Megan's help, who refuses and snitches Nina to IHM. [[spoiler: But in reality, [[TheMole Nina is actually an IHM]] and the whole thing was a SecretTestOfCharacter that Terence pulled on Megan]].
* ModestyBedsheet:
** Megan wakes up under one the first time she and Kyle sleep together.
** Kyle and Amelia Briggs use one InUniverse for their sex scene for a film, and they're actually wearing nude underwear during it.
** [=DeAnn=] and Mason both lounge in bed while each with their own bedsheet wrapped around them as they have a [[TalkingInBed post-coital discussion]].
* MsFanservice: Megan is a HeadTurningBeauty as well as the characters that most often exposes her skin in the series.
* MushroomSamba
* NakedFirstImpression: Megan accidentally gives one to Kyle's butler when she enters the bedroom in only a ModestyTowel fresh from the shower and [[DressHitsFloor drops it seductively for Kyle]] while thinking they're alone, not noticing the butler standing right beside her. She [[ShamelessFanserviceGirl tries to play it cool for a moment]] but fails and quickly breaks down in a NakedFreakOut and runs back to the bathroom while Kyle laughs.
* NearDeathExperience: In an episode of season 2, Terence is almost killed during a common robbery and the experience causes him to become more unhinged.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Megan Morrison isKatie Holmes, Creator/KatieHolmes, but not a 1:1 CaptainErsatz. Kyle is based on Tom Cruise.Creator/TomCruise.
* NoStuntDouble: InUniverse, Kyle enjoys doing his own stunts.
* NotMeThisTime: Kyle constantly puts Terence and the Institute ahead of Megan or anyone else, so when Jill and Aaron end up disappearing at the end of season 2, Megan is sure Kyle gave away their location to Terence, despite Kyle saying otherwise. In the end, it turns out [[spoiler: It was Shaun who moved them away and Kyle really had nothing to do with it]].
* NudityEqualsHonesty: In one of Terence's seminars, he has the members disrobe in front of an audience while revealing their secrets, since he thinks "physical truth leads to emotional truth". Nacine, being an actress has [[ShamelessFanserviceGirl no problem being seen without clothes]] but starts to break down when Terence starts digging on her secrets as does Shaun when it's her turn. A combination of SceneryCensor, ShouldersUpNudity and ToplessnessFromTheBack is used to conceal any actual nudity.
* GirlFriday: [=DeAnn=] serves as this for Kyle, as his producer she's the one who deals with most stuff about his career, although Terence likes to butt in a lot in her work, much to her irritation.
* FaceHeelTurn: In the second SeasonFinale [[spoiler: Shaun finally picks IHM over Megan, as she thinks they still can have great potential in helping people]].
* HighHeelFaceTurn: While [=DeAnn=] is a high-ranking IHM and conflict in many of Terence's plots she's usually portrayed as the ALighterShadeOfBlack and gradually grows more sympathetic. [[spoiler:In the second SeasonFinale she finally pulls a HeelFaceTurn on Terence]].
* HorribleHollywood: As Megan rises in fame, she comes to realize how horrible and filled with secrets the life of the Hollywood star can be.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Terence claims that the marriage contract he made for Megan is strict because he cares about Kyle and wants to protect him for having a repeat of the painful breakup that happened between him and Lisbeth. But then we find out [[spoiler: Lisbeth and Terence were actually having an affair which was the impetus of her and Kyle breaking up]].
* IJustWantToBeYou: During Terence's MushroomSamba sequence he finds himself in a fantasy where he's Kyle, showing that at some level he wants to have the fame Kyle enjoys.
* TheImmodestOrgasm: During the filming of "The Kill Plan", a boom operator asks Amelia Briggs to make some orgasm noises so he can test sound levels and she treats the crew to a ridiculously loud fake orgasm.
* TheJeeves: Zach is Kyle's personal assistant and butler. While he's loyal to Kyle, in season 2 is revealed he [[spoiler: lost his mother to IHM and has a score to settle against them and becomes Megan's conspirator in trying to bring them down]].
* JerkassHasAPoint: Hope's constant distrust and badmouths both IHM and Kyle, which is portrayed as her being [[GreenEyedMonster envious]] of Megan, but a lot of the things she said turn out to be correct.
* LeFilmArtistique: Megan butt heads with Nate, the headstrong director of the play she's starring because she thinks the play is too angsty and relies too much on metaphors. Surprisingly he actually listens to her and reworks the script to something more digestible.
* LoveAtFirstSight: Kyle and Megan end up falling in love during the very first time they meet at an audition.
* LoveForgivesAllButLust: Kyle never turns on Megan despite her often putting him into conflict with his loyalty to Terence and IHM... until he finds out she had a one night stand with Xavier at the second SeasonFinale after they fought and the season ends with them on hostile terms.
* LoveTriangle:
** Season 1 had a brief on between Kyle, Megan and Nate but it doesn't go anywhere and Nate is quickly PutOnABus.
** Season 2 has one between Kyle, Megan and Xavier which ends with Megan and Xavier having SexForSolace after they both end up fighting with Kyle.
* IntrepidReporter: When Megan first meets Nina in an IHM's introductory workshop, Nina is pretending to be a journalist that is investigating IHM while pretending to be a member. When she asks for Megan's help, who refuses and snitches Nina to IHM. [[spoiler: But in reality, [[TheMole Nina is actually an IHM]] and the whole thing was a SecretTestOfCharacter that Terence pulled on Megan]].
* ModestyBedsheet:
** Megan wakes up under one the first time she and Kyle sleep together.
** Kyle and Amelia Briggs use one InUniverse for their sex scene for a film, and they're actually wearing nude underwear during it.
** [=DeAnn=] and Mason both lounge in bed while each with their own bedsheet wrapped around them as they have a [[TalkingInBed post-coital discussion]].
* MsFanservice: Megan is a HeadTurningBeauty as well as the characters that most often exposes her skin in the series.
* MushroomSamba
* NakedFirstImpression: Megan accidentally gives one to Kyle's butler when she enters the bedroom in only a ModestyTowel fresh from the shower and [[DressHitsFloor drops it seductively for Kyle]] while thinking they're alone, not noticing the butler standing right beside her. She [[ShamelessFanserviceGirl tries to play it cool for a moment]] but fails and quickly breaks down in a NakedFreakOut and runs back to the bathroom while Kyle laughs.
* NearDeathExperience: In an episode of season 2, Terence is almost killed during a common robbery and the experience causes him to become more unhinged.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Megan Morrison is
* NoStuntDouble: InUniverse, Kyle enjoys doing his own stunts.
* NotMeThisTime: Kyle constantly puts Terence and the Institute ahead of Megan or anyone else, so when Jill and Aaron end up disappearing at the end of season 2, Megan is sure Kyle gave away their location to Terence, despite Kyle saying otherwise. In the end, it turns out [[spoiler: It was Shaun who moved them away and Kyle really had nothing to do with it]].
* NudityEqualsHonesty: In one of Terence's seminars, he has the members disrobe in front of an audience while revealing their secrets, since he thinks "physical truth leads to emotional truth". Nacine, being an actress has [[ShamelessFanserviceGirl no problem being seen without clothes]] but starts to break down when Terence starts digging on her secrets as does Shaun when it's her turn. A combination of SceneryCensor, ShouldersUpNudity and ToplessnessFromTheBack is used to conceal any actual nudity.
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* PlotIncitingInfidelity: Megan's story starts with her finding out her boyfriend cheated on her and got another girl pregnant. [[spoiler: This actually turns out to be a lie, as [=DeAnn=] hired Annika to pretend to be a girl that got pregnant in order to break them up and make Megan available to Kyle]].
* PoisonousFriend: Terence is Kyle's BestFriend, but is a terrible influence on his life, as Terence only sees Kyle as his golden goose.
* {{Polyamory}}: Terence and [=DeAnn=] have an open relationship and constantly sleep with other people on the side.
* PostCoitalCollapse: The first time we see [=DeAnn=] and Mason in bed, the scene begins with both collapsing on the bed, panting but still carefully covered by a ModestyBedsheet.
* PretendToBeBrainwashed: To get out of the [[BedlamHouse Facility]], Megan pretends to have been {{Brainwashed}} and become a devout member of IHM. In truth, she's just biding her time to find something she can use to expose them.
* RapeAndRevenge: [[spoiler: Megan ended up [[AccidentalMurder accidentally killing]] her stepbrother in [[CrimeOfSelfDefense self-defense]] when he ends up attacking her in rage when she confronts him about raping her while they were children]].
* RapeDiscretionShot: When [[spoiler: Kyle is forced by Terence to sleep with Detective Gaffey so she will drop a case against IHM, we only see him go inside the hotel room, greet her and then the [[DoorClosesEnding door closes behind him ominously]] and the scene fades]].
* RomanceOnTheSet: Given the show is about Hollywood drama, there are a few InUniverse examples:
** Kyle and Megan end up in LoveAtFirstSight after their first audition together.
** Kyle and Amelia Briggs's producing crew create rumors that they're having a fling while they're filming the "Kill Plan" purely for the publicity.
** Nate ends up falling for Megan while they both work together for the script of a play.
** In season 2, Xavier ends up having as crush for his co-star Megan while filming "Technicolor Highway", which ends up getting him kicked out of the movie when both [[CrazyJealousGuy Kyle]] and [[ClingyJealousGirl Nacine]] get jealous over it.
* RunawayFiance: Kyle's ex Lisbeth ended up abandoning him right before their wedding. [[spoiler: Megan ends up almost doing the same thing in season 2, but [=DeAnn=] convinces her to go through with it.
* ScamReligion: Terence himself doesn't believe anything he preaches has any value, he just uses him to acquire money and connections.
* SmoothTalkingTalentAgent: Neither Terence or [=DeAnn=] particularly care about what Kyle wants, they constantly manipulate his professional life for maximum profit.
* SexGod
** Megan tells her friends Kyle is one, having apparently given her four orgasms just in their first night together. [[spoiler:In a more {{Squick}} example, Detective Gaffey also compliments his prowess in bed after she coerces him into sleeping with her]].
** [=DeAnn=] also regards Annika as a SexGoddess after Annika uses her dominatrix techniques on her, [=DeAnn=] can barely muster the energy to leave the bed.
* {{Sexiled}}: One night, [=DeAnn=] finds a tie on her bedroom's door, indicating her husband has company. And while they're in an open relationship she's indignant at the idea of being exiled from her own bedroom so [[InterruptedIntimacy she barges in anyway]], which his mortified Terence's paramour and the event ends up creating a grudge between the two.
* SexyDiscretionShot: When Megan and Kyle sleep together in the first episode, we see then kissing at the beach while the [[FadeToBlack screen fades to black]] and we cut to Megan waking up in bed the morning after under a ModestyBedsheet.
* ShowerScene:
** Megan takes a shower in Kyle's luxurious bedroom in the second episode, with CensorSteam covering her up.
** Kyle and Megan have a ShowerOfLove in the same bathroom in "Surface Tension".
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: In the first two episodes Kyle's personal assistant is a man called Ben. From episode three forward and Ben vanishes from the show without explanation and he's replaced by another similar character named Zach.
* SymbolicSereneSubmersion: After breaking up with her boyfriend in the pilot, Megan is seen submerging under the pool while angsting.
* SympatheticInspectorAntagonist: {{Subverted|Trope}} with detective Gaffey. She's introduced as a detective investigating IHM who is immune to Terence's bribes or connections. But when she does get something concrete on them, instead of exposing them she [[spoiler: uses it as {{Blackmail}} to get Kyle to sleep with her]].
* AThreesomeIsHot: Terence occasionally arranges threesomes with him, [=DeAnn=] and other IHM members.
* TroubledButCute: Kyle is a troubled man with a HairTriggerTemper, a DarkAndTroubledPast and is surrounded by people who want to use him. But Megan loves him enough to stay with him despite all the issues.
* UnholyMatrimony: Terence and [=DeAnn=] is the antagonist married couple of the story, which makes scenes of them discussing their plans natural exposition for their plans. [[spoiler:Although [=DeAnn=] grows increasingly less antagonist as the series goes on, and does a HeelFaceTurn at the [[SeasonFinale season 2 finale]]]].
* UnfocusedDuringIntimacy: "Trips" starts with Megan and Kyle having unfocused, unsatisfying sex due to both having their minds preoccupied: Kyle due to [[spoiler:having been pimped by Terence]] and Megan due to having kissed Nate.
* VehicularKidnapping: IHM uses vans to transport people in and out of the facility, which often involves kidnapping them.
* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: The show centers around the Hollywood actor and actress's relationship, and is an "'amalgam' of stories inside Hollywood about arranged relationships against the backdrop of self-help programs". It's also obviously inspired by Scientology and the relationship between Creator/TomCruise and Creator/KatieHolmes.
* WebcomicTime: The progression of InUniverse time is not explained that well, but it progresses ''very'' slowly as compared toreal time.real-time.
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* PoisonousFriend: Terence is Kyle's BestFriend, but is a terrible influence on his life, as Terence only sees Kyle as his golden goose.
* {{Polyamory}}: Terence and [=DeAnn=] have an open relationship and constantly sleep with other people on the side.
* PostCoitalCollapse: The first time we see [=DeAnn=] and Mason in bed, the scene begins with both collapsing on the bed, panting but still carefully covered by a ModestyBedsheet.
* PretendToBeBrainwashed: To get out of the [[BedlamHouse Facility]], Megan pretends to have been {{Brainwashed}} and become a devout member of IHM. In truth, she's just biding her time to find something she can use to expose them.
* RapeAndRevenge: [[spoiler: Megan ended up [[AccidentalMurder accidentally killing]] her stepbrother in [[CrimeOfSelfDefense self-defense]] when he ends up attacking her in rage when she confronts him about raping her while they were children]].
* RapeDiscretionShot: When [[spoiler: Kyle is forced by Terence to sleep with Detective Gaffey so she will drop a case against IHM, we only see him go inside the hotel room, greet her and then the [[DoorClosesEnding door closes behind him ominously]] and the scene fades]].
* RomanceOnTheSet: Given the show is about Hollywood drama, there are a few InUniverse examples:
** Kyle and Megan end up in LoveAtFirstSight after their first audition together.
** Kyle and Amelia Briggs's producing crew create rumors that they're having a fling while they're filming the "Kill Plan" purely for the publicity.
** Nate ends up falling for Megan while they both work together for the script of a play.
** In season 2, Xavier ends up having as crush for his co-star Megan while filming "Technicolor Highway", which ends up getting him kicked out of the movie when both [[CrazyJealousGuy Kyle]] and [[ClingyJealousGirl Nacine]] get jealous over it.
* RunawayFiance: Kyle's ex Lisbeth ended up abandoning him right before their wedding. [[spoiler: Megan ends up almost doing the same thing in season 2, but [=DeAnn=] convinces her to go through with it.
* ScamReligion: Terence himself doesn't believe anything he preaches has any value, he just uses him to acquire money and connections.
* SmoothTalkingTalentAgent: Neither Terence or [=DeAnn=] particularly care about what Kyle wants, they constantly manipulate his professional life for maximum profit.
* SexGod
** Megan tells her friends Kyle is one, having apparently given her four orgasms just in their first night together. [[spoiler:In a more {{Squick}} example, Detective Gaffey also compliments his prowess in bed after she coerces him into sleeping with her]].
** [=DeAnn=] also regards Annika as a SexGoddess after Annika uses her dominatrix techniques on her, [=DeAnn=] can barely muster the energy to leave the bed.
* {{Sexiled}}: One night, [=DeAnn=] finds a tie on her bedroom's door, indicating her husband has company. And while they're in an open relationship she's indignant at the idea of being exiled from her own bedroom so [[InterruptedIntimacy she barges in anyway]], which his mortified Terence's paramour and the event ends up creating a grudge between the two.
* SexyDiscretionShot: When Megan and Kyle sleep together in the first episode, we see then kissing at the beach while the [[FadeToBlack screen fades to black]] and we cut to Megan waking up in bed the morning after under a ModestyBedsheet.
* ShowerScene:
** Megan takes a shower in Kyle's luxurious bedroom in the second episode, with CensorSteam covering her up.
** Kyle and Megan have a ShowerOfLove in the same bathroom in "Surface Tension".
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: In the first two episodes Kyle's personal assistant is a man called Ben. From episode three forward and Ben vanishes from the show without explanation and he's replaced by another similar character named Zach.
* SymbolicSereneSubmersion: After breaking up with her boyfriend in the pilot, Megan is seen submerging under the pool while angsting.
* SympatheticInspectorAntagonist: {{Subverted|Trope}} with detective Gaffey. She's introduced as a detective investigating IHM who is immune to Terence's bribes or connections. But when she does get something concrete on them, instead of exposing them she [[spoiler: uses it as {{Blackmail}} to get Kyle to sleep with her]].
* AThreesomeIsHot: Terence occasionally arranges threesomes with him, [=DeAnn=] and other IHM members.
* TroubledButCute: Kyle is a troubled man with a HairTriggerTemper, a DarkAndTroubledPast and is surrounded by people who want to use him. But Megan loves him enough to stay with him despite all the issues.
* UnholyMatrimony: Terence and [=DeAnn=] is the antagonist married couple of the story, which makes scenes of them discussing their plans natural exposition for their plans. [[spoiler:Although [=DeAnn=] grows increasingly less antagonist as the series goes on, and does a HeelFaceTurn at the [[SeasonFinale season 2 finale]]]].
* UnfocusedDuringIntimacy: "Trips" starts with Megan and Kyle having unfocused, unsatisfying sex due to both having their minds preoccupied: Kyle due to [[spoiler:having been pimped by Terence]] and Megan due to having kissed Nate.
* VehicularKidnapping: IHM uses vans to transport people in and out of the facility, which often involves kidnapping them.
* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: The show centers around the Hollywood actor and actress's relationship, and is an "'amalgam' of stories inside Hollywood about arranged relationships against the backdrop of self-help programs". It's also obviously inspired by Scientology and the relationship between Creator/TomCruise and Creator/KatieHolmes.
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* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Although it's a retelling of the Tom Cruise/Katie Holmes drama that played out in the tabloids during the 2000s, several quite big liberties have been taken with this in the interest of telling a better story.
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* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Although it's a retelling of the Tom Cruise/Katie Holmes drama that played out in the tabloids during the 2000s, 2000s and 2010s, several quite big liberties have been taken with this in the interest of telling a better story.
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* ArtisticLicenseCars: In the background shot of one scene is a Chrysler Stratus, a vehicle never sold in the U.S. market - although this could be explained away as a Canadian's car in the U.S.
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* DarkerAndEdgier: Despite critics claiming it to be a SoapOpera, this is actually anything but one; it's fairly dark, and tackles some fairly mature topics such as NewMediaAreEvil, GildedCage and financial issues.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Megan Morrison is Katie Holmes, but not a 1:1 CaptainErsatz. Kyle is based on Tom Cruise.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Megan Morrison is Katie Holmes, but not a 1:1 CaptainErsatz. Kyle is based on Tom Cruise.
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* DarkerAndEdgier: Despite critics claiming it to be a SoapOpera, this is actually anything but one; it's fairly dark, and tackles some fairly mature topics such as NewMediaAreEvil, GildedCage and financial issues.
issues. However, it's [[ZigZaggingTrope zig-zagged]], as while it's no [[LighterAndSofter light and fluffy drama]] by any means, it's certainly no ''Series/MrRobot'' in tone, instead being a halfway house between that show and a dramedy. In its two seasons it varies between ''really'' dark and an occasional BreatherEpisode.
* {{Filler}}: There were some episodes which were there to slow things down from the main MythArc, although these were largely also BreatherEpisode in tone too.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Megan Morrison is Katie Holmes, but not a 1:1 CaptainErsatz. Kyle is based on TomCruise.Cruise.
* PeriodPiece: A rare example of a drama set in the 2000s / TheNewTens that is a period piece, although it's recent history.
* WebcomicTime: The progression of InUniverse time is not explained that well, but it progresses ''very'' slowly as compared to real time.
* {{Filler}}: There were some episodes which were there to slow things down from the main MythArc, although these were largely also BreatherEpisode in tone too.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Megan Morrison is Katie Holmes, but not a 1:1 CaptainErsatz. Kyle is based on Tom
* PeriodPiece: A rare example of a drama set in the 2000s / TheNewTens that is a period piece, although it's recent history.
* WebcomicTime: The progression of InUniverse time is not explained that well, but it progresses ''very'' slowly as compared to real time.
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* ArrangedMarriage: This is one of the main tropes this series, and it's also ZigZagged in that it's [[JustifiedTrope justified]] due to [[invoked]] (InUniverse) ExecutiveMeddling acting as ShippersOnDeck; [[{{Deconstruction}} deconstructed]] in that it's a fairly political marriage, a la ''Series/TheWhiteQueen'' and PlayedForDrama as well in that the question is whether Megan will have a SanitySlippage because of it.
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* ArrangedMarriage: This is one of the main tropes this series, and it's also ZigZagged in that it's [[JustifiedTrope justified]] due to [[invoked]] (InUniverse) ExecutiveMeddling acting as ShippersOnDeck; ShipperOnDeck; [[{{Deconstruction}} deconstructed]] in that it's a fairly political marriage, a la ''Series/TheWhiteQueen'' and PlayedForDrama as well in that the question is whether Megan will have a SanitySlippage because of it.
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* DarkerAndEdgier: Despite critics claiming it to be a SoapOpera, this is actually fairly dark, and tackles some fairly mature topics.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Megan Morrison is Katie Holmes, but not a 1:1 CaptainErsatz.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Megan Morrison is Katie Holmes, but not a 1:1 CaptainErsatz.
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* DarkerAndEdgier: Despite critics claiming it to be a SoapOpera, this is actually anything but one; it's fairly dark, and tackles some fairly mature topics.
topics such as NewMediaAreEvil, GildedCage and financial issues.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Megan Morrison is Katie Holmes, but not a 1:1 CaptainErsatz. Kyle is based on Tom Cruise.
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* ArrangedMarriage: This is one of the main tropes this series, and it's also ZigZagged in that it's [[JustifiedTrope justified]] due to [[invoked]] (InUniverse) ExecutiveMeddling acting as ShippersOnDeck; [[{{Deconstruction}} deconstructed]] in that it's a fairly political marriage, a la ''Series/TheWhiteQueen'' and PlayedForDrama as well in that the question is whether Megan will have a SanitySlippage because of it.
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* CelebrityIsOverrated: The CentralTheme of the series.
* ChurchOfHappyology: Because it's based on Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, this is one of the main topics of the series, although ArtisticLicenseHistory is in play here.
* CelebrityIsOverrated: The CentralTheme of the series.
* ChurchOfHappyology: Because it's based on Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, this is one of the main topics of the series, although ArtisticLicenseHistory is in play here.
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''The Arrangement'' is a 2017 {{Dramedy}} from E! Entertainment.
Megan Morrison gets into an ArrangedMarriage for publicity.
!!Tropes present in TheArrangement:
* DarkerAndEdgier: Despite critics claiming it to be a SoapOpera, this is actually fairly dark, and tackles some fairly mature topics.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Megan Morrison is Katie Holmes, but not a 1:1 CaptainErsatz.
Megan Morrison gets into an ArrangedMarriage for publicity.
!!Tropes present in TheArrangement:
* DarkerAndEdgier: Despite critics claiming it to be a SoapOpera, this is actually fairly dark, and tackles some fairly mature topics.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Megan Morrison is Katie Holmes, but not a 1:1 CaptainErsatz.
