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Author: Lorialet

Oct 30th 2017 at 9:58:19 AM

* In ''Series/{{UnbreakableKimmySchmidt}}'', the elderly CloudCuckooLander Lilian Kaustupper worships her decaying, crime-ridden neighborhood as a sort of vague benevolent force/natural order, and tries to make it appear worse than it is to avoid the intrusion of outsiders and its eventual gentrification. What starts as a comedic subplot becomes arguably the most important plotline of the show, and gets increasingly serious as episodes pass. Her situation is made all the more poignant in that, after accidentally killing her husband, the lost souls she takes under her wing are the only family she has. Those people (for instance a CampGay black singer who can't get a role in the Lion King musical because he can't pass as a straight giraffe and the ChildBride of the leader of an apocalypse cult whose naivete and tragic backstory keep being exploited) are constantly rejected by society, and it's shown that their little DysfunctionJunction is the only place in which they can be safe and happy. Eventually she becomes a heroic champion of her people and has to enter politics to defend everyone's interest.