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* GutturalGrowler: Has a very deep, gravelly voice for a woman her age.
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* TraumaCongaLine: It is revealed that things were not easy for Lanora in season 2.
* ADayInTheLimelight: This is primarily the focus of the second season of the show - getting to see the daily life of Nadia's mother, through her own eyes.
* BlackBugRoom: Come season 2, [[spoiler: we are treated to this visual in order to represent the advancement of Nora's drug addiction - the resultant hallucinatory visuals and sensations of bugs - as well as her rapidly deteriorating mental landscape.]]
* GenerationalTrauma: Although we are presented with a less than sympathetic narrative at first, [[spoiler: we find that there are many factors behind Lanora's madness -- that it is more nuanced than Nadia or the viewer might believe it to be. Nora's parents were far from the blameless victims of a Genocide as they were thought as; the loss of the family inheritance and the profound trauma surrounding their history as Holocaust survivors was what was continuously lorded over Nora - as a form of control and emotional abuse. Much of her rebelling was in order to gain control over her life, and her continued exploitation by others was the driving force for her later disenfranchisement - resulting in drug addiction, severe paranoid delusions, enmeshment with her child and later suicide.]]
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!!!Played by: Elizabeth Ashley, Creator/AnnieMurphy (young)

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!!!Played by: Elizabeth Ashley, Creator/ElizabethAshley, Creator/AnnieMurphy (young)
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!!!Played by: Greta Lee

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!!!Played by: Greta LeeCreator/GretaLee
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* DiedOnHerBirthday: The majority of Season One is set on Nadia's birthday, and depicts her [[GroundhogDayLoop dying in a myriad of different ways and constantly being reincarnated to the same point at her birthday party]] (Although sometimes she does manage to live past midnight, dying instead in the early hours of the following morning).

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* DiedOnHerBirthday: DiedOnTheirBirthday: The majority of Season One is set on Nadia's birthday, and depicts her [[GroundhogDayLoop dying in a myriad of different ways and constantly being reincarnated to the same point at her birthday party]] (Although sometimes she does manage to live past midnight, dying instead in the early hours of the following morning).
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* DiedOnHerBirthday: The majority of Season One is set on Nadia's birthday, and depicts her [[GroundhogDayLoop dying in a myriad of different ways and constantly being reincarnated to the same point at her birthday party]] (Although sometimes she does manage to live past midnight, dying instead in the early hours of the following morning).
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* TookALevelInKindness: While she still has her own share of issues dealing with generational trauma and she is still pretty snarky and a bit selfish she is more approachable in the second season. Also, she gradually gets better over the course of the first season.

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* TookALevelInKindness: While she still has her own share of issues dealing with generational trauma GenerationalTrauma and she is still pretty snarky and a bit selfish she is more approachable in the second season. Also, she gradually gets better over the course of the first season.
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* AmbiguouslyBi: His attraction to women is legit but in the second season where he is his grandmother (and dates Lenny) Alan himself doesn't seem to oppose it, though it's not made clear if he only does because he doesn't want to interfere with the past or if he is really into guys.

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* AmbiguouslyBi: His attraction to women is legit but in the second season where he is his grandmother (and dates Lenny) Alan himself doesn't seem to oppose it, though it's not made clear if he only does it because he doesn't want to interfere with the past or if he is really into guys.
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* AmbiguouslyBi: His attraction to women is legit but in the second season where he is his grandmother (and dates Lenny) Alan himself doesn't seem to oppose it, though it's not made clear if he only does because he doesn't want to interfere with the past and likes to be in his grandma's body or if he is really into guys.

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* AmbiguouslyBi: His attraction to women is legit but in the second season where he is his grandmother (and dates Lenny) Alan himself doesn't seem to oppose it, though it's not made clear if he only does because he doesn't want to interfere with the past and likes to be in his grandma's body or if he is really into guys.
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* AmbiguousDisorder: Beatrice has referred to Alan as having some sort of mental problem, due to his desperate need for cleanliness, control and organization.He has symptoms of OCD and Aspergers. The exact nature of it is never clarified, in part due to his fear of therapists confirming he is crazy.



* AmbiguousDisorder: She suffered from an unspecified mental disorder. Her behavior, which includes irritability, buying large quantities of watermelons, and angrily smashing objects is suggestive of bipolar disorder.
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!!!Played by: Elizabeth Ashley, ''Creator/AnnieMurphy'' (young)

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!!!Played by: Elizabeth Ashley, ''Creator/AnnieMurphy'' Creator/AnnieMurphy (young)
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!!!Played by: Elizabeth Ashley

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!!!Played by: Elizabeth Ashley Ashley, ''Creator/AnnieMurphy'' (young)
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!!!Played by: Jeremy Lowell Bobb

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!!!Played by: Jeremy Lowell Bobb Creator/JeremyBobb
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!!!Played by: Charlie Barnett

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!!!Played by: Charlie BarnettCreator/CharlieBarnett
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* CloudCuckoolander: At the start of the party she's cooking one chicken for dozens of people for no apparent reason, and she's surprised that her apartment has a fire escape.

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* CloudCuckoolander: At the start of the party she's cooking one chicken for dozens of people for no apparent reason, and she's surprised that her apartment has a fire escape. Gets a disturbing upgrade later in the time loops once she is [[spoiler: the only person left dancing at Nadia's completely empty birthday party. When asked by Nadia to leave, she replies "I can't" in a tone somewhere between horror and terror.]]
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** Jossed as of season 2, with Nadia mentioning to Ruth's younger self that she'll have many husbands in the future.
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