History Series / Aranyelet

* AesopAmnesia: In the first two seasons [[spoiler: as well as for a good chunk of the third, before CharacterDevelopment kicks in]]:
** No matter the trouble he gets in, no matter how hurt he and his family gets, no matter how much his father keeps telling him to stop trying to go for the easy way and be a criminal, Márk just doesn't seem to grasp it at the end of the day. [[spoiler: It takes finding out his dad loves him and his revered godfather was only using him, a baby sister being born and his mother and Mira talking some sense into him, plus becoming paralyzed from the waist down, to finally learn.]]
** Whatever happens, whatever trouble she ends up making, whatever she or anyone else has to do to set it right, Janka just cannot let go of chasing money and possessions, or of her pride. [[spoiler: It takes the birth of her third child (a baby she actively tried to miscarry, no less, as abortion would have been frowned upon) almost killing her and definitely leaving one arm paralyzed and her speech slurry, both of which she seems to recover from after a long while, to finally be able to say they can handle abandoning the high life.]]
* AffectionateNickname: Her parents sometimes call Mira "Mira baba"/"Mira baby", and Bianka calls Márk "manó" ("elf/imp", the HBO subtitles translated it with "Smurf") very often. [[spoiler: When she is sent to a rehab heavily utilizing horseriding and caring for horses as therapy, she even names her horse "Manó".]]

--> [[spoiler: '''Mira''']]: What do you think will become of her?!
--> [[spoiler: '''Attila''']]: Why, what's become of you two?!
--> [[spoiler: '''Janka''']]: Murderers.

* BestServedCold: [[spoiler: Feri has been planning his revenge on Endre and Attila for over 24 years.]]
* BothSidesHaveAPoint:
** [[spoiler: When Mira tries to explain to Géza that they misunderstood Erika because she saved a lot of prostitutes, Géza counters that this doesn't make police brutality and driving someone to suicide ok.]]

** After the driving job Márk gets ends in a shootout, chase and car crash, with police sirens approaching, Márk takes the bag of money from the car and in no way tries to keep it a secret that he has money now. [[spoiler: This tips off the guy Márk was supposed to work with (who Márk thought was dead and so left in the car) that Márk took the cash.]]
* DaddyDNATest: In season 3 [[spoiler: to find out whether the third child Janka gives birth to, Enikő, is the child of Endre or Attila. The result is 100% in Attila's favour.]]
* DaddyIssues: Márk wants Attila to take him seriously, Attila wanted his father to forgive and accept him instead of berate him, Tibor [[spoiler: wanted his father to accept him and love him]], and as for Endre, the only father he ever knew was Miklós, the father of Attila and Tibor [[spoiler: and turns out Miklós only used him]].
* DeathByChildbirth: Narrowly averted. [[spoiler: Janka]] openly ignores concerns over her health and the doctor's recommendations about pregnancy in order to miscarry on purpose (as having an abortion would be frowned upon in the small village). Giving birth ''nearly'' kills her.

* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Oszi and Bianka succeed, whereas Feri only tries but is interrupted.]]

** Mira cuts her hair and shaves it almost completely off in season 3 [[spoiler: following her killing two pimps in self-defense]]. It later grows into a shortish pixie cut.
** Márk's hair is cut pretty short [[spoiler: after his repeated back injuries end up making him paralyzed from the waist down]].

* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: Before the elections, freshly pregnant [[spoiler: Janka]] is reminded that the elections are in a tiny village where news travels fast and they need the support of the Catholic Church, meaning that an abortion would mean they [[ForegoneConclusion might as well congratulate their opponent.]] So she tries her damnedest to ignore the doctor's recommendations by continuing to smoke, sometimes drink alcohol, and work out to miscarry on purpose.
* HopeSpot: [[spoiler: Attila, Endre and Feri manage to make up, they laugh along and plan happily about building a legitimate company together, even planning to get Márk in, then Janka hits Endre with a huge statue over the head.]]

* InterruptedSuicide: [[spoiler: Feri.]]

* MorningSickness: Downplayed. [[spoiler: Janka does throw up a few times before her pregnancy is announced, but it's not always just in the mornings, does not come up every single day and often is a result of seeing meat or similar things that could remind her of the fate of Endre.]]
* MultiLevelMarketingScheme: Janka does this at the start of season two - with terrible skincare products that give you rashes.
* NeverBeHurtAgain: [[spoiler: After her father tried to rape her while he was drunk, Janka ran away and promised herself nobody will ever hurt her again. She was 15.]]

** [[spoiler: Tomcsa, framed for the cop-murder, is beaten to death by police in prison, but the official story says suicide. Several people at least suspect he was murdered, even if not on whose orders.]]
** [[spoiler: After being beaten up by two separate people, one wanting her to stay quiet the other to talk, Oszi cuts her wrists in a bathtub and nobody suspects any other reason of death.]]

** [[spoiler: Mira thinks Erika Jakab from the police (with the aid of Feri) is working together with human traffickers so she gets herself hurt on purpose to get into the shelter for troubled women they take the girls from. While there she lends a phone to another girl who says she wants to call a boyfriend. This results in the shelter being found out, all the girls being taken away, Mira being narrowly saved by Erika and Erika telling her the girls were actually being brought ''back'' from brothels. Feri actually did legitimately save a lot of them... Erika having been one of them.]]

* ParentalSubstitute: Endre considered Miklós, the father of Attila, the only father Endre ever knew, whereas Márk considers Endre just as much (in fact, in the beginning, maybe ''more'') of a father than Attila. [[spoiler: Both are bitterly disappointed by their respective substitutes, though when Márk asks Attila if Endre ever really loved him, Attila's answer is a firm yes: Endre may have been a ruthless criminal and a jerk, but if he ever loved someone, it was Márk.]]

* SnowedIn: At the end of season 3, a huge blizzard prevents ambulance to arrive to pregnant [[spoiler: Janka]] before she ends up giving birth, after hours of suffering, and nearly dies.
* TalkingDownTheSuicidal: [[spoiler: The others at the rehab try this with Bianka but fail.]]
* TooDumbToLive: [[spoiler: Örs, the neo-nazi, just could not stop antagonizing the Roma gang he and Márk were held captive by even after Márk repeatedly told him to stop.]]
* TheUnfavourite: Attila's father clearly prefers Tibor, and in the eulogy said at his funeral in the early episodes of season 1, Attila is not even mentioned. Then again, he was aware of Attila's crime-laden lifestyle.
** [[spoiler: Season 3 reveals it was actually the other way around: Tibor was seen as the failure and Attila was expected to give up to hard expectations.]]

* [[UsefulNotes/VictimBlaming Victim Blaming]]:
** When Mira is sexually assaulted/kissed by the married owner of the pub she works at and his pregnant wife sees it, Mira tries to explain but the wife says Mira was at fault for "leading him on".
** Mira is seen holding a presentation about the trafficking of girls into prostitution which mentions the mentality that "they had to chose that job", ignoring that even if they did knowingly start the job, the girls' circumstances left them with practically no alternatives.
** [[spoiler: Non sexual variant: When their old pal Feri flips the car and it catches fire with him and his fiancée inside while trying to wreck the car in a safe way to get the insurance money, Endre wants to try and help but Attila says it's Feri's fault because Feri, being high as a kite at the time, drove way too fast despite Endre and Attila repeatedly warning him to slow down.]]
* WeUsedToBeFriends: Endre, Attila and Feri.

* RealityEnsues:
** Getting revenge on the pub owner who assaulted Mira felt good. The next day though, she finds out the friend who helped her in the revenge got fired for her help and later is forced to admit to Mira's part in the action during Mira's trial as part of a plea bargain.
** Márk discovers the student union/council is holding back scholarships and grants from deserving students and comes up with the idea of "loaning" the students the money that actually belongs to them, at a 10% interest rate. Next scene he's in, he and the student union members in on the action are in the dean's office and kicked out because the students complained about the high interest rates.
** [[spoiler: Janka]] openly ignores concerns over her health and the doctor's recommendations about pregnancy in order to miscarry on purpose (as having an abortion would be frowned upon in the small village). Giving birth nearly kills her.

* NotSoDifferent:
** Attila's parents clearly think Tibor is better than Attila, but when we meet him in the first or second episode, he is late for his father's funeral, does a dodgy job cutting corners at construction (making walls literally out of thick foam panels instead of brick or similar), bribes inspectors and spends the small fortune of investment money Attila gives him in a few days.
** Attila's father was seen as a respectable, if old-fashioned and sometimes stubborn, military man. Come season 2, turns out he did his fair share of shady stuff for the family. [[spoiler: Including stealing a 2-part icon from Kharkiv which is invaluable, intending to give the two halves to his two sons.]]

* YourCheatingHeart: Janka cheats on Attila with a rich guy and moves in with him at the end of season 1, then with Endre in season 2 (though she tried with Endre before when they were all young - in fact, she originally was with Endre it turns out). In season 3, Attila cheats on Janka with Barbara.

** Márk wanted to be taken seriously by his godfather and given a job. He gets a job driving a car (without a licence!), but their car is shot at, then they get into a crash due to he chase, he thinks the other guy in the car died... and it goes downhill from there.

''Aranyélet'' (lit. ''Golden Life'', more or less ''The High Life'') is a Hungarian crime drama/thriller series (based on a Finnish one) that started in 2015. As of early 2019, it has 3 seasons.

* SymbolicIntroSequence: A staple of the series.
** Season 1: [[spoiler: The family members each get an ID card or name card among the heap of other objects pertaining to them.]]
** Season 2: [[spoiler: Endre, Janka, Attila, Mira and Márk pose as if for a family picture while picture frames with pictures taken from the youth of the parents and Endre fall down and Endre, Janka, Attila, Mira and Márk first crack then fall apart.]]
** Season 3 takes the cake with several characters and plot points and threads foreshadowed: [[spoiler: a model of the construction project is built, with the odd bee (Barbara), bullet pendant necklace (Bianka), Asian rosary (Feri) and shoes with blood dripping from the high heels (the death of the two pimps). A beaming Janka and a slightly blurred Attila stand at one side, facing the camera, while Mira and Márk stand on the other, Márk with a crowbar (trying to make a place for himself) and Mira with a chain (her mission to help tackle human trafficking) behind their backs. The chain and crowbar smash into the model (the kids' tendencies to work against their parents).]]

* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: Before the elections, freshly pregnant [[spoiler: Janka]] is reminded that the elections are in a tiny village where news travels fast and they need the support of the Catholic Church, meaning that an abortion would mean they might as well congratulate their opponent. So she tries her damnedest to ignore the doctor's recommendations by continuing to smoke, sometimes drink alcohol, and work out to miscarry on purpose.

* YourCheatingHeart: Janka cheats on Attila with a rich guy and moves in with him at the end of season 1, then with Endre in season 2 (though she tried with Endre before when they were all young).

* ConspicuousConsumption: That mansion in the green belt sure looks suspiciously fancy for a family several millions in debt... Which is what makes Zsolt Komáromi, the first policeman after Hollós, suspicious of Attila and his family too (though he later admits he is aware Attila is, at most, a petty guy only good for taking a fall).

* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: Before the elections, freshly pregnant [[spoiler: Janka]] is reminded that the elections are in a tiny village where news travels fast and they need the support of the Catholic Church, meaning that an abortion would mean they might as well congratulate their opponent.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler: Mira thinks Erika Jakab from the police (with the aid of Feri) is working together with human traffickers so she gets herself hurt on purpose to get into the shelter for troubled women they take the girls from. While there she lends a phone to another girl who says she wants to call a boyfriend. This results in the shelter being found out, all the girls being taken away, Mira being narrowly saved by Erika and Erika telling her the girls were actually being brought ''back'' from brothels. Feri actually did legitimately save a lot of them... Erika having been one of them.]]

** Attila's father was seen as a respectable, if old-fashioned and sometimes stubborn, military man. Come season 2, turns out he did his fair share of shady stuff for the family.

** No matter the trouble he gets in, no matter how hurt he and his family gets, no matter how much his father keeps telling him to stop trying to go for the easy way and be a criminal, Márk just doesn't seem to grasp it at the end of the day.
** Whatever happens, whatever trouble she ends up making, whatever she or anyone else has to do to set it right, Janka just cannot let go of chasing money and possessions, or of her pride.

* ExpositoryHairstyleChange /ImportantHaircut: Mira cuts her hair and shaves it almost completely off in season 3 [[spoiler: following her killing two pimps in self-defense]].

* AesopAmnesia:

* ExpositoryHairstyleChange /ImportantHaircut: Mira cuts her hair and shaves it almost completely off in season 3 [[spoiler: following her killing two pimps in self-defense]]. She becomes even more outspoken and unwilling to deal with hypocrisy than she has been, though that process started in season 1.

* TheUnfavourite: Attila's father clearly prefers his other children, and in the eulogy said at his funeral in the early episodes of season 1, Attila is not even mentioned. Then again, he was aware of Attila's crime-laden lifestyle.

* AlcoholInducedIdiocy: Janka's drunken speech at the Beatrix festival in season 3 (where she calls out the hypocrisy and pettiness of the villages plus the neo-nazi leanings of her main supporter and her son, among other things) is a prime example. True? Yes. Does it still ruin her career? Absolutely.

* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: Mira cuts her hair and shaves it almost completely off in season 3 [[spoiler: following her killing two pimps in self-defense]].

* AlcoholInducedIdiocy: Janka's drunken speech at the Beatrix festival in series 3 (where she calls out the hypocrisy and pettiness of the villages plus the neo-nazi leanings of her main supporter and her son, among other things) is a prime example. True? Yes. Does it still ruin her career? Absolutely.