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* LooselyBasedOnATrueStory: The series is adapted from a memoir of the same name by barrister Alex [=McBride=] though with a SettingUpdate. The character of Will is loosely based on [=McBride=] himself.
* OedipusComplex: PlayedForLaughs in Will and Caroline's relationship. She insists on calling herself "Mummy" and keeps speculating about his sex life, and Will is not happy when he learns that Caroline is [[spoiler:having an affair with Will's potential EvilMentor Miles.]]
* OedipusComplex: PlayedForLaughs in Will and Caroline's relationship. She insists on calling herself "Mummy" and keeps speculating about his sex life, and Will is not happy when he learns that Caroline is [[spoiler:having an affair with Will's potential EvilMentor Miles.]]
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A KafkaKomedy about an idealistic, young barrister Will (Creator/WillSharpe) is shown the ropes by a worldly mentor Caroline (Katherine Parkinson).
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A KafkaKomedy about an idealistic, young barrister Will (Creator/WillSharpe) is shown the ropes by a worldly mentor Caroline (Katherine Parkinson).
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Your Cheating Heart is an index, not a trope.
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** Among the barristers, the viciously sexual Miles (who is [[YourCheatingHeart cheating on his wife with Caroline]]) is the id, the weak, performatively nice Ashley is the superego, and Caroline is the ego.
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** Among the barristers, the viciously sexual Miles (who is [[YourCheatingHeart cheating on his wife with Caroline]]) Caroline) is the id, the weak, performatively nice Ashley is the superego, and Caroline is the ego.
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** Among the pupils (excluding Will, the protagonist), Danielle is the id (as aggressive, HotBlooded, and ruthless), Liam is the ego (as the nervous posh boy who pretends to be harder than he is), and the SpoiledSweet Pia is the superego.
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** Among the pupils (excluding Will, the protagonist), Danielle is the id (as aggressive, HotBlooded, and ruthless), Liam is the ego (as the nervous posh boy who pretends to be harder than he is), and the SpoiledSweet sweet Pia is the superego.
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* LooselyBasedOnATrueStory: The series is adapted from a memoir of the same name by barrister Alex [=McBride=] though with a SettingUpdate. The character of Will is loosely based on [=McBride=] himself.
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* FreudianTrio:
** Among the pupils (excluding Will, the protagonist), Danielle is the id (as aggressive, HotBlooded, and ruthless), Liam is the ego (as the nervous posh boy who pretends to be harder than he is), and the SpoiledSweet Pia is the superego.
** Among the barristers, the viciously sexual Miles (who is [[YourCheatingHeart cheating on his wife with Caroline]]) is the id, the weak, performatively nice Ashley is the superego, and Caroline is the ego.
** Among the pupils (excluding Will, the protagonist), Danielle is the id (as aggressive, HotBlooded, and ruthless), Liam is the ego (as the nervous posh boy who pretends to be harder than he is), and the SpoiledSweet Pia is the superego.
** Among the barristers, the viciously sexual Miles (who is [[YourCheatingHeart cheating on his wife with Caroline]]) is the id, the weak, performatively nice Ashley is the superego, and Caroline is the ego.
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* ChekhovsGag: Danielle and Liam's disastrous attempts to backstab Pia via a Twitter account leaking "secrets" appear to be a one-episode joke, as they only know one other secret, that Will has kissed a juror. It comes back dramatically when [[spoiler:Will's long-suffering and suspicious girlfriend]] happens across the Twitter account and learns the truth.
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* BothSidesHaveAPoint: Will and Danielle conspiring to leak the truth about [[spoiler:Pia giving the handjob]] is ''odious'' and [[spoiler:Pia is right to be both devastated and furious]] but Pia (and Liam) are both much more privileged than Danielle and Will and are given much better jobs despite being no better at their jobs because they're upper-class.
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* CorruptTheCutie: Happens to Will throughout the first series, starting from when he cheats on his longterm girlfriend with a juror in the first episode.
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* CorruptTheCutie: Happens to Will throughout the first series, starting from when he cheats on his longterm girlfriend with a juror in the first episode. However, a bit of AlternateCharacterInterpretation when Will's longterm girlfriend [[spoiler:learns the truth]] and gives him a thoroughly deserved ReasonYouSuckSpeech, suggesting that he's actually repressed how corrupt he is from the moment he cheated on her.
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* ChekhovsGun: Caroline's favourite website,"MoreLaw.com", a gossip forum about law, which is how [[spoiler:Will leaks the gossip about Pia]] after Liam and Danielle's plans fail.
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* ArcWords: Everyone calls the law a "creaky system."
* ChekhovsGun: Caroline's favouritewebsite,"MoreLaw.website,"[=MoreLaw=].com", a gossip forum about law, which is how [[spoiler:Will leaks the gossip about Pia]] after Liam and Danielle's plans fail.fail.
* CorruptTheCutie: Happens to Will throughout the first series, starting from when he cheats on his longterm girlfriend with a juror in the first episode.
* ChekhovsGun: Caroline's favourite
* CorruptTheCutie: Happens to Will throughout the first series, starting from when he cheats on his longterm girlfriend with a juror in the first episode.
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* ChekhovsGun: Caroline's favourite website, a gossip forum about law, which is how [[spoiler:Will leaks the gossip about Pia]] after Liam and Danielle's plans fail.
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* ChekhovsGun: Caroline's favourite website, website,"MoreLaw.com", a gossip forum about law, which is how [[spoiler:Will leaks the gossip about Pia]] after Liam and Danielle's plans fail.
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A KafkaKomedy about an idealistic, young barrister Will (Creator/WillSharpe) is shown the ropes by a worldly mentor Caroline (Katherine Parkinson).
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* ChekhovsGun: Caroline's favourite website, a gossip forum about law, which is how [[spoiler:Will leaks the gossip about Pia]] after Liam and Danielle's plans fail.
* IconicItem: Will's headphones.
* OedipusComplex: PlayedForLaughs in Will and Caroline's relationship. She insists on calling herself "Mummy" and keeps speculating about his sex life, and Will is not happy when he learns that Caroline is [[spoiler:having an affair with Will's potential EvilMentor Miles.]]
* TheOphelia: Pia's transformation into one of these is a PlayedForLaughs variant after [[spoiler:Will reveals that she gave her boyfriend a hand job in chambers.]]
* SoundtrackDissonance: It's full of Will's indie music, while he and Caroline participate in the dirty tricks of law.
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* ChekhovsGun: Caroline's favourite website, a gossip forum about law, which is how [[spoiler:Will leaks the gossip about Pia]] after Liam and Danielle's plans fail.
* IconicItem: Will's headphones.
* OedipusComplex: PlayedForLaughs in Will and Caroline's relationship. She insists on calling herself "Mummy" and keeps speculating about his sex life, and Will is not happy when he learns that Caroline is [[spoiler:having an affair with Will's potential EvilMentor Miles.]]
* TheOphelia: Pia's transformation into one of these is a PlayedForLaughs variant after [[spoiler:Will reveals that she gave her boyfriend a hand job in chambers.]]
* SoundtrackDissonance: It's full of Will's indie music, while he and Caroline participate in the dirty tricks of law.
