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''Notorious'' is a drama series which aired on Creator/{{ABC}} and starring Creator/PiperPerabo and Creator/DavidSunjata.

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''Notorious'' is a drama series which aired on Creator/{{ABC}} and starring Creator/PiperPerabo and Creator/DavidSunjata.
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''Notorious'' is a drama series which aired on Creator/{{ABC}} and starring Piper Perabo and David Sunjata.

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''Notorious'' is a drama series which aired on Creator/{{ABC}} and starring Piper Perabo Creator/PiperPerabo and David Sunjata.
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Your Cheating Heart is an index, not a trope.


* YourCheatingHeart:
** Both Oscar and his wife have cheated on each other.
** In the first episode, Julia learns that her boyfriend has been frequenting prostitutes. She immediately dumps his ass.
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* BiTheWay: [[spoiler:In "The Burn Book", the victim of the week was sleeping with all three of his roommates.]]
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* FirstEpisodeSpoiler: Sarah Keaton is murdered.

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* FirstEpisodeSpoiler: FirstEpisodeTwist: Sarah Keaton is murdered.

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'''Notorious''' is a drama series which aired on ABC and starring Creator/PiperPerabo and Creator/DavidSunjata. It was cancelled after one season of ten episodes.

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'''Notorious''' [[quoteright:300:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/notorious_8.jpg]]

''Notorious''
is a drama series which aired on ABC Creator/{{ABC}} and starring Creator/PiperPerabo Piper Perabo and Creator/DavidSunjata. It was cancelled after one season of ten episodes.
David Sunjata.



The series premiered on September 2016. It was officially canceled in May 2017 after one season of ten episodes.
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* [[spoiler:AteHisGun: Levi swallows his gun in despair after Julia confronts him about his catfishing.]]

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* [[spoiler:AteHisGun: Levi AteHisGun: [[spoiler:Levi swallows his gun in despair after Julia confronts him about his catfishing.]]



* [[spoiler:DepravedHomosexual: Levi catfished Oscar not to humiliate him, but to romance him.]]
* [[spoiler:DrivenToSuicide: After his catfishing is publicly exposed, Levi kills himself, unable to deal with the knowledge that Oscar now hates him.]]

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* [[spoiler:DepravedHomosexual: Levi DepravedHomosexual: [[spoiler:Levi catfished Oscar not to humiliate him, but to romance him.]]
* [[spoiler:DrivenToSuicide: After DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:After his catfishing is publicly exposed, Levi kills himself, unable to deal with the knowledge that Oscar now hates him.]]



** In the first episode, Julia learns that her boyfriend has been frequenting prostitutes. She immediately dumps his ass.

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** In the first episode, Julia learns that her boyfriend has been frequenting prostitutes. She immediately dumps his ass.ass.
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'''Notorious''' is a drama airing on ABC and starring Creator/PiperPerabo and Creator/DavidSunjata.

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'''Notorious''' is a drama airing series which aired on ABC and starring Creator/PiperPerabo and Creator/DavidSunjata.
Creator/DavidSunjata. It was cancelled after one season of ten episodes.
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** El Toro is almost certainly a stand-in for El Chapo.
** Ronald Teller is probably a based on Fox News founder Roger Ailes.

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* [[spoiler:AteHisGun: Levi swallows his gun in despair after he is exposed.]]
* BelligerentSexualTension: Ella and Ryan spend the first few episodes verbally sparring with each other before finally throwing out all pretense.

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* [[spoiler:AteHisGun: Levi swallows his gun in despair after he is exposed.Julia confronts him about his catfishing.]]
* BelligerentSexualTension: Ella and Ryan spend the first few episodes verbally sparring with each other before finally throwing out all pretense.pretense and hooking up.
* BiTheWay: [[spoiler:In "The Burn Book", the victim of the week was sleeping with all three of his roommates.]]
* BrokenPedestal: Julia's mentor, Dana Hartman, was the first woman in the Notori-verse to lead her own news show, but destroyed her credibility when word got out that she fabricated an entire interview. The scandal destroyed her career and her friendship with Julia.


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* WhatTheHellHero:
** In "Friends and Other Strangers", Louise calls out Julia for forcing her to air footage of a beheading just to fill some dead air time.
** In "The Burn Book", Julia calls out Louise for going over her head in order to get permission to air some footage that Julia had promised to bury.
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* NiceJobFixingItHero: [[spoiler:Callie's decision to publicize Emily Parker's history as an underage webcam girl results in Emily being killed by whoever kidnapped her.]]

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* NiceJobFixingItHero: NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler:Callie's decision to publicize Emily Parker's history as an underage webcam girl results in Emily being killed by whoever kidnapped her.]]
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* {{Expy}}: The series uses several stand-ins for real-life media figures
** Paul Gregorian is an expy of celebrity attorney Mark Geragos.
** Julia George is an expy of ''Larry King Live'' producer Wendy Walker.
** Callie Connors an expy of Greta Van Susteran.


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* MissingWhiteWomanSyndrome: In "Kept and Broken", Julia is pressured into covering the case of a missing white girl in order to compete with rival Callie Connors, whose ratings have gone up after she started covering the case. After learning that the parents of the missing girl are demanding money for their interviews, she decides to instead cover the case of a missing Latina girl who's gotten no coverage.


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* NiceJobFixingItHero: [[spoiler:Callie's decision to publicize Emily Parker's history as an underage webcam girl results in Emily being killed by whoever kidnapped her.]]
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Callie Connors is very obviously based on Greta Van Susteran, with a bit of Nancy Grace thrown in for good measure.

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* BullyBrutality: In "Tell Me a Secret", the murder being attributed to Dax

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* BullyBrutality: In "Tell Me a Secret", [[spoiler:the dead football player's injuries were the murder being attributed result of two of his teammates roughing him up on orders from their coach, though it's later determined that neither of the two idiots killed him.]]
* [[spoiler:DepravedHomosexual: Levi catfished Oscar not
to Dax humiliate him, but to romance him.]]



* {{Nepotism}}: It's no secret around the office that Ryan got his job because his dad is Julia's boss. This is what drives him to go the extra mile to impress her.



* VillainWithGoodPublicity:

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* VillainWithGoodPublicity:VillainWithGoodPublicity: The main plot of "Friends and Other Strangers" concerns a much-beloved musician with a long history of charitable acts being exposed as a serial rapist.
* YourCheatingHeart:
** Both Oscar and his wife have cheated on each other.
** In the first episode, Julia learns that her boyfriend has been frequenting prostitutes. She immediately dumps his ass.
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* BelligerantSexualTension: Ella and Ryan spend the first few episodes verbally sparring with each other before finally throwing out all pretense.

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* BelligerantSexualTension: BelligerentSexualTension: Ella and Ryan spend the first few episodes verbally sparring with each other before finally throwing out all pretense.



* FirstEpisodeSpoilers: Sarah Keaton is murdered.

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* FirstEpisodeSpoilers: FirstEpisodeSpoiler: Sarah Keaton is murdered.
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'''Notorious''' is a drama airing on ABC and starring Creator/PiperPerabo and Creator/DavidSunjata.

After his client becomes a suspect in a hit-and-run incident, lawyer Paul Gregorian turns to media mogul Julia George to try and help him out. However, Julia has her own agenda, and that agenda does not necessarily benefit Paul's client. And thus begins a contentious dance between the media and the law.

!!This series contains examples of:

* TheAlcoholic:
** Oscar Keaton was sober for a while, but his wife's murder sends him off the wagon.
** When she's not doing her show, Louise is usually drinking.
* [[spoiler:AteHisGun: Levi swallows his gun in despair after he is exposed.]]
* BelligerantSexualTension: Ella and Ryan spend the first few episodes verbally sparring with each other before finally throwing out all pretense.
* BullyBrutality: In "Tell Me a Secret", the murder being attributed to Dax
* [[spoiler:DrivenToSuicide: After his catfishing is publicly exposed, Levi kills himself, unable to deal with the knowledge that Oscar now hates him.]]
* FirstEpisodeSpoilers: Sarah Keaton is murdered.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: In "Friends and Other Strangers", Julia forces Louise to present a video of a captive soldier being beheaded in order to fill the last few minutes of her show. [[spoiler:It turns out one of Louise's paramours was a soldier who was beheaded.]] Naturally, she's pissed.
* OffTheWagon: Oscar tosses out all of his sobriety after Sarah's death, to the point that Paul tries to have his employees intervene to keep Oscar from getting drunk in public.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity:

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