History Series / TheRepublicOfSarah

* TokenMinorityCouple: AJ, who's Black, and Alexis ( played by a Latina) are having an affair at the beginning (plus being a same-gender couple).

* AmbiguouslyBrown: Alexis is black-haired and olive-skinned, while played by a Latina Canadian. What Alexis' ethnicity is though hasn't been revealed.

* TokenMinorityCouple: AJ, who's Black, and Alexis (AmbiguouslyBrown, played by a Latina) are having an affair at the beginning (plus being a same-gender couple).

** Alexis is AmbiguouslyBrown (played by a Latina), and a closeted lesbian or bi woman.

* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: Bella's pursuit of Maya's approval played a role in her becoming involved in Greylock's independence, and the two are almost as close to each other as Bella is to her boyfriend Tyler.

* AmbiguouslyBrown: Alexis is black-haired and olive-skinned, while played by a Latina Canadian. What Alexis' ethnicity is though hasn't been revealed.

* BittersweetEnding: Since the series was CutShort, this is what the season-turned-series finale ends up being, though it is more sweet than bitter. On one hand, [[spoiler:Paul ends up turning himself in to the State Department against Sarah and Danny's wishes, where he will be tried and prosecuted for his whistleblower activites. Additionally, Corinne and Sarah's friendship isn't mended after it was revealed that Sarah lied to Corinne about her son's parentage]]. On the other hand, [[spoiler:the rest of the cast fares much better. With Paul turning himself in, Greylock is now cleared for official recognition by the United States. Bella gets to stay in Greylock as Sarah's intern and gets to be with Tyler. Grover is starting to accept Patience's death and move forward. Sarah was able to help AJ keep her father in the facility that he's currently in, keeping away the predatory medical company trying to purchase it. Ellen is able to stay sober and starts writing a memoir about her struggles. Corinne is able to keep Josh in Greylock, and Danny decides to stay in Greylock to be with his son and it's clear he and Corinne still have feelings for each other and will restart their romance. Maya is on her way to reconciling with her mother and is starting to love living in Greylock and being with her father. And lastly, it looks like Sarah and Grover's WillTheyWontThey relationship turns into a "They Will" after the final scene of the series shows them in bed, after sleeping with each other]].

* JumpScare: Sarah and her friends play a game with each other called "Fraidy Cat" where they try to pull this off on one another. [[spoiler: When Corinne's husband tries to pull this off on the others, he inadvertently overhears Corinne and Danny talking about when they had sex during the blizzard]]

* JerkassHasAPoint: Paul left his family behind without notice, which is terrible but when Ellen blames him for everything that happened afterward, Paul points out that it's still had no excuse for her abusing Danny.

** Another side effect of Greylock now being its own country is that anyone with banking and credit cards accounts based in the US has to pay foreign transfer fees for virtually any transaction.

** Corinne and Danny; Corinne is married and Danny is engaged but they still carry a torch for each other since their teenage days. [[spoiler:They end up actually having sex and reconnecting, and Danny breaks up with his fiance due to still being in love with Corinne. But Corinne is still married and thinks that Danny isn't the father of her son.]]

* TheGreatFlood: In "From Simple Sources", unseasonably high temperatures following closely after a massive blizzard result in flooding that threatens to completely wipe out Greylock.

** In order to get the lights back on in her new Republic, Sarah [[spoiler: sells the land containing Grover's home]]. While she loves Grover and knows how much the house means to him, she can see no other way to get the money needed to pay for Greylock's need power source.

* BittersweetEnding: Since the series was CutShort, this is what the season-turned-series finale ends up being. [[spoiler:Paul ends up turning himself in to the State Department against Sarah and Danny's wishes, where he will be tried and prosecuted for his whistleblower activites. Corinne and Sarah's friendship isn't mended after it was revealed that Sarah lied to Corinne about her son's parentage. However, with Paul turning himself in, Greylock is now cleared for official recognition by the United States. Bella gets to stay in Greylock helping Sarah and be with Tyler. Grover is starting to accept Patience's death and move forward. Sarah was able to help AJ keep her father in the facility that he's currently in, keeping away the predatory medical company trying to purchase it. Ellen is still able to stay sober and starts writing a memoir about her struggles. Danny decides to stay in Greylock to be with his son and it's clear he and Corinne still have feelings for each other and will restart their romance. Maya is on her way to reconciling with her mother and is starting to love living in Greylock and being with her father. And lastly, it looks like Sarah and Grover's WillTheyWontThey relationship turns into a "They Will" after the final scene of the series shows them in bed, after sleeping with each other]].

** Maya was conceived by a "one time thing" her mother and father had.

* SadisticChoice: In order to get funding from Lydon to maintain the newly independent Greylock's infrastructure, Sarah has to allow them to build a mine on the land containing Grover's home. She's clearly pained by the decision, but ultimately goes through with it for the sake of the town.

** As Greylock is now foreign territory, and on poor terms with its newfound national neighbors, soon armed checkpoints are established at the border to stop people from crossing until proper diplomatic ties can be established.

** Sarah and Grover are clearly into each other, but Grover is still mourning his wife who passed away prior to the events of the series. They decide to stay JustFriends, but each of them find that to be very difficult.

''The Republic of Sarah'' is a 2021 drama series on Creator/TheCW, starring Creator/StellaBaker and Creator/LukeMitchell. It is one of four currently ongoing scripted series on the network not based on an existing property.[[note]]Alongside ''Series/AllAmerican'', ''Series/InTheDark'', and ''Series/TheOutpost''.[[/note]]

* ExactEavesdropping: [[spoiler:Adam overhears Corrine and Danny discussing having sex during the blizzard, due to him hiding in the kitchen closet at just the right moment. The reason he was hiding was to JumpScare the group coming in for boozy brunch, in a darkly ironic CallBack to how the group jump scared him at the beginning of that episode (in the same location no less).]]

** Sarah learns Corrine suspects Danny may be her son's father only in 1x9, long after the audience did.
* IsThisThingStillOn: Played out dramatically, as [[spoiler:Sarah confesses to Corrine that she lied to her about Adam being the father to Josh, on a hot mic that the entire town heard, right after Sarah was done making a public presentation on how to use the surplus money.]]

** Sarah and Corrine strip to their underwear before having sex with men. Both are also beautiful.

* DerailingLoveInterests: Adam has every right to be angry with Corrine [[spoiler:after she cheats on him with Danny]], but it's hard to defend his actions later as he [[spoiler:tells Corrine to stop hanging out with Sarah, as well as filing for divorce in the middle of their reconcilation, trying to take sole custody of Josh, and smearing Corrine as a bad mother during a deposition]].

** Danny himself is suspected to be this for Josh by Josh's mother Corinne. [[spoiler:A DNA test was done and Sarah tells Corrine that Adam is the father of Josh, but she later admits that she lied, and that Danny is the father.]]

** Josh was conceived the night before Danny left Greylock, when he and Corinne had unprotected sex. Shortly after, Corinne met Adam and did this again, so when she found out that she was pregnant a month later, she convinced herself and everyone else that Adam knocked her up. [[spoiler:According to Sarah, a DNA test confirmed that Adam is the father, but she turns out to be lying, as she did not want Danny to have a reason to reconcile with Corinne]].

* DerailingLoveInterests: Adam has every right to be angry with Corrine [[spoiler:after she cheats on him with Danny]], but it's hard to defend his actions later as he [[spoiler:tells Corrine to stop hanging out with Sarah, as well as filing for divorce in the middle of their reconcilation, trying to take sole custody of Josh, and smearing Corrine as a bad mother]].

* AbusiveParents: Sarah and Danny's mother, an alcoholic, would abuse Danny when they were growing up, and ti got so bad that Danny eventually left Greylock entirely to get away from her. To her credit, though, she clearly regrets this and is willing to publicly air her dirty laundry so that Lydon can't use it against Sarah.

* DaddyDNATest: Corinne gets a paternity test done for Josh, her son, as she's unsure whether Danny or Adam is his father. [[spoiler:Sarah tells Corrine that Adam is the father, but as Sarah looked at the results, she looked like she was about to cry/be sick so it is uncertain at this stage if she was telling the truth]].

** Danny himself is suspected to be this for Josh by Josh's mother Corinne. [[spoiler:A DNA test was done and Sarah tells Corrine that Adam is the father of Josh, but this may have not been the truth.]]

** Danny got Corinne pregnant years ago before walking out on her, and she declined to get an abortion because she believed he would come back.

** Josh was conceived the night before Danny left Greylock, when he and Corinne had unprotected sex. Shortly after, Corinne met Adam and did this again, so when she found out that she was pregnant a month later, she convinced herself and everyone else that Adam knocked her up. [[spoiler:According to Sarah, a DNA test confirmed that Adam is the father, although she may be lying, as she clearly did not want Danny to have a reason to reconcile with Corinne]].

* TeenPregnancy: It's mentioned that Corinne had her son Josh as a teenager. She thinks his father is Danny, though only Danny and Corinne are aware of this at first. [[spoiler:Corrine gets a DNA test and Sarah tells her that Adam, her husband, actually fathered him, though this may have not been the truth.]]
* TheirFirstTime: Bella and Tyler arrange to have their first time together, but at first it doesn't work out as a result of the pressure. However, later they have sex-multiple times, in fact.

* WhosYourDaddy: Due to having had sex with both of them in close proximity Corrine has been uncertain for years whether Adam or Danny is her son's father. [[spoiler:It turns out Adam is, maybe.]]

* DaddyDNATest: Corinne gets a paternity test done for Josh, her son, as she's unsure whether Danny or Adam is his father. [[spoiler:Sarah tells Corrine that Adam is the father, but as Sarah looked at the results, she looked like she was about to cry/be sick, so it is uncertain at this stage if she was telling the truth]].