In the 1990s, family dramas were often healing ( Party of Five , Seventh Heaven ). Today, the cultural appetite is for the ruthless.

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The tension snapped when Leo quietly mentioned he’d been offered a residency in Berlin. The silence that followed was heavy with the weight of three different expectations. Elias saw it as an abandonment of the firm; Julian saw it as the freedom he never took; and Claire saw it as the cycle finally breaking.