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A Simple Favor

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A Simple Favor is a 2018 black comedy Mystery Fiction thriller film directed by Paul Feig and based on the 2017 novel of the same name by Darcey Bell.Emily Nelson (Blake Lively) is a married and wealthy young mother who suddenly disappears. When her best friend, mommy vlogger Stephanie Smothers (Anna Kendrick), and her husband Sean (Henry Golding) begin to investigate the case, secrets and betrayals soon abound. Andrew Rannells, Linda Cardellini, Jean Smart and Dustin Milligan also star.In May 2022, a sequel was announced with Kendrick and Lively reprising their roles, and Feig returning to direct.Due to the many twists and turns in the film, many of the trope names are spoilers. Proceed with caution.
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No Celebrities Were Harmed
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No Celebrities Were Harmed: Stephanie disparagingly compares Emily's boss to a worse Tom Ford.
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Symbolic Glass House
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Symbolic Glass House: Emily and Sean live in a majority-glass house that works perfectly for their opulent life that's actually hiding secrets. Exaggerated when Stephanie moves in there and often creeps around by the large windows, worrying that someone will find out about her and Sean's relationship.
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Hands-Off Parenting
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Hands-Off Parenting: Emily, to the point that part of her getting closer to Stephanie is so she'd worry even less about Nicky.
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Title Drop
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Title Drop: Stephanie refers to picking up Nicky from school as "a simple favor" early in the film.
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Never Trust a Trailer
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Never Trust a Trailer: The trailers completely omit the film's comedic elements, making it seem like a straight mystery thriller.
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The Dandy
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The Dandy: Emily's fashion designer boss.
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Adaptational Villainy
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Adaptational Villainy: The film eventually reveals Faith to be its hidden secondary antagonist, as she tries to blackmail Emily/Hope for $1 million in exchange for her silence regarding their roles in their father's death. Meanwhile, Evelyn (Faith's counterpart in the novel) eventually decides to die because her sister needs to get out of debt and she doesn't have much to live for. Having encouraged her to go through with it, Emily sits back and allows her drunk, high sister to go swimming... knowing that she won't come back.
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Failed a Spot Check
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Failed a Spot Check: In two cases, both justified. When "Emily" is found in the lake, she is curiously without the small mole on the right side of her face. The lack of such a distinguishing characteristic WOULD raise some suspicions... except for the fact that "Emily" also has the same wrist tattoo, the same DNA, and as far as everyone knows, she had no living family. During the movie's climax, Emily fails to notice a car speeding towards her as she's about to shoot Stephanie. Also immediately lampshaded, as Darren immediately gloats that his hybrid's silent engine allowed him to do that.
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Chekhov's Gag
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Chekhov's Gag: The nude painting of Emily, a source of a few gags early on, ultimately leads Stephanie to its painter, which in turn leads to the truth about Emily.
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Chekhov's Gun
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Chekhov's Gun: Stephanie's vlog, which is at first a cute framing device, later becomes important as its viewers send her tips to help her find Emily. She also utilizes it to expose Emily as a murderer. A literal one is the ivory-handle revolver Stephanie finds while cleaning Emily's closet. It is loaded with blanks and used to "shoot" Sean during the final confrontation of the film.
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Ironic Name
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Ironic Name: Hope and Faith's upbringing was neither hopeful nor faithful.
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TheUnReveal
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The Un-Reveal: The true identity of Miles' father is not revealed. It is not confirmed if Sean was actually having an affair with his T.A.
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Funny Background Event
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Funny Background Event: During the segments that show Stephanie's vlog, you can actually see the comments her viewers are leaving, and some of them are quite amusing.
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Running Over the Plot
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Running Over the Plot: Inverted. The day is saved when Darren runs over Emily just as she was about to shoot Stephanie, which doesn't kill her, but does leave her unable to flee when the police arrive.
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Sickeningly Sweethearts
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Sickeningly Sweethearts: When first introduced to Sean, Stephanie has to awkwardly look away because he and Emily can't keep their hands off each other.
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Hidden Depths
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Hidden Depths: Stephanie is revealed to have quite a talent for investigation and detective work. After the events of the film she opens a part-time detective agency.
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Depraved Bisexual
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Depraved Bisexual: Emily seems to be willingly capable of... anything, really, especially if it serves her plans; it’s never quite clear if she’s in the totally amoral category, or just the casually manipulative. Emily is into men and has a husband but later kind of seduces Stephanie. Emily is discovered to be a killer who faked her own death and had a twisted plan. It's also implied she's been involved with Diana, a lesbian who also painted her nude many times in the past.
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Apologetic Attacker
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Apologetic Attacker: Emily/Hope apologizes to Faith just before drowning her.
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Hollywood Law
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Hollywood Law: In reality, Emily/Hope almost definitely would get life without parole if she had been convicted of two premeditated murders plus attempted murder, not simply twenty years.
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Not Helping Your Case
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Not Helping Your Case: To browbeat Dennis into letting her go without calling the cops, Stephanie threatens to tell her viewers that he, among other things, uses Indonesian child laborers. His response?
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The Rich Have White Stuff
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The Rich Have White Stuff: Emily and Sean's house has a very polished white and gray color scheme.
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Engineered Public Confession
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Engineered Public Confession: Stephanie turns out to be recording everything and streaming it live on her vlog as Emily recounts her plan.
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Batman Gambit
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Batman Gambit: Stephanie and Sean pull an elaborate one on Emily making her think they underestimated her, making her think Stephanie fell for her lie about Sean being in love with her. She then shoots Sean to try and get Emily to confess out of sympathy. Emily doesn't buy it, obviously. Though this was a ruse to throw Emily off while she confessed, thinking they had no way to record her, while in fact Stephanie was live streaming the entire encounter via a Nanny Cam on her dress. The only thing the two probably didn't plan for was Sean getting shot in the shoulder for real by Emily.
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Took a Level in Kindness
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Took a Level in Kindness: Darren, particularly after Emily supposedly dies, goes from badmouthing Stephanie behind her back to openly being supportive of her.
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Make It Look Like an Accident
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Make It Look Like an Accident: Emily's "death". She murdered her identical twin sister, making her look like herself and that she accidentally drowned to disappear.
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Parental Substitute
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Parental Substitute: Despite her insistence that she doesn't want to replace Emily, Stephanie does take on a very motherly role to Nicky. The poor kid probably needs it, after everything he goes through.
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Adaptational Heroism
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Adaptational Heroism: In the novel, Sean was gaslighting Stephanie because he and Emily planned the whole thing together. In the film, he genuinely believes Emily is dead.
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Love Dodecahedron
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Love Dodecahedron: Emily is married to Sean. After she is (apparently) dead, Sean begins seeing her friend Stephanie. Then Emily turns up alive, with it implied that she's attracted to Stephanie, who also seems into the idea.
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Cradling Your Kill
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Cradling Your Kill: After drowning Faith, Emily takes her into her arms and holds her for a few moments.
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Long-Lost Relative
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Long-Lost Relative: Stephanie first met her half-brother when he came to their dad's funeral, as he'd been the result of an affair. Prior to that she didn't know he existed.
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Bad Influencer
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Bad Influencer: Downplayed. Stephanie is a mommy blogger who pretends to have her life together, but is actually a chaotic, friendless mom whose big secret is that her (dead) half-brother might have fathered her son.
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Adaptational Alternate Ending
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Adaptational Alternate Ending: The end of the movie sees Emily getting a 20-year prison sentence and Stephanie starting a detective business. The novel's ending is much different. Emily successfully frames both Sean and Stephanie for murder before fleeing to Europe with her son, becoming a Karma Houdini in the process.
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Genre Roulette
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Genre Roulette: Contains elements of black comedy, Mystery Fiction, and thriller.
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One Head Taller
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One Head Taller: Emily, played by the 5’10” Blake Lively, absolutely towers over Stephanie, played by the 5’2” Anna Kendrick. It serves to highlight the class difference between the two, the fact that Emily is usually wearing high heels only making it more pronounced.
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Wham Shot
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Wham Shot: Stephanie, after moving in with Sean, clears Emily's old clothes out of the closet to make room for her own. She returns with a box of her own stuff not even an hour later... and finds all of Emily's things put back, as if they were never touched. A picture of teenage twin sisters... who look exactly like Emily.
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Wounded Gazelle Gambit
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Wounded Gazelle Gambit: Emily attempts to frame her husband by making him look like an abusive asshole, and herself like a battered victim. She almost pulls it off.
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Glamorous Single Mother
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Glamorous Single Mother: Downplayed by Stephanie, a widow who doesn't have an income of her own, but seems to be doing well for herself (she and her husband already owned their house when he died, so at least Stephanie and her son definitely have a roof over their heads). It's revealed her husband had really good insurance, so there's enough for her and her son to live on... for now. Stephanie admits to Emily that she's done the math, and the money will run out in three years' time, hence why she's trying to turn her vlog into a business. After Emily's "death," Sean starts helping Stephanie out, even inviting her and Miles to move in despite it being so soon. In the epilogue, Stephanie has a detective business as well as a morning show, meaning this trope is now fully justified.
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It's All My Fault
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It's All My Fault: Stephanie tearfully says this after recounting how her husband and half-brother died in a car accident while driving together, because they had driven off fighting about her. Emily assures her that's untrue, and she can't blame herself.
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Love Forgives All but Lust
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Love Forgives All but Lust: Played with. Emily's sociopathy means that she actually isn't that bothered by anything Sean does, but she is absolutely infuriated by him "moving on" with Stephanie so fast. In the film, this is why she comes back to fuck with them.
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Two-Timing with the Bestie
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Two-Timing with the Bestie: Sean ends up sleeping with Emily's "best friend", Stephanie. Emily was only ever a False Friend to Stephanie, though, and they did genuinely believe she was dead. Emily is still not pleased when she finds out.
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Spanner in the Works
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Spanner in the Works: If not for Stephanie digging around, the villain's plan would've worked perfectly.
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Dick Dastardly Stops to Cheat
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Dick Dastardly Stops to Cheat: Emily's plan was actually damn near perfect and would have gone off without a hitch if she hadn't decided to mess with Stephanie's head by letting her know that she was still alive.
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Bavarian Fire Drill
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Bavarian Fire Drill: According to Emily, the only way to deal with her boss is to act like she's the one in charge, and go right at him. Stephanie later takes this advice to heart.
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Even Evil Has Loved Ones
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Even Evil Has Loved Ones: For all her sinister deeds, it's clear Emily loves her son, even if she is a pretty lousy parent. Additionally, her love for Faith is shown through how she apologized to her before she drowned her, after which she briefly cradled her corpse in her arms.
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Intimate Artistry
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Intimate Artistry: Diana, a lesbian who Emily's implied to have been in a relationship with, painted her nude multiple times. She says Emily served as her muse, and has only painted knives since then.
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The Unfair Sex
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The Unfair Sex: Subverted. Emily planned to frame Sean for the life insurance scam by painting him as an abusive husband who forced her into it. It almost worked until her Engineered Public Confession.
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Jerkass Has a Point
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Even at the beginning, he's right that Stephanie should be getting paid for how much she's looking after Nicky, especially with how well Sean and Emily are and Stephanie's precarious financial position. He's just not the nicest when he points it out.
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The Reveal
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The Reveal: Emily's real name is Hope McLanden, and she killed her father alongside her twin sister Faith, who she eventually killed as well.
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Meaningful Name
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Meaningful Name: Stephanie Smothers is an extremely attentive mother. Fashion designer Dennis Nylon.
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Teacher/Student Romance
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Teacher/Student Romance: Implied between Beth and Sean. He's a professor and she's his TA. Emily says they all had a threesome together, but Sean denies it.
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Adaptational Intelligence
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Adaptational Intelligence: Stephanie is significantly smarter in the movie than the novel, which may be partly why their endings are radically different.
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Gaslighting
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Gaslighting: Subverted. It appears Sean might be doing this when he insists Stephanie couldn't have possibly gotten a phone call from the allegedly dead Emily, but it eventually becomes clear that he truly believes it, and has no clue that Emily is alive. He's the one that identified "her" corpse, after all. Thinking Stephanie is just breaking down under the strain of losing her best friend, and offering to help her find a therapist, is a perfectly reasonable reaction.
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Accidental Adultery
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Accidental Adultery: Sean dates Stephanie, which pisses Emily off. However, as Sean points out to her, he thought Emily was dead. She doesn't care (although he did move on rather quickly).
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Brother–Sister Incest
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Brother–Sister Incest: Stephanie reveals she has a half-brother that she never knew about until their father died and he turned up at the funeral when they were both young adults. The two sat up and talked all night... and then just slipped into a Held Gaze that wasn't very sibling-like. She then admits to having kissed him, but Emily correctly guesses that they had sex. Possibly more than once — the two had a relationship that was heated enough that Stephanie's husband figures out that the two are not just siblings. When he asks her, point-blank, who their son's father is, Stephanie's reaction implies she's not sure herself. We never find out for certain.
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Phrase Catcher
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Phrase Catcher: People like to tell Stephanie what a saint she is a lot. Even she gets sick of hearing it eventually.
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Consummate Liar
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Consummate Liar: Emily lies constantly, both out of necessity and about little things that don't even matter. According to her mother, she's literally a pathological liar.
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The Alcoholic
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The Alcoholic: Emily, as evidenced by the several scenes in which she makes martinis.
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Hey, Wait!
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Hey, Wait!: The caretaker of Emily's mom blocks Stephanie's path as she's trying to leave while menacingly wielding a shotgun... only to say he wants to order a navy blue blazer in an extra large.
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Lady in a Power Suit
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Lady in a Power Suit: In contrast to Stephanie's bright, sweet cardigan-and-sweaters wardrobe, Emily wears striking suits that help highlight her as cool, confident, and wealthy.
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Stepford Smiler
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Stepford Smiler: At first, Stephanie is a Perpetual Smiler (even while saying negative things), chipper and over-enthusiastic to the point where other parents are mocking her. Her discussions with Emily show she's a bit broken on the inside (which seems to have started as a way to cope with having her husband and half-brother dying in the same accident), and by the time Emily vanishes, Stephanie has stopped being happy all the time.
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Did Not Get the Girl
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Did Not Get the Girl: Sean moves to Berkeley, and Stephanie winds up dating someone in New York.
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Three-Way Sex
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Threeway Sex: Emily claims she and Sean engaged had this with his T.A. Beth, although he denies it later.
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Destructive Romance
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Destructive Romance: For all that Emily and Sean are Sickeningly Sweethearts, Emily is also very manipulative and takes full advantage of the fact that she has him wrapped around her finger, much to Sean's detriment.
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Always Identical Twins
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Always Identical Twins: Emily is revealed to have had a twin, Faith, who looked exactly like her. This let her do a Twin Switch to fake her death.
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Sir Swears-a-Lot
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Sir Swears-a-Lot: Emily inserts at least one curse word in most every thing she says, usually either "fuck" or "shit". Her son Nicky seems to be taking after her.
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Femme Fatale
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Femme Fatale: Emily, who knows how to use her good looks to make her life better while harming others.
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Theme Twin Naming
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Theme Twin Naming: Doubling up with Religious and Mythological Theme Naming — the names Faith, Hope, and Charity are considered the three theological virtues in Christianity. No doubt this was due to their parents' strict beliefs.
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You Have Outlived Your Usefulness
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You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Emily's whole relationship with Diana was to use the latter as a way to pay for college, which Diana feels deep contempt towards her for.
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Patricide
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Patricide: Emily killed her abusive father along with her sister by burning down their house with him inside.
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Betty and Veronica
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Betty and Veronica: Sean pivots between his alluringly sexy and mysterious wife Emily and the wholesome and sweet Stephanie.
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Interclass Friendship
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Interclass Friendship: Played With. Emily is substantially richer than Stephanie, has a high-powered job, and a Big Fancy House, but Emily and Sean are also deeply in debt.
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Big Bad
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Big Bad: Emily is this in both the film and the novel it's based on.
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Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe
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Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: It's implied that Stephanie's half-brother could be the biological father of her child. In a flashback, we see her husband was suspicious and even accused Stephanie of this, though she denied it.
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Unwitting Instigator of Doom
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Unwitting Instigator of Doom: That four million dollar life insurance policy Emily had on her? Turns out, she and Sean decided to get it (and one for him, too) because of something Stephanie said — specifically, that she thanks God for her husband's life insurance, since otherwise she wouldn't be able to take care of Miles after her husband died. This led to Emily deciding to get life insurance for herself and Sean, so there'd be money to take care of Nicky if something were to happen. Then, due to unrelated circumstances, Emily wound up killing her twin sister... and that got her to thinking...
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Skinny Dipping
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Skinny Dipping: Faith decides to do it in Squaw Lake. Emily/Hope eventually follows suit... and drowns her there.
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Character Tics
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Character Tics: Stephanie tends to awkwardly prop one hand on her hip when trying to appear confident, and tends to have a vocal fry in her voice whenever she becomes nervous or uncomfortable.
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Toplessness from the Back
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Toplessness from the Back: Faith is shown naked this way after undressing to swim naked, then Emily too upon joining her.
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Public Secret Message
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Public Secret Message: Stephanie does this twice, both times using her vlog. The first time, she films a vlog about how she feels Emily "isn't truly gone," and how she feels close to her, "almost like a twin." She then comments that she's "gotta have faith." In other words — "Emily, I know you're alive, I know you're watching this, I know you have a triplet named Faith, and I am on to you." Emily is not pleased. The second, she makes a vlog about gravestone tributes, and how it doesn't have to be flowers — anything the person loved will do. So, she's going to go to Emily's grave the next morning and make her favorite drink. Sure enough, Emily shows up at her own grave, and there's Stephanie with the martinis, waiting for her.
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Made of Iron
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Made of Iron: Emily is surprisingly tough. Even after being hit by a speeding car, sent flying through the air and crashing back into the ground, presumably breaking both legs... she still has enough strength to punch Darren in the balls and try to crawl away from the police.
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Good Parents
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Good Parents: Stephanie is a loving and devoted mother to Miles, and seems to adore every aspect of being a parent. When Emily "dies," she takes on a motherly role towards Nicky, too — much to Emily's displeasure.
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LightFeminineDarkFeminine
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Light Feminine Dark Feminine: Sweet, maternal, earnest Stephanie is the light, while seductive, manipulative, elegant Emily is the dark. Unusually for the trope, Stephanie's a brunette, and Emily's a blonde.
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Mood Whiplash
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Mood Whiplash: We have a comedic scene of Stephanie celebrating as she dances around while moving her stuff into Emily's house... only for her to see all the things she threw out of the closet put right back where it was.
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Sibling Murder
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Sibling Murder: Emily drowns her sister in Squaw Lake after the latter tries to blackmail her.
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Time-Shifted Actor
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Timeshifted Actor: Emily/Hope and Faith are played by a younger set of twins in the flashbacks.
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The Friend Nobody Likes
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The Friend Nobody Likes: Or rather, the mom nobody likes. Not many parents, especially Darren and Sally, like Stephanie for her overbearing nature towards the school or her supposedly annoying personality.
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Significant Wardrobe Shift
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Significant Wardrobe Shift: Stephanie starts the movie dressing very conservatively and rather childishly. Under Emily's influence she starts to show more skin, and as she wises up to what's going on, she begins to incorporate darker colours into her outfits too. Emily spends most of the film in elegant, sexy suits, and wears almost exclusively black. When screwing with Sean at the end, she dresses up in a bright blue dress that wouldn't look out of place on a 1950s Housewife.
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Catchphrase
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Catchphrase: Stephanie begins all her vlogs with, "Hi, moms!"
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Ms. Fanservice
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Ms. Fanservice: Stephanie tries on a slinky black dress of Emily's that she gets stuck in due to a faulty zipper. We're then treated to the sight of Anna Kendrick's hiked-up breasts for the entire time she's being interviewed by the investigator. Then later she cuts the dress off with scissors, presumably so we got to see Anna Kendrick running around in her bra. Emily strips down to skinny dip with her sister Faith in Squaw Lake, though the camera pans away before she takes off her underwear. We still briefly see Faith's naked backside while she runs through the forest, though. Emily comforting Stephanie and whispering to her in a soft, husky voice before kissing her on the lips (which Stephanie seems to reciprocate.)
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Abusive Parents
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Abusive Parents: The triplets' parents. Their mother was strict and emotionally abusive, and their father beat them. Unsurprisingly, this led to one sister developing a drug problem and the other becoming a manipulative pathological liar.
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Everyone Has Standards
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Everyone Has Standards: Darren doesn't like Stephanie much, but after Emily "dies," he goes out of his way to be nice to Stephanie at the funeral, and clearly feels genuinely sorry that Stephanie lost her friend. And in the end, he saves Stephanie's life — the two of them may not be close, but he's not about to let Emily kill her. Even at the beginning, he's right that Stephanie should be getting paid for how much she's looking after Nicky, especially with how well Sean and Emily are and Stephanie's precarious financial position. He's just not the nicest when he points it out.
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My Beloved Smother
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My Beloved Smother: Subverted with Stephanie, who has the tendencies (and a name reminiscent of) a smothering mother, but is more overbearing towards Emily (and later, Sean) than her actual child.
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Evil Is Bigger
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Evil Is Bigger: This trope comes naturally when you cast the 5’2” and petite Anna Kendrick as your hero and the 5’10” Blake Lively as the antagonist. The poster above even highlights this.
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"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue
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"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue: Stephanie's mommy vlog has exploded in popularity, and she also has a detective business on the side. She eventually gets an offer for a TV show. Sean starts writing again and raises his son, and both are doing well. Emily's in prison and will be for twenty years, but she seems to be adjusting just fine.
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The Film of the Book
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The Film of the Book: This film is based on Darcey Bell's 2017 novel of the same name.
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Ambiguously Bi
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Ambiguously Bi: While she's definitely into men, it's heavily implied that Stephanie is also into Emily, at least a little. Their meeting is framed as a Love at First Sight situation, and she becomes very devoted to Emily very quickly. She also doesn't seem to mind when Emily kisses her.
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Incest Subtext
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Incest Subtext: A very strange example where there is incestuous subtext to actual, textual incest. Stephanie's "deep, dark secret" is that she had sex with her half-brother after she met him for the first time at her father's funeral (and may or may not have had an ongoing sexual relationship with him). Said brother is said to be the spitting image of her father when he was younger, and the only reason they got close in the first place was because Stephanie was vulnerable after losing "the only person that understood [her]" and felt like her half-brother "[saw] her" in the same way her father did.
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Alliterative Name
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Alliterative Name: Stephanie Smothers and Nicky Nelson.
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Siblings in Crime
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Siblings in Crime: Hope and Faith burned down their family home together, murdering their abusive father.
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Strong Family Resemblance
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Strong Family Resemblance: Stephanie relates that her half-brother looked exactly like their dad when he was young. This makes it even weirder when they have sex.
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Fan Disservice
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Fan Disservice: The above-mentioned skinny-dipping scene would be more appealing if it weren't also the same scene where Emily drowns her sister onscreen.
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Shout-Out
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Shout-Out: Stephanie rushes into Sean's office, saying "Are you trying to Diabolique me!?", referencing the French 1955 movie Les Diaboliques. It is an apt reference, since the events Stephanie is going through at the time mirror parts of that movie well. Since the characters of Stephanie and Emily are also similar to Christina and Nicole in Les Diaboliques, this may even be an Inspiration Nod.
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Adaptational Karma
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Adaptational Karma: Emily frames Sean and Stephanie for everything in the novel and absconds to Europe. In the film, she gets caught and goes to prison.
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One-Track-Minded Artist
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One-Track-Minded Artist: Emily was The Muse to Diana for a while; Diana mentions she could only make art of Emily while they were together. After their breakup, she can only paint knives.
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Cassandra Truth
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Cassandra Truth: Nicky tries to tell the adults that he saw his mother, but Sean dismisses it as Nicky trying to deal with his mother's "death". Stephanie at first thinks the same, but once Nicky gives her note he said his mother had given to him with the words "Brotherfucker", she begins to believe he might have a point. That was something she only told to Emily, and tells Sean that there's a possibility that Emily might not be dead. Sean tells her that she's crazy, as he saw her corpse, telling her to take a Xanax. Eventually, Emily shows up to a restaurant, confronting him about sleeping with Stephanie right after her funeral and manipulates him into saying he never loved Stephanie.
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GoshDangItToHeck
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Gosh Dang It to Heck!: Stephanie does this at first, even excusing her language for saying "crap."
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Housewife
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Emily spends most of the film in elegant, sexy suits, and wears almost exclusively black. When screwing with Sean at the end, she dresses up in a bright blue dress that wouldn't look out of place on a 1950s Housewife.
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I Have Many Names
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I Have Many Names: "Emily" was born Hope Claudia McLanden, and went by Claudia when she was Diana's girlfriend.
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ApologizesALot
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Apologizes a Lot: Stephanie can't help but apologize for every other thing she does, a habit Emily becomes determined to break her of.
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Caught on Tape
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Caught on Tape: Double Subverted. Stephanie and Sean plan to fake an argument and get a taped confession out of Emily, but she foresees this and cuts the mic. However, Stephanie was also livestreaming their entire violent confrontation on a nanny cam in her blouse.
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Amateur Sleuth
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Amateur Sleuth: Stephanie quickly manages to develop a tendency for this, as she proves herself to be very astute when she starts digging into Emily's past. She is even derisively called "Nancy Drew". After Emily is brought to justice, along with the massive success of her vlog, Stephaine becomes a part time crime solver, having resolved some 30 mysteries in the six months after Emily's arrest.
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Villainous Parental Instinct
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Villainous Parental Instinct: As bad as Emily is, she seems to care genuinely for her son Nicky. She backstabs Sean to try and get back to him, and she kills her twin sister because she threatened Nicky.
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Feet-First Introduction
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Feet-First Introduction: Emily makes a deliberately emphatic first entrance, emerging from a Porsche in killer heels. There's a particular emphasis on her feet because her face is initially screened by an umbrella. The movie trailer exploits the hell out of this moment, which comes about as close to a Leg Focus scene as is possible when the character is wearing a pantsuit. The trope is played with a little, though, in that it takes place in a rainstorm and the character is a mother picking her kid up from school; the audience is reminded that this is (for now) a comedy set in suburbia, albeit with some Fanservice.
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O.O.C. Is Serious Business
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O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Emily never apologizes for anything, and thinks Stephanie shouldn't either. So when she apologizes to Faith just before killing her, we know she is not in a good place mentally.
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Innocent Swearing
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Innocent Swearing: Nicky does this more often than not.
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Exact Words
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Exact Words: Emily's heart on her wrist tattoo is a "charity mark". As in an homage for her deceased triplet Charity, which her sister Faith also has.
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Groin Attack
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Groin Attack: Emily retains strength enough to hit Darren in the groin after he'd struck her with his car.
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Big Damn Heroes
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Big Damn Heroes: Darren arrives in the nick of time to save Stephanie from being shot by Emily, by running Emily over with his car, with the police right behind him.
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Twin Switch
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Twin Switch: Emily did this by murdering her twin Faith and making it look like her to fake her death.
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Faking the Dead
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Faking the Dead: Emily faked her own death, with her sister acting as a handy stand-in.
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Mile-High Club
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Mile-High Club: As Sean tells it, Nicky was conceived in an airplane bathroom.
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Running Gag
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Running Gag: People assuming Stephanie is Emily and Sean's nanny. Nicky's constant swearing. "Brotherfucker."
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Brick Joke
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Brick Joke: When comparing his relationships with Emily and Stephanie, Sean says that he could never rest easy with Emily, but with Stephanie, he "sleeps like a log." Later, when she has to sneak out in the night, Stephanie rolls over and finds Sean is indeed out cold, snoring loudly. She lampshades it, muttering to herself, "Yep. Sleeping like a log..."
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Innocently Insensitive
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Innocently Insensitive: Miles tries to comfort Nicky at Emily's funeral by telling him that it's okay because his mom is in Heaven now. It's a nice sentiment, and Miles only means well, but, being a little kid, he doesn't get why that doesn't make Nicky feel any better — in fact, Miles gets punched for his trouble.
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Pet the Dog
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She also genuinely thanks Stephanie for picking Nicky up, and makes a point of telling her that she's a good person and a good friend. Since Emily hadn't yet killed Faith, and thus hadn't yet come up with the insurance fraud scheme, it could be that Emily was genuinely grateful. If you believe the above Pet the Dog moment was sincere, her telling Stephanie she's a good person also carries a lot more weight.
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