Television is an entertaining and ever-evolving storytelling medium that simultaneously innovates as well as embraces certain established tropes. Death in television series, much like in real life, is inevitable. However, there’s a right and wrong way to portray these tragedies on television. A problematic trope on this topic is the concept of “fridging,” wherein a female character becomes a casualty purely to motivate male characters to act.
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