First of all, in case you’re wondering, it doesn’t work this way in real life fiction writing. You can’t take private citizens you know, just change their names, and portray them in recognizable form in a novel. Authors have been sued successfully for less.

But overlooking that bit of license, the translation of a fictional situation into a fiction of a fictional situation works very well here. The reader can easily imagine the television characters under their new names, and the dialogue is even better than on the screen (which is saying a lot; it’s a well-written show).

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