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Kings premieres tonight at 8 PM on NBC. It is a modern drama based on a retelling of the Biblical accounts of Kings Saul and David, set in a 21st century monarchical pseudo-America (at war with its northern neighbor, "Gath.") It's gotten good if mixed reviews, and seems like an intriguing premise, at any rate. I'll be checking it out - pretty much mandatory for any scholar of ancient reception studies - and curious to hear your thoughts.

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On another, more academic question - I'm looking for examples of psychologically healthy, positive mother-daughter relationships in literature (broadly defined) or other media _written by men._ I'm writing an article right now about mother-daughter relationships in Greek and Roman literature (specifically among prostitutes), and am curious if part of what's going on is a broader pattern of male writers imposing conflict and dysfunction on mother-daughter relationships because they don't have access to information about more normal mother-daughter relationships or are unnerved by their exclusion from such relationships. Any ones you can think of? I've been running through Shakespeare and the Western canon in my head and I'm pretty well stuck. Sure, there are plenty of examples like _Little Women_, but on the other side you wind up with what, _The Glass Menagerie_?