The flashbacks throughout each episode endeavour to show us the struggles the Unsinkable Eight faced in the lives they’re stranded from. From drug dealing, to suicide, to sexual repression and assault, to carrying burdens meant for those much older, and scandalous affairs with older men- the flashbacks bolster the show’s central tenet surmised perfectly in a line from the opening scene.
“So, if we’re talking about what happened out there? Then, yeah there was trauma. But being a teenage girl in normal-ass America, that was the real living hell.”
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