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How the sixteen values appear in film, TV, books, music, myth, history, and art.

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Devotion · OACD
tv 2006

Friday Night Lights

Coach Taylor's devotion to his players and his marriage. Clear eyes, full hearts - devotion made into a culture.

Devotion · OACD
tv 2010

Parenthood

Devotion as the defining texture of family life. Not dramatic, not always graceful - just the relentless daily practice of showing up.

Devotion · OACD
tv 2012

Call the Midwife

Nurses and nuns delivering babies in the East End of London in the 1950s. Devotion as vocation - the women who show up at 3am not because they must but because this is what they are.

Connection · OACF
tv 1994

Friends

Twenty-five years of cultural attachment to the idea that chosen family is family. The show about connection as survival.

Connection · OACF
tv 2019

Fleabag

Connection that breaks through every wall she builds. The Priest and Fleabag's wordless acknowledgment of each other across an impossible gap.

Connection · OACF
tv 2000

Gilmore Girls

A mother and daughter who are each other's best friend. The show's entire architecture is a single connection - the warmth, the wit, the specific private language of two people who have been in each other's orbit long enough to think in the same rhythms.

Trust · OAJD
tv 2013

The Americans

Two KGB agents living a life built on deception - examining in forensic detail what trust costs and what its absence produces.

Trust · OAJD
tv 2020

Ted Lasso

Building organizational trust through radical transparency and consistent follow-through. A show about what reliability looks like at scale.

Trust · OAJD
tv 2016

This Is Us

Three generations rebuilding trust after repeated fracture. The show's argument: trust broken between a parent and a child echoes forward in time, but so does trust repaired.

Identity · OAJF
tv 2009

RuPaul's Drag Race

Identity construction as art form. A show about becoming the person you were always meant to be, in sequins.

Identity · OAJF
tv 2018

Pose

Identity claimed against social prohibition - the ballroom community building a world where they could be themselves.

Identity · OAJF
tv 2019

Fleabag

Identity revealed through a character who narrates her own self-deception and slowly, painfully, becomes honest about who she is.