What you see are the takes that work. So it looks as if every action, even going crazy, is carried off in a proper, rounded-off way. It looks as if real failure is unspeakable. TV has screwed up millions of people with their little rounded-off stories. Because this is not the way life is.
Life is fits and starts, mostly fits.
Life doesn't have to stop with failure. The Thanatos syndrome. Passages submitted should be no more than a few paragraphs long. You MUST include the author, title, publisher, and page location of the quoted passage. It is assumed that copyright for passages submitted resides with the owner of the work quoted.