Some say you can know a great deal about a person by observing their table manners.

Here is the children’s table, imagine the larger table for adults in the next room.

Bring us to a Thanksgiving dinner in which table manners dominate the conversation – and the subtext is driven by one character’s belief that Thanksgiving is a time when families and friends gather together to pretend they like each other.

Incorporate the following: forbearance, abstention from self-praise, comfort food in space, final frontier, microbiome of seagrasses, Starling