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These details are both important and relevant to the figurative subtweet Bravo is sending through “Zola.”

He said the figurative “momma and daddy” are actually his fans, whose expectations he’s glad he’s fulfilled, even though they “don’t actually know each other” in real life.

So it didn’t matter what was being said about us by outside voices, because inside our literal and figurative tent, we believed.

This future she’s battling is figurative, yet her desperate self-reliance — her inability to trust others — is deeply relatable to anyone struggling to get by without a safety net.

Each episode allows us to get to know more about them beyond a few quirks or twirls of the figurative mustache.