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What Beyoncé is doing, Palmer says, is performance art — “emoting something that is meant to be an aspirational exploration of feminism, gender-nonconformity but still softness, being assertive, having her peace in chaos with ‘Lemonade.’”

“For us the only question was, ‘Will Brits be able to emote in the same way as people in the U.S. have done?’ ” she said.

Players can buy dances, known as emotes, with names based on her hit music videos.

And though the show is soapy and comically frenetic, it offers its ensemble juicy roles to emote to their hearts’ content.

But it also pre-dates many other traditions which may be why Lee and other stars seem freer to emote.