A family incapable of escaping dysfunctional tendencies, terrible luck and a mild streak of violence. With secrets lurking beneath everyone's underwear, the family comes together and breaks apart equally quickly in the wake of tragedy. 
 The children realize they aren't that different from their parents and their children aren't that different from them as well. A play that's entirely set inside a house and the crux of it takes place during funeral dinner. The outrageous accusations, the violent suggestions and twisted family truths can be seen as soap-opera cliche but Tracy Letts uses these mundane tropes and slaps the humanity hard with it. 
 All we can do is sit back, watch, cringe and shed a tear or two for the losses that are seen and to those that are unseen but felt.