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Tessa’s pre-assault persona is a little too familiar: whiskey-drinking, chain-smoking (stage direction), sexually confident, verbally vicious. It’s enjoyable but borders on cliché. The play earns its complexity later, but the first act feels like a composite of every “tough female lawyer” from The Good Fight to Damages .
In media and public discourse, the prima facie script is even more potent. When a breaking news story emerges, the first reports are almost always incomplete, yet they shape public opinion for weeks or years. The phrase "the news cycle" implies revision, but in practice, corrections receive far less attention than the original, sensational claim. The prima facie script of a political scandal, a corporate failure, or a celebrity incident becomes the default memory, even after it is debunked.
