To further demonstrate the breadth of my research methodologies, I expanded my scope beyond Dead by Daylight to analyze my favorite television show, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.

Running for 17 seasons over more than two decades, the show is a masterclass in dark comedy and social satire, uniquely driven by a core cast who also created and developed the series, and write, produce, and direct it. It follows "The Gang"—five deeply codependent, aggressively selfish degenerates running a South Philly dive bar. Over the course of the show, these agents of chaos devolve from reckless twenty-somethings into stunted forty-somethings, trapped in permanent arrested development. They learn absolutely nothing, routinely burn anyone unfortunate enough to get caught up in their orbit (sometimes literally burning them), and grow increasingly pathetic with each passing year.

I watched all 172 episodes and marked down these metrics for each:

  1. Which characters teamed up together.

  2. If the characters got what they wanted/accomplished their goal(s).

  3. Harm caused outside or inside the gang, if the law involved, and/or if there was property damage.

To translate this rich, chaotic narrative into clear insights, I synthesized my analysis into a comprehensive, thematically designed report, showcasing my commitment to highly engaging data storytelling.

Analysis of It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia

Let’s meet the gang…

DENNIS REYNOLDS

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Analysis of The Gang’s behavior over two decades of dark buffoonery.

Dennis is the gang’s de facto leader and a self-described “Golden God”. He’s an educated, borderline personality-disordered narcissist.

He is often the most sinister and the success of his goals tends to correlate when chaos and harm to others outside of the gang is high.

His most frequent collaborator is his sister Dee and they are the worst performing duo in the gang which mirrors their toxic, co-dependent dynamic that never quite works, but neither of them can fully abandon.

PERCENTAGE OF TOTAL EPISODES

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