In Season 2, the show reversed those proportions, emphasizing arcs above episodes, in order to chronicle the black-humor ballad of Mags, who killed a man, tried to adopt his daughter, and forged a canny bargain with a corporation that wanted to strip-mine her land.

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These songs make for a not-bad record, but it's largely the similarities to the books, their black humor and oblique sense of populism, that make The Tragic Treasury an interesting listen.

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There is certain black humor in how confident the investor mood swung just before Friday.

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Mr. Hirst's work has a streak of black humor running through it, so he must have appreciated the irony that the sale in September 2008 finished only hours before the announcement of the collapse of Lehmann Brothers.

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