We’re back in conversational flashback mode for Episode 3 of The Madison (“Let Her Fall”), and this time Stacy and Preston Clyburn are discussing their oldest daughter’s impending divorce. Abby married some guy named Dallas, a “dilettante,” according to Preston, who she and her daughters are better off without. But these parents could have predicted this union’s failure, because for them the root problem is their daughter. Stacy wants to let Abby figure out her next move herself, by removing the financial safety net they probably left in place too long.
“If you had had parents that you could run to every time life got hard,” Stacy asks, “would you be the man you are today?” But Preston is more philosophical about the makeup of their oldest. “Even if we had remained poor,” he says – a flashback inside the flashback to Young Preston and Young Stacy eating ramen in
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