More extraordinarily, it also manages, through the cumulative power of all these individuals' words, to do what the best and most honest fiction does: it makes you feel less alone.
So it was a tough time I managed through.
More pragmatically, I hope it manages to get through the end of this year shining, ready to take on whatever the outcome of the Paris talks.
For more than 30 years Turkey has been promised that if it manages to get through the same hoops and over the same hurdles that others do, it can join.
"It manages to recognise them through a number of traits," says Mike Hemmings, marketing director of Amscreen, one of the firms offering the tech.
The president once seemed open to the idea of universal background checks, though he later walked this back, so it's possible that he could veto the bill even if it manages to make it through the Senate.
When I saw the show a few days ago – an odd experience, in the middle of an ongoing global blasphemy debate, not least because half the audience looked as if it would have been more at home at Evita or Wicked – it somehow managed through the mockery, to make one feel quite fond of Mormons.
It was managed through the war years by Wagner's daughter-in-law Winifred Wagner, a close friend of the Nazi dictator.
By law, it is managed through a public process that, while highly imperfect and often agonizingly slow, is intended to reflect the country's changing values.
It's managed through the company's software defined networking (SDN) technology.
