Carnivàle is on HBO Max if you would rather have a nice time. Content warning for discussion of ableism and parental death.
Articles discussed in this episode:
Before the ADA, There Was the Freak Show by Kim Kelly, https://www.thestrikewave.com/original-content/before-the-ada-was-the-freak-show
The role of avoidance in complicated grief (study), https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5482544/
Ernest Becker, http://ernestbecker.org/about-becker/beckers-synthesis/