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Originally posted by tmdiva
Anyone with HBO wanna tape this for me? Missing it is killing me, but not killing my husband enough for him to agree to getting premium cable. My friends and family members who watched last night uniformly said it was fantastic.
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Respectfully dissent. I watched only part of it last night, and the only actor I thought did a good job was the brown-haired young one (blanking on her name now, but she was in Fried Green Tomatoes, and I think her name is a 3-parter). However, I didn't see Emma Thompson or Meryl Streep, so can't comment. It's just that it was so obvious that it was a play and the dialogue was so "pat" that it distracted from the suspension-of-reality effect (I mean to say that you forget you're watching a Performance -- capital "P" -- and that you're just a silent witness observing other people interacting).
Decidedly (and almost embarrassingly) mediocre.
