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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Very disappointing.  Too much time spent on a typical and uninteresting journalist and not enough time on this brilliant scam artist.  I still don’t understand Anna.  Typical and pat storytelling and dialogue.  And it’s a story that should have been told linearly.

Too bad.  This could have been riveting.  [/quote]

+1.

I was not interested in the reporter or her story at all.  I found her exasperating and annoying, and the (many, many) scenes where she groaned and knelt and clutched her pregnant belly were cringe-worthy.  I wanted to forward through all of the boring scenes about the reporter and her backstory or her relationships with her husband and coworkers.

The story would have been better without her character.  [/quote]

She way overacts. Her pregnancy is ridiculous but interesting in that she is very ambivalent about having a kid at all. Her husband seems like a stuffed animal.  [b]And I agree too old for this part. [/b]
Anna (the actress) is a beautiful girl but her lips are her worst feature. She does do a great job with the upper crust matron thing of expressing emotion by mouth expression while saying nothing. Copied from the devil wears Prada and real life. [/quote]

What is with the insistence on having aged actors play too-young parts in this series?  In addition to Chlumsky, the woman who plays Rachel is 39.  There is a scene where “Rachel” says something to another character like, “What, you’re not used to hanging out with 20-somethings?”, which just emphasised the fact we were all supposed to be fooled into thinking that the mumsy looking-ever-day-of-40 actor playing Rachel was also in her 20s.  It was jarring and didn’t work.  I think this is why the Rachel actor overcompensated with the eye-widening and little-girl gestures, and probably why Anna Chlumsky did it too.  Why not just have actors playing characters who are in the ballpark of their actual ages?[/quote]

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