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The miracle of the performance is that the quips seem double-edged, at once a glorious shield and a grim barrier to contact with other human beings.
The Guardian of London commented in its editorial Monday that if John Jr.'s death "helps slow down the US trend toward a new kind of dynastic democracy, then some good will have come from this grim news."
Based on a grim novel by the Baron of Bleak, Russell Banks, and set in a frigid town in northern New Hampshire, Affliction tells the story of Wade Whitehouse (Nick Nolte), a part-time police officer and full-time flunky, who's constitutionally unequipped to survive a succession of personal and professional crises.
Frank Black (well played by Lance Henriksen), the grim ex-FBI agent who can enter the minds of murderers, learns more about the past of the mysterious, influential Millennium Group--and J. Edgar Hoover's role.
The curls are still there, thank God--they won't be sheared till later in the season--but everything else on the show now seems like a grim and ugly parody of itself.