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Those longing, in this suddenly post-Lewinsky era, for more real-life melodrama to watch on television have good news: This third week of sweeps brings plenty of docudramas (one starring Lauren Bacall) and jazzed-up documentaries to slake our thirst for TV-enhanced reality.
From her diatribe in Harper's , you'd think Smiley was out to revive Stowian melodrama, with its coincidences, angelic children, and neat distinctions between good and evil.
The New Yorker 's Calvin Tomkins finds such serenity incongruous with the rest of de Kooning's career: "What's missing is the melodrama of vulgarity.
Dissenters gripe about hackneyed dialogue, stock characters, and too much melodrama.
Dennis Lim of the Village Voice calls it a "perfunctory, often dreary love-triangle melodrama."