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Some critics praise it as having "the moody, disquieting undertow of a true moral thriller" (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ), while others call it "too implausible for anyone to rescue" (Kenneth Turan, the Los Angeles Times ). Slate 's David Edelstein is basically pro: "The upshot might be melodrama, but it's melodrama with heart, bones, sinews, and tear ducts."
But where the show departs from the norm is that it eschews both caricature and melodrama (though it has elements of both) for something that has the weight of, and comes across as, realism.
Feminists approve of the novel, about an aging rock star and her two abandoned children, because it coldly documents the woman's abuse and is "clear-eyed about the economic forces that shape women's lives" (Valerie Sayers, the New York Times Book Review ). Others say Allison "leans precariously toward melodrama" and tries too hard for "gut-wrenching emotion" (Phyllis Richardson, the Los Angeles Times Book Review ).
Some critics are less generous and note a heavy reliance on melodrama and film noir tropes; the Daily News ' Fintan O'Toole writes that the play is no "lost masterpiece."
Dennis Lim of the Village Voice calls it a "perfunctory, often dreary love-triangle melodrama."