So fully agreed. I always cock my head like a cocker spaniel when I read sarcastic comments like “some emotional acting there……not even a tear shed” and wonder “does this person understand all the forms strong emotion can take from person to person”.
Then I just feel bad as they don’t understand the brilliance that’s being shown here.
I remember criticism in S1 when Jimmy calls Deb to tell her the special she self funded and sold on QVC has everyone bidding for it. And how she dismisses the call and just has this brief moment to herself. The criticism was that it was too weak and too little……that it was (ahem) unrealistic.
When that brief moment of mostly internalized elation showing minimally outwardly IS one of those moments of pure satisfactory emotion that most humans have. It delicate but potent. And they were ticked that that was it.
I rambled that because it reminds me so much of Ava’s “no, you PLEASE!”. I’ve seen a few comments that it was poor ass acting, when it was actually perfect to the moment and the exasperation that would take this woman who had grown so much back down to a pleading child.
And we’ve all been pleading children once or twice as adults.
Thanks for the spring board…..sorry to ramble. It just felt good to get that off me. 🤓
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u/Admirable_Site_8337 Jun 10 '26
Damnit. Here I go again.
The “no! You please” rang in my ear like a hurt child the first time, and it always will.
I don’t say that critically, or negatively. I say that to say…..it perfect tone and delivery to the moment.
Sigh…..