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And Just Like That … Exists Beyond Life and Death
Lisa Todd Wexley’s father is dead. He’s also alive. All at once. Forever.
In the Japanese practice of kintsugi, as studied by art-history scholar Lana Del Rey, the cracks in broken pottery are incorporated into the final piece. We learn that her dad, played by Billy Dee Williams, is Lawrence Todd, “a renowned playwright, poet, and founder of the Newark Free Theater.” He supports his daughter’s creative career and roasts his son-in-law for being a greedy banker, and as far as I can tell, he’s not some sort of zombie or revenant. The pacing of And Just Like That … often resembles a sort of flowy, ambling dream state already, where it’s unclear where these characters are in space or time, how their stories are relating to each other, or where the stakes are supposed to be.
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