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Elsbeth Recap: Lady Macbeth’s Accent
It doesn’t get much better than Laurie Metcalf playing an egotistical and murderous television actor who does horrible accents.
All of Regina’s hopes and dreams seem to go up in smoke — or at least, in the course of a very heated argument — when Cal breaks the news that their network is insisting on a splashier, punchier end to the season than Felicity being comatose, with her devoted holy consultant, Father Garvey, refusing to leave her bedside. She also canceled Cal’s massage appointment using the phone on his assistant’s desk (using one of her specialized accents to disguise her voice), hired an ice-cream truck as a treat for the cast and crew (I assumed we’d be in Mister Softee territory, but she splashed out for Van Leeuwen, schmancy! The purple prose and her very silly Serious TV Detective Voice wear thin quickly, so she cuts to the chase: After Garvey and Watts enjoy their long-overdue first kiss, they make up for lost time by spending the following 20 or so pages consummating their love in every room in the precinct.
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