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This Curse of the Starving Class Doesn’t Have Much in Its Fridge


And a sheep is the star of the show.

I guess you could do a version of Curse of the Starving Class that manages to justify a pricey chromium-steel appliance, but though Elliott’s production advertises a “contemporary biting lens,” it lacks the overarching sense of purpose that would sync up the vision. To give that fridge the benefit of the doubt: There’s something in Shepard’s vision of corporate lawyers who entangle the Tates in loan debt and bad land deals that rhymes with the HGTV aesthetic of MLMs and other get-rich-quick schemes of our era. Calista Flockhart, as the matriarch, Ella, is playing against the mode of Ally McBeal winsomeness and aiming for frontier seriousness, spending much of the first act yelling at her children and making toast (and much of the second pretending to sleep on a table).

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