Word: inept
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...disarming young farmer Robin Oakapple, who has such low self-esteem that he cannot confess his love to Rose without the help of his long-lost foster brother, the entertaining sailor Richard Dauntless (Francis Crick '03). Angle is ideally cast as the naive, helpless Robin, who becomes even more inept at doing his daily evil deed once his true identity is revealed, although he is creative in his short-lived crime spree, managing to disinherit his unborn son and forge one of his servant's checks. Crick is extremely convincing as the overly emotional, yet big-hearted sailor Dauntless, although...
...goes on to a conventional political career. Years later Connelly starts haunting Crudup: phone calls, glimpses on the street. Is he hallucinating? Or was the bombing a pretext, letting her slip deeper into the radical underground? We never really know--or care. That's partly because of the inept production design (Montreal is visibly not New York City or Chicago), partly because of the flat direction and writing (also Gordon's). It's time to let these socio-political ghosts...
...familiar situation for a critic. You'd like to stand up for GD&B. Because that's your job, right? To defend viewers' free choice? To save misunderstood works of genius from the philistines? Except GD&B isn't a work of genius. It's just an inept sitcom that lucked into some free media...
That's the best joke in What Planet Are You From? Considering the number of variations played on it, you might argue that it's the only one. Mostly, Shandling plays an overgrown adolescent of a familiar, earthbound sort. He's befuddled and inept as he attempts to comprehend the rules of the mating game...
There has been no major outcry or charges of an inept defense team, as is so often the case in high-profile death penalty cases. "This is not one of the problem cases in Texas," says TIME Austin correspondent Sam Gwynne. "This isn't one of those terribly egregious cases where there's tons of evidence that the trial was botched." Beets's defense team claims she was convicted by a jury that wasn't told she was abused by one or more of her husbands, but no one is accusing the defense attorneys of mishandling the case. Which brings...