I don't understand why this Trump line is a thing. It's a reveal of an elite Mannhannite like Helen would say. Everyone talks politics in front of their kids — it then informs what kind of politics (right or wrong, to your mind) the kids grow up to have. Ta-da! Democracy.

Ruth Wilson is a superb actress who can do no wrong, and did her best with the material, but that scene with Oscar in that bar, ALL that exposition to reveal to the audience how she'd gotten into this horrible Joanie-less situation, well, it felt tedious. It washed over me: oh, this is why Oscar is here. To be a…