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But it’s Grant whom we want more of as the always mercurial, never trustworthy likely game-master Octavio Coleman, Esq. In contrast, Field demonstrates her dazzling versatility, while newcomer Lindley brings the bursts of lightness and vivacity that are in too short supply in this gray, stately production. It’s also hard not to notice that the weakest performance is the one delivered by Segel, whose strengths hew to his eagerness, which often veers compellingly between puppy-like to guard-dog intense - and which he has little reason to showcase here, at least thus far. The episodes for review highlight the emotional rewards that the game provides for the four players - a narrative focus undermined by the stock characterization of the core cast.

But Fredwynn insists that the game is nothing but a distraction from something bigger and more insidious. Peter is just relieved to feel something for once. Cora and Arnie, a homeless couple, face a life-threatening medical decision, while Lillian and George, a middle-class couple, discover the surprising cost of a. Simone and Janice, both lonely, are happy to have a days-long, city-rediscovering puzzle to play, especially one that takes them on a quest through parades and protests, rooftops and shareholders’ meetings. A medical drama made by the Hill Street Blues team set in St Eligius, an understaffed and overburdened Boston teaching hospital, nicknamed St Elsewhere. (Organized by Oakland-based artist Jeff Hull, the game, which evokes self-help speak and midcentury pseudoscientific imagery, seems much more like a Bay Area phenomenon than a Philadelphia one, rendering the show’s East Coast setting a counterintuitive choice.)

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The series is based on Spencer McCall’s 2013 documentary The Institute, about an “alternate reality game” that, between 20, sent more than 10,000 players who weren’t exactly sure what they were getting into on a high-concept scavenger hunt all over San Francisco. Dish/Sling TV: Says it focuses on too many simultaneous log-ins rather than who is using an account. Grant stares intently into the camera, waiting for the audience’s undivided attention, his patience as placid as the burnt orange backdrop behind him, the new drama Dispatches From Elsewhere screams: This is different.Įager to dispense with narrative protocol “which dictates that the the filmmaker spend an unnecessary amount of time to introduce you to our protagonist, his occupation, the particularities of his life and most importantly, the obstacles that stand in the way of his happiness,” Grant’s narrator offers the “gift” of “skipping this convention.” It won’t be the last time Dispatches From Elsewhere mistakes self-consciousness for cleverness.īut a team for what? That’s the central mystery of Dispatches From Elsewhere, or at least of its first four installments. From its very first moments, when a silent Richard E.

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