An anthology stuffed with previously unreleased material can feel like an entree made of kitchen scraps, but Arthur Russell's involvement changes matters: After all, the vast majority of his wide-ranging oeuvre has only emerged in the years since his death from AIDS in 1992, at the age of 40. It's incredible what passed for castoffs in the late 1970s. During the brief window with which they were active.
As I watched the episode unfold, my giddy delight in Dianne Wiest's performance slid into sadness at what a dreadful corner Mother Constance felt herself backed into, disgust at Monsignor Frank ( David Rasche) for placing his ambition above the needs of the convent, and further disgust at Mother Constance's choice to exploit the solution to her long-ago crisis of faith in service of committing the worst of sins.
Marla Mase knew something was wrong when she heard someone had jumped off Manhattan's George Washington Bridge on July 26, 2017 and at the same time hadn't heard from her 25-year-old daughter, Lael Summer. Lael had struggled with depression, eating disorders, and suicidal thoughts since the age of 13. Relief swept over Mase, who lives in Brooklyn, after Lael's first attempt to take death into her own hands in her Los Angeles apartment some years earlier failed.