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A very thinly veiled vehicle for christian proselytizing in a poorly-acted and contrived story. The one bright spot in the entire movie is the lead actress who seems like she might be a descent actress in a better project. She certainly knows how to cry on cue and the director and screenplay writer must have wanted her to cry at least once for every time someone mentions "The good lord" or "god" or some other religious reference is made (and it is replete with such references). The production team has apparently never heard the word subtle because they even ridiculously have the main character check-in for herself AND her milktoast boyfriend (who is staying in a separate room at a hotel) so they can heavy-handedly deliver the line of obvious exposition "and here's the key to YOUR room", lest we think these caricatures of thirty-somethings might not be virgins like 99.9999% of people their age. Not only is this not representative of the mainstream, but it also makes no sense that two people staying in different rooms wouldn't check in for themselves. Why in the world would one person check in for for both parties while he stands uselessly a few feet away? It's hard to imagine a more contrived scenario, but don't worry, the writers manage it. The entire movie is a giant cliché and a nothing more than a made-up parable about christian "virtue", and being honest, good-hearted, god-fearing, people of pure-character. Then again, that seems to be what religious people believe in so enjoy (if you can).

I've always loved his social commentary as well as his fusion of all his talents; brilliant, irreverent, avant-garde comedy with musical talent and vocal abilities. A must see.

The last 20 minutes of this episode felt more real and conveyed the messy mix of emotions of a complex relationship more genuinely than any stage, cinema, or television production I've ever seen. I've thoroughly enjoyed the naturalistic writing and acting as well as voyueristic peak into the intersecting lives and relationships of these characters, but even if I had been less enamored with this series, this episode alone would have been the pay off that made the journey worthwhile. Elizabeth Reaser gives a career defining performance in just 20 minutes with a heart-wrenching, eerily real, resonant, and astonishingly vulnerable performance. I can only imagine how difficult that must have been to undertake and I can only hope that was shot in one take because the thought of her having to go through that multiple times seems torturous to my mind. This should be her submission for an Emmy and if she doesn't win I would be shocked. Brava Ms. Reaser, BRAVA!!!