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Lee surrounds himself with a network of well-meaning people who take care of each other, interspersed with assorted ne’er-do-wells.

Go to your local grocery store or farmer’s market and pick up three to four assorted cheeses, one or two meats, and two to three cracker varieties.

Minor roles — assorted friends, relatives and workers — tend to be more lifelike for not having to carry the weight of the melodrama and light up the proceedings here and there.

Between this and the three corporate players we have yet to meet, “Alien: Earth” can go in assorted directions from here, which is an exciting thought.

President Trump — the devil himself, to those roiling inside the hall — was derided as a “punk,” “the orange oligarch,” a small-fisted bully, the “thing that sits in the White House” and assorted unprintable epithets.