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That said, the moment when Didi and Gogo throw themselves into a frantic hug—as if only by touching one another can they be sure they still exist—has breathtaking poignancy.

Calling the president’s action a “breathtaking abuse of power,” Newsom said in a statement that 300 California National Guard personnel were being deployed to Portland, Ore., a city the president has called “war-ravaged.”

Quieter and more reserved than her sisters, her singing voice is no less breathtaking.

But the Fourth Reich-scale ambition of this apparent Trumpian agenda is genuinely breathtaking, partly because it’s so completely untethered to political pragmatism.

Part of the series’ breathtaking cinematic scope includes occasional jolts of action, and this long-foreshadowed death match lives up to the best of those scenes.