excellent

“We set him up with a heated tent, a selection of sandwiches and nibbles and some excellent beverages, and then he attended a board meeting remotely,” McCallum says.

The production is excellent, with well-executed set pieces — the plane crash, a tug-of-war between a helicopter and a giant bus, a fight on a train, a fight on a dam.

"We could use Harry all the time, but we need to play without Harry and Jude, the guys are injured. I think we played an excellent first half."

"It was difficult to keep everything going in the second half. We did excellent, we deserved to win."

But he does an excellent job of squaring the fading man before his eyes—the soppy grandparent and proud father—with the “shadowy, mysterious, sometimes frightening, often absent” stock figure from his youth.