note-perfect

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The strongest extended sketch stars Sykes as Shirley Chisholm — the Black female congresswoman and 1972 presidential candidate — in a note-perfect sendup of a ’70s sitcom.

From New York Times

The ghastly husband of one of the sisters is dead when the series begins, and across eight episodes we learn how he got that way, in a story whose domestic horror and slapstick antics are tied together by Claes Bang’s note-perfect performance as the so-called victim.

From New York Times

Part of the reason Yankovic’s song parodies work so well, Appel points out, is that they’re usually note-perfect re-creations of the source material, right up until Al starts singing about food or ducks or surgery.

From Los Angeles Times

But if Wells has assembled a note-perfect evocation of a highly specific chapter — the end of a millennium and possibly something else — it’s when she deliberately breaks with realism that this gently aching movie achieves an overwhelming emotional force.

From Los Angeles Times

Lydia’s performing doesn’t end when she leaves New York and returns home to Germany, where she serves as chief conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic — another role she plays with note-perfect skill, captivating her colleagues and underlings with her sly, affable wit and unyielding authority.

From Los Angeles Times