weep

The first felt too cold and couldn’t hack how to modernize Morfydd Clark’s Ophelia; the second started strong but got soggy with its repetitive weeping and gnashing.

As he spoke, a camera found a woman wearing an Oasis T-shirt openly weeping — openly sobbing — and sent her image to the giant video screens flanking the stage.

As they left, colleagues wept and supported each other as they tried to make sense of what had happened.

This half-hour comedy offered so many great moments of spot-on commentary about the state of legacy journalism that I wasn’t sure if I should weep or laugh.

Among the scene’s daunting challenges: He has to deliver a weeping, Method-style reading of a restaurant menu.