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“She has both the humor and the gravitas you need to be Ruth. The show has ‘Fargo’-like qualities, and at the same time, it has real depth, real emotion, real feelings.”

Finally, for the sake of keeping our spirits up and landing punches against our political foes, let’s remember the power of humor and ridicule.

Lenz described how she cast him in an episode of “One Tree Hill” that she was directing, giving him the role of Josh Avery, a sleazy movie star that Teal readily embodied because of his “self-effacing sense of humor and willingness to dive fully into any character.”

It might show the world through a warped lens and put her through the wringer at every turn — but it probably wouldn’t have the humor and eventual hopefulness of Oscar winner Adam Elliot’s “Memoir of a Snail.”

There is humor in the film, but there’s also quite a bit of suffering life’s grotesqueries along the way as protagonist Grace sees everyone she cares about stripped away from her on her way to becoming a snail-obsessed hoarder.