stolidity

Gladstone does a lot with a character whose main quality is stolidity; I wish they’d gone a little more into her relationship with Rebecca, but this is a show with a lot on its plate.

Eric Owens’s stolidity and his aging, granitic bass-baritone convey the older Griffith’s hurt and confusion; Ethan Joseph sings sweetly and clearly as the boy Emile, even as Blanchard’s score stays punishingly high for him near the opera’s end.

The mystery is free-standing, and in any case the series has always been less about the particulars of murder than about the cranky, dour nobility of Andri, the cop played with exquisite stolidity by Olafur Darri Olafsson.

It is this, as much as the threat of Lukaku, that makes Chelsea such a threat: the air of invulnerability, of redoubtable stolidity, that Tuchel has bestowed on his team in his eight months as coach.

Wilson gives the calming impression of unflappable expertise, an almost fatherly stolidity, not unlike what Tom Hanks brings to many roles.