How is it the character or Book is so well written. He's not over the top. He's vulnerable at times without making a feast of it. He's heroic without being superman. He shows love and quiet pain, again, without making a feast of it. Man I would watch a show just about that Book dude and his adventures with his cat with strange life forms/planets and his ship. I felt genuine emotion when he saw his nephew turn around. It's the first time I've felt anything that felt like genuine emotion in the show. There are people BATHING in emotion. SHOWING emotion. But the audience doesn't feel it. You can do all the dramatics. All the crying in the world. All the soft whispers. And if it's not real. If the audience doesn't feel it or believe it, then it doesn't work. Book (sorry I forget his name), somehow, knows how to do his best with the somewhat weak lines. Book, Pike, Tig Notaro.
Review of Choose to Live
