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It ruined us, she says, overcome with emotion.
But directors Mary Robertson and Emma Schwartz spend too much time mining for subtext.
(Its no surprise the directors were first led to this investigation afternoticingthat very genre of video.)
Its not that Schneiders alleged behavior isnt gross and harmful.
Everything just gets lumped under the Dan was powerful and indispensable explanation without further probing.
All stories, dialogue, costumes, and makeup were fully approved by data pipe executives on two coasts.
A standards and practices group read and ultimately approved every script, and program executives approved all episodes.
You get the sense that the series couldve used some of those dozens of perspectives.
(Im not the same today.
The pains still there from the moment that I knew.)
you could tell by the way Bell squirms how much those events live with him still.
Hes verbalizing them publicly for the first time, and thats both liberating and extremely uncomfortable.
And we dont know which of these people, if any, were in the courtroom for Brians sentencing.
But even with unprecedented access, there still feels like a noticeable gap.
Its partly a matter of approach a resistance to real texture and complication.
One such complication: Drake Bell himself is an alleged abuser, a fact thatQuiet on Setreally downplays.
But theres much more to it than that, even if the conduct on trial dealt with texting specifically.
Jared Drake Bell is a pedophile, and that is his legacy.
Bell was abused as a child, and he later allegedly abused children.
Maybe those complexities couldve been brought out with the inclusion of a child psychologist, as inAllen v. Farrow.
Both are clearly intelligent and well-researched, but this key in of material calls for a more tailored approach.
