- Publishers Weekly «Readers of contemporary literary fiction should enjoy
the subtle dry humor and a story that gains momentum and pitches toward a satisfying, if somewhat ambiguous happy ending.»
Not exact matches
One Mississippi is the most
subtle version of that new post-Louie comedy we've been given so far, in that Tig rarely goes for deliberate jokes, and instead lets her
dry sense of
humor act as a kind of shield against the pervasive sense of melancholy that permeates almost every scene of this show; it's a fascinating choice.
The
humor in Phantom Thread is so
subtle and
dry that I'm sure more than half the audience is going to miss it completely.
But the
humor is so
dry, so
subtle, that I wouldn't be surprised if more than half the audience misses it completely.