I absolutely adore Meg on Hacks, but it's clear that was a role written to complement exactly what she can do. She's really not an actor, and that's painfully clear in her performance as Mary. It's one speed and the same extreme choice over and over. Even with some of the other Marys who have given very big performances -- I'm thinking Hannah or JCM -- it's always been clear their choices are grounded in a very specific interpretation of the role and script. With Meg, it just feels like completely unmoored maximalism.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
