If you saw Coastal Elites in a Broadway theater with so-so seats — far back, but still somewhere in the center — you'd probably come away raving about the frequent sharp writing and astonishing cast you got to witness.
But then ifCoastal Elites aired on HBO and everybody complained about how loud and overplayed every dramatic beat was, and how it took what should have been a series of intimate monologues and made them cartoonish, you'd say: "Your loss.
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