'The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart' review: In this moving drama, mysteries abound
Bad communication is a staple of television: Omitted facts, half-truths, outright lies and genuine misunderstandings — genuine, that is, except in the sense that a writer has forced them upon the characters in order to complicate their lives — power dramas and comedies alike. My own quixotic desire for programs where people say what they ought to say when they ought to say it is, from a dramatic standpoint, of course completely wrongheaded. That doesn't stop me from shouting at the screen when characters refuse to speak up or tell the truth. Honesty, as all these shows demonstrate by
