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    Commentary: Aubrey Plaza goes off in her off-Broadway debut, ‘Danny and the Deep Blue Sea’

    In Season 2 of HBO’s “The White Lotus,” Aubrey Plaza plays Harper, an employment lawyer with a pinched, plaintive expression that seems perpetually on the verge of freezing into a sarcastic smirk. Harper’s air of annoyance isn’t unwarranted. Not only is her marriage to Ethan, a tech genius whose company hit the jackpot, increasingly sexless, but the couple has been dragged on vacation to a ...
    by Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times Nov 30, 2023 4 minutes
    Aubrey Plaza attends "Danny and the Deep Blue Sea" opening night at Lucille Lortel Theatre on Nov. 13, 2023, in New York.

    In Season 2 of HBO’s “The White Lotus,” Aubrey Plaza plays Harper, an employment lawyer with a pinched, plaintive expression that seems perpetually on the verge of freezing into a sarcastic smirk.

    Harper’s air of annoyance isn’t unwarranted. Not only is her marriage to Ethan, a tech genius whose company hit the jackpot, increasingly sexless, but the couple has been dragged on vacation to a luxurious Sicilian resort, the guests of Ethan’s college roommate, a playboy manipulator who feels entitled to plunder whatever gains his brainiac buddy has acquired.

    Plaza, whose comedy chops were honed on NBC’s “Parks and Recreation,” wrings a complete biography from her character’s uningratiating manner.

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