"He recalls being a foster child who learned to stay quiet - "If you make yourself small, maybe the family will let you stay for a while" - until the theater gave him license to be loud and himself. Then he and Loretta take the stage to deliver monologues they had once been denied: hers, a hammy, discarded SVU scene; his, a single line about moldy sausages."
"The speeches are absurd, with Short and Streep playing them for laughs, but what matters most is how the two watch each other. Short, who looks both 12 and his actual age of 75, regards Streep with boyish awe, while she reciprocates with a kind, knowing gaze. They sparkle with so much chemistry it's hard not to believe those rumors about them in real life."
Meryl Streep returns late in the season, joining Martin Short’s Oliver in a showcase episode that centers on a small Brooklyn theater detour. Oliver reveals a childhood in foster care and how theater allowed him to be loud and himself. He and Loretta perform short, discarded monologues—her hammy SVU scene and his single line about moldy sausages—played for laughs but charged by the way they watch one another. The series follows a set template of a new season, a new killing, and the Arconia trio investigating amid a rotating cast of oddball suspects, mixing uneven gags with sudden melancholy and a cozy-mystery sturdiness.
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