Standouts like the it's-not-you-it's-me hit "Heart Attack ("Every time I try to be myself/It comes out wrong/Like a cry for help") expertly channel the weapons-grade neuroses and self-loathing that teenage girls will find familiar, but pop goddesses would never admit to.
Leigh Paatsch of News.com.au said, "it is Bolkovac's ferocious will to right so many wrongs (expertly channelled by Weisz) that keeps you glued to the screen".
What producer Rick Rubin has added, though, is power: A Heartbreak is quietly menacing, while the six-minute-long jam Main Street expertly channels drone rock through Fleetwood Mac.
(Tossing and turning on her downy mattresses, she ad-libs, "When are they going to invent Ambien?") As the evil Queen Aggravain, the drag veteran John (Lypsinka) Epperson expertly channels Old Hollywood divas like Gloria Swanson and Joan Crawford.
Adapted from the 18th-century Carlo Goldoni comedy by Richard Bean, it expertly channels the commedia dell'arte tradition of improvisation (or at least faux-improvisation), and the characters are always stepping outside the frame of the story to address comic or explanatory asides to the audience.
(Actress Elsie Fisher expertly channels this anxiety as she stumbles over her words and stares at the floor). Even though it'd be an Instagrammer's dream to appear socially adept enough to hang with the cool kids, real life can get in the way.
It's a well of energy that The Tragically Hip challenged, diverted, played with, and ultimately channeled so expertly over the span of their career.
Frankel was even something of a tearaway as a youngster, before his exuberance was channelled expertly by the tender touch of 10-time champion trainer Cecil.
They generated some telling imagery, but as always it was the verve of Berio's arrangements that dazzled; the sounds he conjures from a seven-piece ensemble, and the way the energy of the polylglot songs is channelled so expertly and indelibly.
That Mayall ran the gamut from something like The Young Ones to Drop Dead Fred to voicing Roald Dahl stories is testament to how, despite being a manic, guffawing fireball, he could channel his energy expertly.
