It's never quite the color of real blood, though, which is, for the sanity of the viewer, fortunate, and is also perfectly consistent with Mr. Argento's aesthetic: his brutal and often beautiful movies touch reality very lightly, if at all.
Maitlis was poker-faced as she interviewed Cookie Monster – who will feature along with Elmo in a new CBeebies show – live on the BBC2 current affairs show for a lighthearted "And finally" piece, telling viewers they were "fortunate enough to be joined by him from their BBC Westminster studio".
When Kansas City and San Francisco take the field Tuesday night, they will be fortunate to eclipse the 13-million viewer mark (compared to the 5-6 million that Sunday Night Football routinely draws for a regular season game).
Watching him, viewers will see either a very fortunate young man or a beautiful protégé dancing as fast as he can to please everyone but himself.
Not only clichéd, this image of conformity is smugly flattering to the present-day viewer: see how far we've come, how fortunate we are that we don't have to cover up our Gap-generation individuality.
This is fortunate for Mr. Rose, but not all that interesting for viewers.
When it's working, "Game of Thrones" shows the costs and consequences of the most adaptable characters' evolutions, which are sometimes quite painful, sometimes fortunate and tend to keep us all off balance, characters and viewers alike.
They see contestants who are overnight celebrities because they were fortunate enough to be an ingredient in ratings-seeking potions fed to viewers and advertisers.
I consider myself fortunate to have been invited to see "Gavagai," and I hope that other viewers beyond those near Bar Harbor this weekend will get to see it, too.
"We are fortunate, very fortunate.
