The show even manages a crowd scene.
In a brilliantly managed scene, a visiting American priest, Father Flood, takes tea with Eilis, her mother and her sister, and we see that Eilis's future has been decided.
Her humorless, autocratic, tyrannical management of Henry's home can be traced, in part, to her childhood struggle to manage a chaotic domestic scene poisoned by mental illness.
Here, in as few words as I can manage, is a scene-setter: There will be no global, legally binding deal from Cancún – that's been clear since as early as February.
As if to underline what an enjoyable episode this was, they even managed to have a scene set in Dorne that didn't make me want to throw things at my television – for which I salute Olenna Tyrell (the ever-magnificent Diana Rigg) who surely spoke for the entire audience when she told the Sand Snakes to shut up while she did business with their mother.
In that scene he manages a perfect blend of witty movement and wordless scenario, helped greatly by Michela Meazza's vamp, a funny yet sad Tallulah Bankhead look-alike, as lost as Edward in the shiny-surfaced, claustrophobic perfection of 1950s America.
Each time the camera soars over the men, you sense the civilizing, rational consciousness behind the scenes, carefully managing a natural world that as it downs one traveler after another, should be terrifying.
It's undeniably impressive that Sheri Holman manages to make a scene like this completely credible.
We never quite managed this scene but we came close to a few others.
Mr. Moi has responded by firing dissenters and working aggressively behind the scenes to stage-manage a Kenyatta victory.
