The team killed it: Emmett proved himself to be a terrific CEO, managing the technical complexity of scaling such a large site cost-effectively as well as the business challenges of managing the community, cementing deals with both game publishers and console platforms while building a successful advertising and subscription business.
Such complexity comes through in the terrific performances from the entire cast, including Mr. Hülsmann's smooth politician Peter, and Mr. Ruland as the modest, sensible Aslaksen, a man searching to find some middle ground.
And it is terrific soup at that, the sort that in its complexity offers simple clarity, a kind of koan of flavor, wonderful to contemplate.
"And this is not about Sam Shepard, because he is a terrific actor, but I don't think the movie gets the complexity of the relationship between Gary and my father," he says.
Working the story around these texts was a terrific challenge, yet it helped bring out many of the layers of complexity in the original Chinese legend.
That's why I'm so grateful to have "Four Fish," a terrific new book by Paul Greenberg that helps explore some of those complexities.
And yet it's the psychological complexity, even more than the dry wit, that makes Sherlock such a terrific exploration of what could otherwise be well-worn material.
A song built around a swelling synth line, the whole thing is given a greater complexity by Karen O: already a compelling singer and performer, her lyrics are equally terrific.
Fortunately, a terrific new book called "Girls Like Us," by Rachel Lloyd, herself a trafficking survivor, illuminates the complexities of the sex industry.
Any of these elements could be terrific, but even in total they don't begin to give a full picture of the historical complexity and present-day vitality of Berlin as a cultural magnet.
