I'd been trying to read things in submission order, but I knew that once this released I'd want to drop everything else and check this. I was not disappointed. I also did not expect a disastrous trip to visit one's girlfriend in Boston wherein she worked most of the time and very little romantic or physical interaction actually occurred that so closely mirrored my own such experience. Lmfao.
And of course this is not simply an audiovisual delight (which I found very soothing, which is good because I needed soothing), but scripted and delivered brilliantly.
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What really stands out to me on a first read is the deft layering of circumstances and perspectives to enable each of them to kind of speak about and reflect off one another. Like, the strike of '94 and scorekeeping and Boston + Montreal and the AIDS crisis and of course Ys and Yamos are not set dressing, but people and phenomena and contexts that have meaningful things to reveal about one another and about things at large. I will be studying this.