There is some effort to relate the series to contemporary troubles; 25 years is not all that long in the slow-bending arc of the moral universe. When Rohr brings up Roy Cohn, an early mentor to our current president, his words seem to refer to the president himself: "What Cohn knew was that if you held on to the lie … against all evidence, there was nothing anybody could do." When Jenny tells her priest, "All due respect, Father, I'm getting sick of men telling me what to do," one hesitates to tell her that a quarter-century later she might be saying the same thing.

Source: Los Angeles Times June 14, 2019 20:02 UTC