West's decision to stage the "public visitation" at a chain store is, in an un-showy way, inspired -- a detail that's crushing to the exact degree that it's so drably pedestrian.
But what was once drably predictable reality (with limited refrigeration, fresh food didn't move far from the place of its birth) is now the very pinnacle of indulgent, high-end eating.
The colors are brighter, the fashion (for the men, at least) drably pedestrian, the hair all over the place and virtually every longtime character showing a certain wear.
Heroine is drably monotonous, its insights are shallow, most of the characters are caricatures and the lines that they speak border on the corny, if not on the outright ridiculous.