Back when Friday Night Lights was coming out, Minka Kelly's performance was a common target of disdain and condescension. I haven't watched the show since then, but I remember feeling like that criticism was overblown at the time. Either way, on the basis of this episode, if she wasn't a good actor back then, she certainly is now. There's an ease and confidence to her Dove that's one of the most instantly impressive takes I've seen on the demeanour of the kind of frighteningly competent kind of person who would be a career vigilante (non-sociopath division). Not only that, but there's a smattering of grace notes to her performance that, in this kind of show, you typically only see from seasoned pros. Which, to be fair, almost twenty years into her career, that's exactly what she is.

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