Her character joins the benefit planning committee &
though I want to complain about stereotypes & why not
cast an actual Latina, Elena Alves is played by Italian actress
Matilda de Angelis. I am a white woman who possibly
believes she is owed the exact pleasure center between
mild critique & life-style porn full-bore Upper East Side
resplendence where cashmere-clad preternaturally
smooths. Not unlike Elena I wandered prep school corridors
in half-dazes, scholarship girl teetering on the line beset
by visions of events, a show in which a life at least makes
an attempt to contend with some of the questions.
Note: Some words and phrases are taken from “Basic Instincts,” The New Yorker, 11/16/2020,
a review of “The Undoing,” 2020 HBO series.