At the center of it was Catherine, vividly sending up an entire genre of the show-business underbelly that no one ever referenced on polite middle-American network television.
—
Merrill Markoe,
Rolling Stone,
1 Feb. 2026
And even then, it was couched in the polite, ambiguous language.
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