There's a moment in The Slap, NBC's eight-episode exploration of what happens when you hit another person's child (spoiler: nothing good!), after the post-attack hysteria has finally faded. A kindly young tween walks up to his father to apologize for what just happened. He's not the victim nor the assailant. He's just the 12-year-old unlucky enough to have been put in charge while the adults were drinking and fighting and holding hands with college kids who aren't their wives.The kid is Adam (Khalid Alzouma). His dad, Hector (Peter Sarsgaard), also not directly involved in the preceding violence, absolves him immediately. Everyone moves on. If you check your phone at the wrong time, you'll miss it. But for all there is to say about the slap itself, it's that apology that sticks with me. It's one of the few times the show — or the argumentative adults that populate it —...
- 2/13/2015
- by Brian Barrett
- Vulture
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