Matt Ross

On a daily basis, you're re-calibrating, if not an hourly basis, trying to do the right thing by your children...They're only in the house so long, and I'm curating their lives.

Murphy and Falchuk don't go after anything deep...they just want the reflected glow of America's collective nightmares as they peddle their own ambitious, at times affecting, but generally klutzy serialized/recurring bad dream.

The film’s saving graces are the uniformly strong performances...and its intriguing subject matter...[but it] develops third-act problems as it devolves into calculated contrivances, didacticism, and sentiment.