![]() ![]() HBO's production is relentlessly grim, a smothering tapestry of insanity, nutballery, and emotional and physical brutality. That is, more or less, the entire plot of I Know This Much Is True, a six-hour miniseries based on Wally Lamb's 1998 novel, which in turn seems to have been adapted from the Biblical book of Job. ![]() His predilections for head-banging, knife play, throwing food at surveillance cameras and wearing metal clips in his hair to block enemy signals from Cuba have left Dominick's life in perpetual clean-up mode. This is not the first, worst, or last mess Thomas has left Dominick to mop away (though it is probably the most literal). In the first couple of minutes of I Know This Much Is True, house-painter Dominick Birdsey, summoned to a hospital by an emergency phone call, discovers his mentally disturbed twin brother Thomas has chopped his own hand off as some kind of scatter-brained protest of the 1990 U.S invasion of Iraq. ![]()
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