11.   Not long ago, the scene would have seemed implausible.

12.   Not too long ago, the scene would have seemed implausible.

13.   Perhaps as a consequence, there were discernible pockets of uncertainty in the performances, and the climactic scenes of exorcism seemed oddly slack.

14.   Seen behind a gauzy scrim and often in slow motion, the scenes seem watery and fogbound.

15.   Scenes seem self-contained and barely interconnected.

16.   Some scenes seem to have been clumsily dubbed, but in many pivotal sequences the actors are clearly speaking English.

17.   Some scenes seem very real, but are not.

18.   Such scenes seem contrived.

19.   Still, the squalid balcony scene seemed artistically part of the shabby politics being played out in the White House.

20.   That first scene seems to exist so Seaborn can explain a pager message that Potus has been in a bicycle accident.