As their titles suggest, his best films are moral inquiries.
On one level it is an earnest if not particularly profound moral inquiry into the nature of criminal behavior and, less comfortably, into the pressures of motherhood.
Like the rest of Lynch's oeuvre, the show represents an earnest moral inquiry distinguished by both weird humor and a deep vein of surrealism.
Instead of moral inquiry, there is moralizing: "Attention must be paid!"
Instead of beginning his moral inquiry with questions of how morality ought to operate, he purports to investigate primarily how we actually do make moral judgments.
Theatre remains our best, our most prodigious and elastic forum for moral inquiry.
The arrival of such a series will call to mind what legendarily came before: its moral inquiries, its occasionally bewildering points of plot.
The nation has been in an arrested state of moral inquiry, continually examining its character, seeking some clarity about the madness it once so mindlessly saluted.
The show represents an earnest moral inquiry distinguished by both weird humor and a deep vein of surrealism.
All the usual fun is here, but it's in the service of a sustained moral inquiry into the evil that manmade systems do to the people they're supposed to help.