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| - [T]he videos are pure Rosie, in the sense that with their unforgiving lighting and absent production values Ms. O'Donnell, the comic-actress-host, is revealing the last of whatever she was holding back on daytime television. The spectacle of her both humbled and emboldened ... without bronzer to contour her face or concealer to hide her fatigue, or directors to keep her coloring within the political and professional lines. And, man, is this girl good on screen. [She] seems to be experimenting with an emo style, the morose deadpan known to YouTubers but anathema to TV and stage veterans like herself. But the Rosie-unplugged thing works. (en)
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