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A takeover of Scripps would be culturally jarring for the local newsrooms at its stations.

If you happen to binge the seasons leading up to “Stranger Things” Season 5, this reversion may be jarring.

That history is what made this Oval Office meeting — cordial, almost warm — so jarring.

But while Walker-Silverman couldn’t have imagined his movie’s jarring real-world parallels, “Rebuilding” is as much a character study as it is a warning about our increasingly fragile planet and the beloved places we call home.

It’s less jarring than parentheses but a bigger interruption than commas.