well-done

Fred Allen, the consummate radio comedian, called television a “medium,” to which he added that nothing about it is “well-done.”

He also noted the body horror, especially in two “monstrous” birth sequences, providing an adequate scare, and there’s a “modicum of well-done fright effects.”

In any case, it’s very much a work of television — not what I’d call prestige television, despite a modicum of well-done fright effects — just ordinary, workman-like TV, with monsters.

His three-word summary of the retaliation options — “rare, medium and well-done” — conjures imagery we’d prefer not to hear outside of a steakhouse.

I like things well-done, which no one likes to hear, but it’s the reality.