At first, Mother decides to embrace her inner canine, bonding with other moms over their most feral instincts and encouraging her son to pretend he's a dog too. These scenes could read like an undergraduate theater class assignment in the hands of a lesser actress, but Adams leans into the absurd wildness of it with gusto. Acting is ultimately unfettered make-believe, and Adams returns to that most basic and essential form of play in her work. She makes the absurd both entertaining and utterly real, employing her singular ability to approach everything from a Disney princess come to life to a doubting nun in a Pulitzer Prize-winning drama with the same level of commitment and belief. Adams has always been a performer willing to put it all on the line, but Nightbitch is her most fearless work yet.
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