Jon Bernthal and Ebon Moss-Bachrach Make Dog Day Afternoon Bearable

Guirgis and director Rupert Goold have certainly leaned hard into the funny aspects of the plot—too hard. Now, this ultimately tragic story of two desperate bunglers comes off as a sitcom with almost zero dramatic tension or suspense. Let’s not even talk about the send-them-out-the-door-smiling ending (a bane of modern plays) that made my eyes roll to the back of my head.