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The Remarkable Badness of <em>What/If</em>

Renée Zellweger acts rings around everyone else in this oddity of an anthology series.
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Sometimes bad television happens to good actors. There’s no other way to rationalize what’s happening in , a show in which Renée Zellweger is biting off chunks of scenery, shredding them with her dainty white teeth, and digesting them on camera while everyone else sits limply in her shadow. It’s not fair, really. There’s Zellweger—one Oscar, three Golden Globes, and three SAG Awards to her name—reaching the highest echelons of glorious diva-dom in her portrayal of Anne Montgomery, a superstar venture capitalist/amateur archer/revenge-plot architect. Then there’s the rest of the cast, drably saying their lines

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