TV review: Mark Ruffalo’s double act carries ‘I Know This Much Is True’ on HBO - Chicago Tribune

Mark Ruffalo’s work in the limited series “I Know This Much Is True” (Sunday on HBO) continues in that tradition, but less through explosive showmanship than a more minor-key sort of skillfulness. Ruffalo, playing twins Dominick and Thomas Birdsey, is given ample raw material: The script, based on Wally Lamb’s novel, places Dominick, a relatively even-keeled fellow, in perpetual counterpoint to Thomas, whom we first meet when he cuts off his own hand in a public library. It’s an act of ritual sacrifice that Thomas believes will end the then-ongoing first Gulf War, and it’s also a way for the viewer to distinguish between two brothers, who now only have three hands between them. But when we see Dominick by Thomas’ bedside in the hospital, commonalities emerge. Dominick, acceding to Thomas’ request that doctors not attempt to reattach the severed hand, bears an attitude of irredeemable sadness that seems to share a border with Thomas’ ecstatic brokenness. Both brothers carry the weight of the world; Ruffalo, playing off himself, illuminates how they shoulder it differently even as he reveals the simple fact that the burden is indeed shared.

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