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Apart from a faceless shot briefly featured in a reenactment scene in a PBS slavery docuseries, Aduba had never acted on camera before.

Creating comedy in which the principal characters are involved in crime does require some balance — worse criminals to contrast with the nicer ones, or a deserving or faceless target, or, as here, no other option.

But faceless communication turns out to be a godsend for a woman who can’t even bring herself to get out of her pajamas most days.

The lamentations of her preteen daughter, suffering from some wasting disease, bombard her from the backseat of her car, while her useless husband — another faceless voice on a cellphone — insists that she handle everything.

He is formless, almost faceless, a man whose countenance is a caricature, a man whose framework seems cartilaginous, without bones.