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Writer-director Alex Scharfman makes a worthy attempt at sketching the Leopolds as a parodic version of the real-life Sackler family, but never gets close to conjuring their cold-blooded, dark-hearted evil.

They even called themselves the “cabal,” in what seemed a parodic tribute to Strauss’ clique of wise men.

With its candy colors, canted camera angles and sound-effects balloons, the original series was witty, funny, parodic, satirical, deceptively smart and knowingly dumb and also a legitimate adventure story.

Nearly parodic in her feminine grace, she is also as hard as buffed, polished nails.

In a work obsessively precise in its construction — a love letter to sonata and arch forms that unfurls as a roll call of virtuosity — the Philharmonic and Hrusa were freely organic and sounded revelrous, with smiles accompanying the parodic passages of the fourth-movement Intermezzo interrotto.