Being as well-read and well-written as you are what do you think of the episode synopsis, particularly our friend's quote that prompted my post...in a literary sense?:
I think it reinforces my point.
It's much easier for someone real--someone with depth, someone with feelings, someone with principles and integrity--to fake being not so, while a weaker, shallower, less sophisticated, more carnal, stupider, being can't come across as real, even with the acting talents of a Barrymore.