The term usually carries the connotation of idle curiosity, gullibility, simpleminded foolishness and gaping ignorance. His roommate is the simpleminded, sex-obsessed Kjell Bjarne. She is portrayed as simpleminded, not that bright-- according to Bernardi. Boris comes home one night to find Melody, a simpleminded 21-year-old, lying on his doorstep. He periodically appears with his wife, using the name "Simpleminded". He described her as a "simpleminded woman whom one loved to hate". Entertainment Weekly" described it as a "simpleminded domestic anthem" and claimed it was "genuinely terrible.