Kate was heartbreaking in her restraint, but I was completely taken out of the scene when Boyd started reciting the last couple of paragraphs from the story, nearly word for word. He delivered it beautifully and with such commitment, and I fully understand the impulse to preserve Joyce's prose, but it felt so dense and unnatural in this context. The film version didn't handle it perfectly either, but at least the voiceover cut it down to a manageable length.
Perhaps the last scene is just impossible to adapt, considering that it consists almost entirely of internal reflection, but this approach took me out of the scene entirely, and stood in such stark contrast to the rest of the show, which had felt so real and naturalistic.