Its disadvantage may be the daring concept, in which a number of fictional horror story characters – Dracula, Frankenstein's monster and Dorian Gray – are living in Victorian London.
This was a very daring concept and the film was enhanced critically by cinematographer Darius Khondji, designer Jean-Paul Gaultier and composer Angelo Badalamenti.
It's a daring concept too, thought cristobalbates: "I remember watching the first episode and wondering whether a programme like that should be allowed".
The daring concept: Stuff a pro-size sensor (APS-C size, the same thing you'd find in, say, a Canon Rebel) into a camera whose body could fit in a jeans pocket.
For me, the most telling example was the October, 2013, program that combined the United States première of Mark-Anthony Turnage's "Frieze" with Beethoven's Ninth Symphony — an admirably daring concept.
The snappy Lennox collaboration, Sisters Are Doing It For Themselves, is a more explicitly feminist sequel to Respect, but by that time feminism was no longer a daring concept.
(Brantley) 'Modern Terrorism, or They Who Want to Kill Us and How We Learn to Love Them' Jon Kern's comedy about three hapless terrorists plotting to blow up the Empire State Building wins points for a daring concept, but the delivery is mostly of the conventional, sitcom kind.
"It is also unique in using simple metal brackets to display the ornate pinnacles in front of the general canopy spires as though they float by magic - a daring concept not found anywhere else".
