When a show clocking in at less than an hour can find six or eight minutes to devote to a scene-by-scene retelling of "Fatal Attraction," any questions about narrative urgency can safely be put to rest.
What other filmmakers would devote an extended scene to the stashing of booty in a ventilation shaft?
The movie, photographed by Roger Deakins, is almost stately in its ominous control, drawing us into the minutiae of mayhem and revenge; what other filmmakers would devote an extended scene to the stashing of booty in a ventilation shaft?
Both Zaga and MC Melodía, the only woman in the group and one of very few in Mexico's hip-hop scene, devote a good part of their lives to the hip-hop collective, but they're more motivated by the idea of using music to help others in their community.
I enjoy any episode which devotes some scenes to picking at this question and, however contrived its genesis, pitching Ted against Don does just that.
As is so often the case in O'Brian, these early chapters are mostly devoted to scene-setting -- to getting the vessels watered and provisioned, and to deftly reminding us, one more time, just who Jack and Stephen are and where we are in the saga.
Gross compared the excitement over Shatner's alleged flatulence to that evinced by adolescents watching Girls Gone Wild, and suggested that the level of scrutiny that has been devoted to the scene is similar to that received by the scene of the assassination of John F. Kennedy in the Zapruder film.
(The trumpeter Louis Smith, who plays wonderfully here, would shortly withdraw from the scene, devoting himself to teaching).
It is in the third scene, devoted to the raising of Lazarus, that "The Other Mary" is overtaken by a divine weirdness.
"You'd go to some dingy loft or warehouse in Brooklyn or Queens," said Jordan Rothlein of Resident Advisor, a popular Web site devoted to the scene.
