Looking back, I can see that the trilogy came along when I, a twentysomething professional film nerd just starting out in the world of work, was growing increasingly restless with what was then called arthouse cinema: luscious European (mostly French) dramas, stuffed with strange, cryptic emotions that didn't make a huge amount of sense.
In the past, with "all the band drama stuff", they wouldn't have been able to make this record.
Once again, we find ourselves looking across the Atlantic for new and challenging drama, stuff that was once the preserve of the Beeb.
Judge for yourself when David Hare's half-imagined drama "Stuff Happens" (the title is based on a quote from Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld) opens at the Taper, with Gordon Davidson directing.
Mr. Jennings can now lay claim to a National career that has seen him play George W. Bush (in the David Hare drama "Stuff Happens"), the Nazi architect Albert Speer (in David Edgar's 2000 play of the same name) and, currently, England's best-loved living playwright, all at the same address.
"Boy stuff, drama stuff, and life stuff never slowed you down," Vina Duong wrote.
Just try personally not to talk about people behind their backs, and all of that drama stuff, and it will help to improve the squad.
The result has been a complex drama, stuffed with references: Alice In Wonderland and CS Lewis's Narnia books have been influences, along with The Wizard Of Oz.
It was the new Mad Men – a prestige drama stuffed full of smart actors, including Michael Sheen, Lizzy Caplan and Allison Janney, dealing with an interesting subject: the beginning of the sexual revolution in the US and how William Masters and Virginia Johnson documented that change.
Without such impressive writing, family drama even in a strange, volatile land is often just family drama — the stuff of all memoirs.
