It's a theme that Louis Malle had approached in the frivolous "Murmur of the Heart," from 1971; where Malle presents incest as another droll episode in the self-sufficient and self-satisfied life of a prosperous family, Bertolucci depicts it as an act of desperation in a shattered family.
Meanwhile, in one of several Pinter-inflected episodes, a droll and delicious Amanda Drew peels off her stockings and expatiates, Nigella-style, about the time she's spent squeezing a lemon.
In one snippet of the first episode, a droll hamster named Fluffy says: "If you're looking for a disco-dancing spring rabbit, then you would find me a bit boring.
The shifts in tone, between high drama, droll satire, and strange sleepwalking episodes, keep you constantly on your toes.
Come on, Jeff, compare Hillary Clinton to Kublai Khan or Marshall Ney or something.8 50 : In a brilliant stroke of audience targeting, CNN runs an anti-meth ad between episodes of its thus far droll commentary.8 48 : Oh man, it's going to be a long night.
It is amusing that the one character accused of getting ahead through strategic sex is a man – Stephen Rea's droll spy Hugh Hayden-Hoyle – while in the final episode, McTeer delivers a zinger of a line about getting the job done as a woman, which it would be cruel to spoil now.
Watching the urinal go in is one of the most amusing moments in the opening installment of "Sports Jobs With Junior Seau," a sometimes droll, sometimes interesting series that arrives Wednesday on Versus with back-to-back episodes.
Yet as one of her characters remarks during a droll scene in which four young people dub an episode of "Sex and the City" and Sean Penn's performance in "Milk" for clandestine distribution, "in this place, everything that's illegal is subversive".
In one episode, a hardy band of landscapers and a droll narrator help a woman create a surprise for her husband, who is away on a trip.
Like the droll, well-connected lovechild of Columbo and Nancy Drew, she spends each episode solving a question that couldn't be answered just by googling it.
