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As the show ambles past the two-hour mark, its episodic story line becomes a liability.
"There is something addictive about shaping an episodic story within tightly contained restrictions," Jungermann wrote on the show's blog recently.
Narrative bits between numbers and a couple of longer scenes relate the episodic story as MoM goes global.
It is an episodic story about Timofey Pnin, an older exiled Russian professor who teaches his native language at the fictional Waindell College in upstate New York.
But Mr. Cale's empathetic gifts and Joe Calarco's brisk direction are not enough to rescue either the meek Floyd or the driven Clea from the cramping mechanics of the musical's hackneyed and episodic story line.
The loose, episodic story written by Mr. Ferreri and Sergio Bazzini opens abruptly with Mr. Piccoli's character, Glauco, standing in a noisy room that looks like some kind of factory or laboratory.
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Black Swan Green, though more restrained, was a consciously episodic, story-sequence-like novel which overdid the 1980s period detail and struggled to find an appropriate level for the voice of its 13-year-old narrator.
Indeed, with their short daily entries, reader feedback and links to the net, blogs seem purpose-built for creating episodic stories.
Oddly, the comparisons that popped into my head were Noel Coward's Cavalcade or This Happy Breed, with their episodic stories of reticent, clenched courage and pain.
Her narrative threads are loose, but one intention — at least made evident in "Pinguli, Pinguli," shown at the Baryshnikov Arts Center on Wednesday night — is to tell quick episodic stories that lean on the side of absurdity.
While maybe not producing the same type of episodic, story-driven content that Machinima is pushing, companies like Maker and Tastemade are putting a lot of effort into improving the production of the videos their creators make.
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