Long passages are devoted to memorable but extraneous characters like the taxi driver who keeps a library in his cab.
The script could benefit from sharper editing to eliminate a few of the more plainly crowd-pleasing, extraneous characters.
Tightening for the big screen, Mr. Bergman focused on the couple, cutting all extraneous characters, including their parents and children.
It's a shame that the seven screenwriters couldn't have cleared out some of the extraneous characters to make room for the underused villain, a sadistic cockatoo voiced by Jemaine Clement.
As a century-old melodrama, "The Boss" retains some of the creaky conventions that modern audiences may have little patience for, including length (two and a half hours), extraneous characters, an absurdly implausible ending and a starchy ingénue.
Mr. Kring felt that Mr. Loeb and Mr. Alexander did not follow through on his request to keep plots simple and to eliminate extraneous characters, according to a person familiar with his thinking.
Extraneous characters who pop in and out, unnecessarily complicating matters, are Diamond Dog Maximilian Schelll), the brothers' double-dealing mentor in con artistry, and the Curator (Robbie Coltrane), a smuggler of Belgian antiques.
Sans all the extraneous characters, that method reads, "Yes, it's us again.
There is no lag time, no extraneous characters, and no unnecessary side stories.
Throughout this season, even while granting fan wishes, dispatching extraneous characters, and dodging back to dangling plotlines, the show really rewards viewers by the attention in pays to the minutiae of storytelling.
