SCOTT And yet these stories do have some appeal, beyond the familiarity of the characters and the relentlessness of the marketing campaigns.
Fletcher attributes this to the familiarity of the characters – children who watch the show day in, day out feel they know him already.
The familiarity of these characters and their desires, all a concoction of Kevin's perspective, is, ironically, what makes the novel absorbing in its simplicity about bourgeois banality and the quest for expression.
Reviewers praised most aspects of the production, with particular emphasis on Mendes, Spacey and Ball; criticism tended to focus on the familiarity of the characters and setting.
But his fame, and the familiarity of his character, Tony Soprano, put the soldiers at ease.
Her enigmatic mien was even more surprising given the familiarity of the character; "The Good Wife" was the fictionalized look at what happened to a political wife after she's forced to Assume the Position, between podium and flag, as her erring spouse confesses his sins to the cameras.
The story related is simple, and suspiciously self-referential — it's difficult to credit that a first novel would so blithely assume so much familiarity with a cast of characters never before encountered.
The audience, on some level, could recognize that Haysbert was hired not for being Haysbert himself, but rather, for the security and familiarity of his fictional character.
The familiarity of its milieu, its characters and their hurts and grievances, recall any number of other movies.
