"Jane the Virgin" is known for its surreal flights of fancy and its melodramatic moments, but behind the whimsy and fanciful elements, it is one of the realest shows on TV.
When the confabulation embodies dramatic, fanciful elements, it is the exception rather than the rule.
The conventions (and clichés) of genre fail to mesh with the story's more fanciful elements.
For another, Mr. Carey's balancing act of real and wittily fanciful elements is so ambitious that it seems headed for a higher pinnacle than it ever reaches.
There are also fanciful elements in Herodotus's story, like the Lydians' being the inventors of games like dice because they needed distractions to take their minds off the famine.
Harstad, a 26-year veteran of a county sheriff's department in Iowa, has a canny way of using his home-grown knowledge of citizen militia groups and Mississippi riverboat casinos to make us swallow the more fanciful elements of his well-imagined but well-grounded plot.
The writers try to ground the more fanciful elements of Oliver's world in ways that make them feel like they "belong in the universe of our show," Guggenheim said.
Slowly, Alto's became its own magical universe, with unique, fanciful elements making their way in, like llamas galloping down the hills, and angry elders that chase after you.
(These more fanciful plot elements dropped away in later volumes).
The view in late medieval Europe that the first diplomats were angels, or messengers from heaven to earth, is perhaps fanciful, but some elements of diplomacy predate recorded history.
