"The Good Place" introduced itself as very much a follow-up to "Parks and Recreation," only more surreal and high-concept.
A voice introduced itself as "Rob, your laserist," and then said, "I'm high!" — full stop, meaningful pause — "Above your heads in the control booth".
I got almost no pleasure from the soggy pies at Kesté — including one with sausage that could have come from a Jimmy Dean's freezer package — though Kesté, too, introduced itself as many discerning cuts above a run-of-the-mill slice joint.
There it introduced itself as a promising offshoot of minimalism in the line of Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker.
Glossy and upbeat, the show, which débuted after 9/11 but before the economic collapse, introduced itself as a stirring advertisement for Wall Street as a meritocracy.
You get the porthole windows of the quondam Seamen's Union building and a tiny storefront that grandly introduces itself as the National School of Dancing.
IN SEPTEMBER 2006 La Familia ("The Family") introduced itself as the latest force in organised crime in Mexico by tossing five severed heads onto a nightclub dance floor in Uruapan, a town in the western state of Michoacán.
"Westworld" In her review in the magazine, Emily Nussbaum described the series as "a come-hither drama that introduces itself as a science-fiction thriller about cyborgs who become self-aware, then reveals its true identity as what happens when an HBO drama struggles to do the same".
Self-cannibalism and the snake that eats its own tail: that's a fair description of "Westworld," a come-hither drama that introduces itself as a science-fiction thriller about cyborgs who become self-aware, then reveals its true identity as what happens when an HBO drama struggles to do the same.
