Soon, Reding brings us even farther in, introducing a cast of local characters whose trust it must have been a feat to gain, so wobbly and troubled are their lives.
"Star Trek: Discovery," a provocative prequel, continues to shatter the glass ceiling, introducing a cast of female leaders, including First Officer Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) and Captain Philippa Georgiou (Michelle Yeoh), women whose strength and agency are integral and indisputable.
Moving between 1963 and the present day, Schwarz introduces a cast of characters in Madison and the small town of Winnesha, 30 miles away.
And he introduces a cast of Dylan disciples: circumspect keepers of secret bootleg recordings, feuding editors of Dylan zines and Web sites, literary detectives sourcing allusions in his lyrics, and a guy who owns Dylan's childhood high chair.
Sundance's jaw-droppingly funny six-part series "I AM NOT AN ANIMAL" (Wednesday at 11 p.m ., originally on BBC TWO, introduces a cast of genetically engineered talking animals trying to make their way in the world outside the lab.
Its opening pages introduce a cast of narrators (including an astronomer, a geologist, a paleontologist, and the author); leading animals (trilobites, cephalopods, sea scorpions) and plants (seaweeds, moss plants, ferns), and supporting players (protozoa, jellyfish, corals, brachiopods; worms, round, flat, and segmented).
Written by Waldemar Hansen and running through March 8 at the Hudson Guild, this is the drama that begins in suicide and mystery, introduces a cast of characters grappling with secrets and greed, injects the atmosphere with a heavy dose of Navajo mysticism and then proceeds to deliver its revelations.
Kate's and Yolo's trips provide Ms. Walker with an opportunity to introduce a cast of subsidiary characters, who like many of the people in her earlier novels turn out to be little more than fuzzy symbols of different sorts of victimization or long-winded mouthpieces for one cause or another.
It also introduced a cast of stars to be: Kevin Bacon, Mickey Rourke, Tim Daly, Steve Guttenberg, Paul Reiser, Daniel Stern, and Ellen Barkin.
The film introduces a cast of nerds as devoid of intelligence, as Boogie Nights produced porn stars lacking in eroticism.
In her most recent body of work, "hello stranger," Israeli artist Maya Bloch continues to set herself free from the tyranny of the literal world and creates this new one, in liquid silver, where she introduces a cast of characters that peer through the paint that, mask-like, encases them.
