Like its forerunner, it is a generational group portrait of young, smart, sexy, well-educated Europeans at work and at play, but now it is several years later, and choices have to be made.
With "Road to Perdition" they have created a truly majestic visual tone poem, one that is so much more stylized than its forerunner that it inspires a continuing and deeply satisfying awareness of the best movies as monumental "picture shows".
Within a brief span, it covers a canvas far wider than its forerunner, shifting between the lives, dreams and memories of a city congregation united only by their place of worship.
When baked, it can be pulled into crunchy strands like its forerunner.
Despite the blacklisting of Seeger and the Weavers, a New York folk scene had persisted with roots in the Popular Front cultural radicalism of the 1930s and 1940s — although it was also to prove more eclectic than its forerunner.
Where "The Business of Strangers" raises many of the same lurking demons, it isn't as incisive or as controlled as its forerunner, which had the impeccable structure of a modern Restoration comedy.
That means it will be less like America's CEA than was its forerunner, the Treasury's Panel of Independent Experts, which was set up by the Tories but scrapped by Mr Brown.
Set in the Pacific Northwest at the end of the Ice Age, it traffics in the same sort of cosmic mumbo-jumbo as its forerunner.
Even if the imagery of that pleasure is partly a myth, it is hard to square with the repressive brutality that was its forerunner.
It needs to break out of the cult-appeal ghetto of its forerunner, but what I see, and play, in Germany suggests that it has every chance.
He brought its forerunner, Popstars, to our screens.
