Most recently, the show took the standard "It's A Wonderful Life" premise and rolled it into a snowball of crazy.
Traditional Hinduism was considered a way of life, premised on the idea of sanathana dharma, the eternal law that states there is no end and no beginning.
That position is, however, more than defensible, and it follows logically from very widely shared pro-life premises.
The show's urgency relies on Trump and his Administration, not only to provide the astounding real-life premises for the jokes but to respond with regular and ridiculous wounded intensity to those jokes, reminding us all that they are watching.
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves is full of surprises, containing a real-life premise that beggars belief, a twist to rival anything in recent memory, and an ending that will have you in floods of tears.
If that makes Palin "extreme," according to the view from the trenches, fine — about time a pro-life candidate stood up and made it clear that keeping any abortions legal blows up the central right-to-life premise.
While most sitcom acting these days seems to involve appearing as cool and wry as possible, this show operated with a more-is-more philosophy -- its larger-than-life premise demanded larger-than-life performances.
"Windtalkers" short-sheets the real-life premise: imagine becoming a marine, the elite of United States soldiers, only to be baby-sat and kept from becoming part of the action.
Like "Frances Ha," a movie about despair that's tinged with silver sparkle because it's based on the real-life premise that things all come out well in the end, "While We're Young" is the story of how Baumbach has been spared Josh's fate.
Late-night TV is all about suspending the rules of everyday life; the premise is that every night, even a weeknight, can be special.
"Such behavior undermines the trust on which social life is premised.
