But there is also a dark humour running through the 40-minute narrative.
It was here a few weeks before filming, that This is England 88 took another of Meadows' apparently typical last-minute narrative detours.
Despite Pixar's well-earnt reputation for super-lative storytelling, the studio seems to be having more and more trouble getting a 100-minute narrative to flow from start to finish.
A 70-minute narrative piece loosely based on Homer's epic, the work transports an Odysseus-like character through time to a hip-hop wonderland, where he learns about the meaning of heroism through break dancing.
Each 11-minute narrative features a few Spanish words (although hardly enough to merit the word bilingual, which is sprinkled throughout the show's press material) and Latin music, with a theme song written and performed by Los Lobos.
Directed by Andy Hines, its seven-minute narrative is the tale of a boy seen first as a baby, in the arms of Don Cheadle, then as high-school track athlete, coached by Luis Guzmán.
With Schnack, Azerrad cut a ninety-minute narrative from the Cobain interviews, which the musicians Steve Fisk and Ben Gibbard then used as a guide to writing a score.
He had released a short film entitled The Other Side, a 20-minute narrative that "revolves around the idea of assessing social, psychological and economical effects of drones on the people in tribal areas of Pakistan".
In a nine-minute narrative resembling an ultra-low-budget science fiction movie, two women are trapped for unexplained reasons on a nearly deserted beach, where anonymous men walk this way and that.
"The Confession" is a high-profile example of a particular category of Web series: those made by television and film veterans who, looking to the future, are trying to get a toehold in the world of small screens and 5-to-10-minute narrative blocks.
