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McCullers' script, though not burdened with many killer lines, is likable, workmanlike, with real narrative developments nicely worked into the screenplay.
Neither could it be a sense of surprise owing to unexpected narrative developments: the episodes' plots are uncommonly predictable, and the familiarity bred through re-viewing episodes only seems to deepen the pleasure.
Hannah's struggle to pay the rent, Hannah's attempts at office work, Marnie's near-hookup with Booth Jonathan, Jessa's abortion: these were fleeting, consequence-less narrative developments that were an ends to a means of character development.
But Sachs keeps it rigorously at the level of embarrassing real life, and the characterisation and narrative developments are not forced on us; we are kept a step away, with scenes that do not appear at first to have obvious narrative relevance, like Tony's drama improv class.
Houston Chronicle Bobby Hankinson stated that it was "surprisingly good", and that "Mash Off" was a "solid hour of television that was bursting with fantastic musical numbers and some really gratifying narrative developments".
It is not a perfect series; episodes stall here and there, or swerve into unnecessary flights of fantasy or absurd narrative developments, but then a moment of quietly huge revelation blows the story onto a whole other plane.
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Perhaps some more narrative development would be in order (Johnson).
Frances Ha has no narrative development in the customary sense.
Each enigmatic narrative development is a twist of the psychedelic kaleidoscope.
This removes the sting of the endless descriptions and our expectations of narrative development.
Perhaps for reasons of staging or narrative development, Shakespeare's play focuses instead on hand-to-hand fighting.
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