A new series, Cucumber, will be on Channel 4 on Thursdays at 9PM, followed by Banana – a collection of one-off stories from all sexualities and persuasions – at 10PM on E4.
A new series, Cucumber, will be on Channel 4 on Thursdays at 9 PM, followed by Banana a collection of one-off stories from all sexualities and persuasions at 10 PM on E4.
That's why easily explained superheroes (Superman is a Super Man, ditto Spider-Man) with one-off stories (stop Lex Luthor, stop Green Goblin, respectively,) work so well on the stands.
This time, it was announced, they were going to go the other way – no two-parters and no long-running storyline, but a bam-bam-bam of big, blockbusting, one-off stories.
That set-up leads into E4 companion show Banana, a series of one-off stories about Cucumber's younger characters, while 4oD's Tofu is a documentary about real-life sex stories.
The show's strength, however, is not its one-off stories but its longer arcs, a structural breakthrough of "The X-Files," which modelled the notion that episodic TV could be woven together with powerful, season-long themes, inspiring the more complex breed of modern shows, both sci-fi and regular-fi.
Are these one-off stories or is the gender divide in STEM jobs real?
Comprised of three one-off stories – each posing menacing "what-if" scenarios sprung from the interplay between technology and society – the series painted a near-future that was both darkly entertaining and disconcertingly plausible.
There was no follow up by the Post, and no attention paid by any other news organizations besides local papers in Houston, Seattle, St . Louis and Wichita which ran one-off stories over the next five years that linked the Kochs to conservative think tanks.
Because college sports chaos is rarely a one-off story, we also had the tale on Monday of Virginia Tech's firing of the basketball coach Seth Greenberg.
But the Batman creators don't intend to drop its themes in a one-off story and leave them alone.
