Each prominent character has been given meaty storylines to gorge on, and while some haven't panned out quite as well as others (Jimmy's sideline as a sex worker was introduced and wisely dropped, as was an ill-advised plot-strand about drug-induced rape), the web of intrigue that's been constructed so far doesn't have any major weaknesses in it at all.
In a similar fashion, The Full Monty's laid-off steelworkers translated their workplace solidarity into Thatcherite entrepreneurialism by becoming male strippers – we never get to see how that panned out, long-term.
After a 2009 take on Purcell's Dido and Aeneas (After Dido) at the Young Vic was widely panned, Mitchell suddenly struggled to find work.
"Part I", released in 2011, cost $8m and brought in less than $5m; critics panned it as "incoherent", "half-baked" and "stiff .Detractors abound, but Rand's books boast a growing following.
A record number of visitors came that year, despite the show being universally panned.
Investors, who had been led to expect something clear and bold, panned it as vague and woolly (see article).
MY COLLEAGUE is right that many of the worst effects predicted for the sequester haven't panned out yet, but I think he's underplayed one of the reasons.
Other information, such as roads, borders and the locations of coffee shops can be draped on to the view, which can be panned, rotated, tilted and zoomed with almost seamless continuity.
For decades small-scale miners like her family have panned the river at Aspai, a tumbledown settlement near one of Indonesian Borneo's most famous national parks, in search of bits of alluvial gold like hers.
He announced his choice by declaring he was "going to take my talents to South Beach" on a special programme broadcast on ESPN called "The Decision".Mr James's handling of his free agency was widely panned, both as a betrayal of his Ohio roots and as an admission that he could not be the leader of a championship team.
The latest proposal from Brussels was panned by the United States and its partners in Latin America, but the setback was shortlived; the same seven countries from Latin America turned around two weeks later to back an old proposal from Caribbean producers, mostly former colonies Europe has sought to protect.
