Still, the novel is darker than its premise suggests.
In the end, "Kiki & Herb" is a more political show than its premise suggests.
It's not terrible, by any means: just not nearly as funny or cruel as its killer premise suggests.
The World War II action comedy "All the Queen's Men" is even more of a drag than its weary premise suggests.
A slew of TV funny men (David Schneider, Matt Lucas) pepper what's essentially a big-screen sitcom, with perhaps more laughs than its creaky premise suggests.
Start with the fact that although Deepwater Horizon focuses on those who survived the huge explosion on a deep-sea oil rig in 2010, the premise suggests something more akin to a snuff film, or at least a horror movie.
The heartwarming ending writes itself, like the third-act treacle found in many holiday dramas, but Arnaud Desplechin's A Christmas Tale is much bigger, messier, and pricklier than its premise suggests.
The goofy premise suggests an alternative view of the generation gap: maybe it's Gen X-ers who are the distracted ones, too narcissistic to look closely at just who is fetching their espresso.
We challenge that premise suggesting a selective retention approach for operational data thus curtailing the size of databases and warehouses without losing content and information value.
As applied to clothing, this premise suggests that the wearer of an outfit or item of clothing is active in determining the meaning of an item along with the viewer of that item.
