To Fingleton's great credit, he largely resists the temptation to provide backstory, relying instead upon action in the present to fill in the blanks of the past.
She could have tuned in to one of the nighttime dramas that Fanny Mann had taught her to enjoy, but without Fanny there to provide backstory the shows seemed nearly indistinguishable from the commercials that interrupted them.
Produced in 1938 as part of a mixed-media staging of actor/playwright William Gillette's 1894 comedy, it consists of three filmed interstitial segments designed to provide backstory and context for the play, which unfortunately flopped in tryouts at Connecticut's Stony Creek theatre and never opened on Broadway.
And to that end, it has linked up with Genius, the startup that annotates music lyrics and other online content, to provide backstory and commentary that pop up as you stream tracks on Spotify.
Some items can be carried by the player and read, including journal pages which provide backstory.
During gameplay, Cortana provides backstory and tactical information to the player, who assumes the role of Master Chief Petty Officer John-117.
The recorded phone call plays over time-lapse footage of Mabe's crew putting together the hospital set, which provides backstory.
Increasingly they are being used to introduce new characters or provide backstory and foreshadowing; they are part of the creative development of the series, often taking shape in the writer's rooms rather than outsourced to hired guns.
She's not, which means we can look around us and hear everything our kidnappers are saying, which provides backstory on who we are and also points to some seriously bad shit going on in the outside world: birds are dropping out of the sky, dead, for one thing.
The fourth floor neighbor provided the backstory.
In 2012, he co-directed "Peter and the Starcatcher," a play, by Rick Elice, that provided the backstory to "Peter Pan".
