What you get instead are some smart lines punctuating the journey.
There's a faux-naif air about her persona that belies a scalpel-sharp wit, with plenty of smart lines.
Easy A is an admirable movie because, along with all the smart lines, it offers a strong idea, logically worked out.
There are some smart lines and moments of mirth, and perhaps in a performance that fires on every cylinder the show is a chortling delight.
It's still packed with plenty of smart lines about her rural Irish upbringing and American celebrities like "Kanye Kardashian", all of them delivered with Bea's characteristic motormouth charm.
Among the smart lines approvingly quoted in his book are the following, from Dorothy Parker, about a book by Hugh Walpole: "This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly.
It helps that Zelda has virtually all of the play's smartest lines, as when she responds to Rachel's speech about the "magic" of love with her own, more skeptical definition.
In writing, and starring in, his first play he has stuck closely to the format of the TV series: short scenes, smart lines, characters trying to make sense of their relationships.
Watkins is a likeable lead and there's a smattering of smart lines ("Going to the gym gives me PTSD") but, given the growing number of equally funny and indie-filtered comedies both on TV and online, it needs more to stand out from the crowd.
If you're after a fun, genuinely scary example of 90s slasher film tropes – slow-walking murderer, brutal killings in carnivals or parties – which may also have been the original source for the "soon" internet meme, and you're willing to make a trade-off: smart lines for a plot which tails off slightly towards the end, then you could do worse than IKWYDL.
