Louis C.K. played with this as well with his episode, stirring a reaction and then flipping it on us in a later episode.
In this instance, the authorities say, a furious effort to protect a lucrative oil-smuggling operation has turned into an international episode stirring troubling memories of the Balkan ethnic carnage of the '90s.
But when the orchestra broke into stirring tuttis and episodes of development, Mr. Gergiev drew weighty, textured playing from his charges.
The stirring first episode earned heavy praise online: .
Every episode includes stirring music, reënactments filmed in soft focus, and portraits fading into other portraits.
But no pressure, right?!" All those plot and animation hurtles aside, Bouchard will also have to spend some serious hours crafting appropriately genius musical numbers for the film, since it'll be hard to top that Thomas Edison song from season three or the surprisingly stirring duet from that episode where Linda gets a job at a faux-Trader Joe's.
Episodes of stirring action like these alternate with more stationary passages, and there are various conversations between the pilgrims and those they encounter on the road, some pious and some providing light relief when hypocrites like Talkative and Ignorance are exposed.
The bombing in Boston occurred practically simultaneously to the discovery of the gun, stirring fears that the two episodes were connected and that an attack in New York was imminent.
"I am very sorry," Mr. Calley told the Kiwanis, stirring the ghosts of a horrific episode the nation dare not forget.
Although the episode ended on a stirring note, with silent protesters holding the school's administration accountable for a coverup, along the way it wavered uneasily, as "SVU" often does, between P.S.A. and pornography.
