The two here with the best chance of doing that build sturdy dramas rather than preach to a captive choir.
Read a full review 14 Sturdy, righteous drama about an interracial marriage that fell foul of the law in 1950s America, with Ruth Negga and Joel Edgerton both impressive in the lead roles.
And if "The Big Short" had parlayed its PGA win with a SAG trophy, right now we'd be writing an obituary for Tom McCarthy's sturdy journalism drama.
Happily, a return to Gore Vidal's sturdy old political drama The Best Man stirs no nasty impulse.
"Defiance," Syfy: This sturdy sci-fi drama actually embraced the idea of aliens and spaceships and such, TV staples that have otherwise mostly fallen out of fashion.
Joseph Kerman's Opera as Drama is a sturdy classic.
The sci-fi-ish tropes and ideas the shows explore are not new, of course, but that's not necessarily a problem: Both shows rest on reliably sturdy concepts that allow the dramas to tell stories about alienation, identity and the difficulty of sustaining a community.
Ms. Medley has the sturdy bones of a full-length drama here, with three strong characters and a male supervisor who, though unseen, is a vivid presence.
Legal drama The Judge, with its sturdy, heavy-hitting leads Robert Downey Jr and Robert Duvall, need not detain us too long.
But he probably didn't envision the scruffy canine form adopted by Mephistopheles in "The Witch of Edmonton," a fascinating and seldom-seen Jacobean drama, which has been given a sturdy, insightful production by the resourceful Red Bull Theater company.
