It's a substantial narrative achievement: a show whose architecture is as much a star as its actors.
What Ms. Smith has done is to write the first substantial narrative that captures what daily life was really like in the inner sanctum of the White House during the Kennedy years, with Jack and Jackie appropriately cast as the lead actors in the intriguing drama.
The first couple of seasons were far more focused on Pete meeting various famous comedians in each episode instead of substantial narrative progress anyway.
There already exists a substantial narrative that views the NFL's recent rule changes designed to protect the quarterback, the League's most marketable commodity, as the emasculation of the game's defense and thus, at least to some degree, its very character.
Feuerzeig's flashy narrative antics reduce a serious and substantial story to mere snippets of information.
A subtle writer, he demands an attentive reader as he explores, through superficially familiar narratives, substantial themes.
Historical narratives have a substantial interpretive component, and involve substantial construction of the past.
Chock-full of historical references, the narrative reflects substantial research.
But Heydrich's icily demonic character necessarily dominates the book, and his pivotal roles in the key atrocities of the era, from Kristallnacht to the final solution itself, take up a substantial part of the narrative.
From Marceline shredding on a guitar, Lemonhope and his harp, Finn and Jake's perpetual turning-life-into-a-song, the music of Adventure Time is absolutely essential to the tone of the show as well as making up a substantial portion of the narrative.
