After scouring books about neurological disorders, he had what might be called a playwright's epiphany: "I thought, 'What a convenient device to get out exposition.' " The nuclear family of "Fuddy Meers" is typically American-neurotic; crazy and yet crazily devoted to one another.
We get expositions and declamations and endless walking (through admittedly breathtaking landscapes).
While past Dolores is getting exposition dumps, present Dolores is stuck shaving the Man in Black.
Perhaps Ms. Walsh, who is known to television audiences from "Grey's Anatomy" and "Private Practice," underwhelms in that opening monologue because she's eager to get past the exposition and plunge into the much richer material Mr. Belber has given her in the heart of the play.
I was looking at the first act as exposition to get me into the second act.
Rebecca Lenkiewicz's script sometimes sputters – there's too much exposition to get through – but settles into gear once the characters are established, steering between humour, pathos, wonder and foreboding as adroitly as Martin Ward's score (for keyboard and clarinet, played live).
(Math is no one's strong suit in the pilot of "Dominion").. It's a lot of exposition to get through, and that's just what writer Vaun Wilmott and director Scott Stewart, the latter of whom also worked on "Legion," do — they get through it, with way too much talking and not nearly enough bodies exploding into acid.
After a slam-bang opening "Suspended Animation," which opens today in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles, goes into something of a coma itself with the tedious exposition necessary to get the plot convolutions across.
However, the details get somewhat intricate, and I have chosen not to get into them in this exposition.
It would be a struggle for screenwriters to get anything like the amount of exposition in this script past a studio executive today, yet the clear explanations of technical, military and engineering details are one of the reasons second world war enthusiasts love this movie.
