Since it premiered eight years ago, I could count on several things where "Mad Men" was concerned: The show would surprise me, it would confound me, it would make me laugh and make me think, it would frequently look amazing and it would experiment with storytelling and have top-notch aesthetic elements.
While the score is not as solid as Hairspray, every other element is top-notch from the terrific book to the smashing sets, costumes, choreography and ensemble.
"You really have to be in top-notch shape to produce these elements well," she said, adding that a well-sung song in wrens or a large song repertoire in tropical mockingbirds, another species Vehrencamp studies, can indicate the age of a bird.
All the production elements are top-notch, from the quietly off-kilter set of Catherine Martin to the vivid lighting of Mark Shelton, which creates some of the most striking moments in the show as the shadows cast by Poprishchin loom in disjointed fashion over everything Rush does.
So between this lens thing and your phone, you have all the elements of a top-notch photographic machine.
If $35,000 - $40,000 is what it takes to afford all the elements of a top-notch education, then the only outrage here is that our society won't spend that kind of money in the public schools for children of the 99 percent.
Like most top-notch craftsmen, he has a reverence for traditional elements of style and an awareness that those elements can be endlessly reapplied and recombined through changing times.
But, its critics say, the committee has elected too many former players of less than top-notch talent and should be stripped of that element of its function.
Several elements of the production don't match the top-notch performances and music.
(I should note that I'm largely speaking to the single-player and story elements of Halo; I've heard the multiplayer in Halo 5 is top-notch).
