However, he gets almost
no tension out of the piece, which is sad for a series that usually rocks the tension hard.
Not exact matches
In terms
of atmospheric
tension and stomach - churning acts
of sadism, it's an effective
piece, but coupled with the cheesy acting, music video style direction, and over-the-top delivery, the elements tend to cancel each other
out for more discerning viewers.
Milly's draft stood
out for the depth
of the character she had created and the dramatic
tension throughout the
piece.
There might be value in a more generic
piece focusing on this kind
of tension, which is going to be with us for some time — the slow steady responses predicted by current models, the concern that some observations
of faster and bigger changes might actually be the greenhouse gas - forced signal and not just internal variability, the patience required before new observations and better theories / models sort things
out.
Another central point
of tension in the
piece has to do with causality: In other words, «Okay, we've figured
out that couples who do X tend to stay together, so will it work to teach X to unhappy couples?»