thematic

There’s a lot of thematic overlap in the three specials, but in this one you really take it to a more vulnerable place.

It uses a conventional documentary approach, yet it also boasts artfully thematic touches too.

Wright directed the first three episodes, setting the visual and thematic tone for the series, while Andrea Harkin took on the latter three.

“All families are concerned with what happens next,” Fellowes says of the story’s thematic undercurrent.

In “Last Rites,” the thematic metaphor for seeing is the mirror itself, suggesting that we need to look at the darkest, most terrifying parts of ourselves and not shut them out.