characters
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By the time Boston sat down to write the pilot episode, she knew the narrative and the characters so well that it took her just two weeks to finish.
From Los Angeles Times
The split widens when a labor strike becomes an armed revolt, with Jacir gamely tracking the hardening or shifting loyalties of both her peasant and well-to-do characters.
From Los Angeles Times
Partly that’s because you don’t stand back from your characters and judge them.
From Salon
Tellingly, though, the moment has very little to do with her characters, which are yet again overwhelmed by her grandiose ideas.
From Los Angeles Times
The characters she plays in that show and in this film are financially cosseted but psychologically adrift, bumping along from one middle-aged frustration, or humiliation, to the next.
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