Word: biodrama
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Martin Guerre is the big news and the big disappointment in a London season filled with intimate epics (all of War and Peace in 4 1/2 affecting hours!), incandescent stars (a ragged but potent revival of Ibsen's John Gabriel Borkman with Paul Scofield and Vanessa Redgrave), one thrilling biodrama (Pam Gems' Stanley, on English painter Stanley Spencer) and lots of musicals about dead pop singers (Buddy, Elvis and, for Pete's sake, Jolson...
...even within rigid network confines, and that people will tune in. Twin Peaks is, in fact, the culmination of a surprisingly fruitful season for offbeat, formula-breaking shows. ABC's Elvis, though a failure in the ratings, deconstructed the rock king's life into fresh, evocative snippets of biodrama. Fox's The Simpsons put an off-kilter, animated spin on TV's portrayal of the family, while Fox's The Outsiders, at least in its early episodes, brought filmic texture and subtlety to a potentially cliched drama of small-town adolescence...
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