| 11. | But this real-life drama is hammered into flat melodrama.
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| 12. | The series is peppered with overused epigrams from Hollywood mob melodramas.
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| 13. | And any worthwhile actor isn't thinking about melodramas anyway.
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| 14. | Perhaps the immensity of the subject tempered his inclination to melodrama.
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| 15. | Also, the melodrama among the regular characters is too obvious.
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| 16. | The humans in this insufficient melodrama warrant neither sympathy nor interest.
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| 17. | Routine, rather than melodrama, animates the real West Wing.
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| 18. | This is no melodrama, however, and no soap opera.
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| 19. | For melodrama, high satire, and cheap intrigue ( Sweetheart!
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| 20. | This story could be a melodrama, tragedy or dark comedy.
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