kitchen-sink drama
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This series of misadventures sounds like a gritty kitchen-sink drama, commissioned by someone who feels life is just too cheerful.
From BBC ● Jan. 21, 2024
The kitchen-sink drama “Threads” introduces us to two families connected by the son of one dating the daughter of the other — and getting her pregnant at the worst possible moment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 20, 2023
Alvarez previously featured the characters in another play, kitchen-sink drama “Dusty de los Santos.”
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 11, 2023
And the environment created by the writer and director Gerard Barrett and the cinematographer Piers McGrail looks as drab and forbidding as any ’60s British kitchen-sink drama.
From New York Times ● Feb. 11, 2016
Mike Leigh could probably make a kitchen-sink drama about it but it wouldn't be miserable enough.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 25, 2013