overstuff

Both the meal and the conversation had been a great deal to absorb, and she was feeling quite overstuffed, in head, heart, and tummy.

The Times’ Joshua Rothkopf called it a “wildly ambitious, overstuffed city epic.”

Bouchard explains that the show’s approach to these milestone episodes have been to “go small and deep” to avoid overstuffing them with fan service.

It’s clearly a passion project, and like many passion projects, it can go overboard at times, grow overstuffed, not to say oversolemn — though solemnity, to be sure, is appropriate to the history.

And just like those cases, such an overstuffed film would not work without the right star to reduce the cinematic clutter.