overstuff

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.

There was also frustration in the country over what was seen as struggles to deliver on big promises - an agenda that was "overfilled, overstuffed", said Mr Wells - and his handling of files like immigration.

And yet, Markle’s show isn’t just another entry into an overstuffed genre.