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As the multigenerational strands connect, Diaz’s spry narrative voice remains a constant, a propulsive mix of English, Spanish and Spanglish, an urban bouillabaisse of flavor and purpose.

“Sizwe Bansi Is Dead” and “The Island” have the propulsive energy of performance art, registering their shocks to the audience through compression and raw theatricality.

Hunter’s second novel, “One Good Thing,” shares similar settings and themes, along with a propulsive narrative.

The revival, directed by Anna D. Shapiro, proceeds with propulsive giddiness.

“A big challenge we had during ‘This Is Us’ was it was not a murder mystery, but it had this one mystery that was propulsive — it took us 14 episodes to answer it.