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Recent Examples of melodrama
Part physics lecture, part rehearsal for a future death, the 75-minute piece shifts from glowing equations and sandbox experiments to Tagore songs, Bollywood widow melodrama and intimate Bangla conversations.
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Theater Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
12 June 2026
This melodrama is ubiquitous in the sport.
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Jack Holmes,
Vanity Fair,
11 June 2026
The emotion that the melodrama required was happening.
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Lauren Michele Jackson,
New Yorker,
7 June 2026
In the first few seasons of the time-hopping melodrama This Is Us, Milo Ventimiglia’s Jack is positioned as the patriarch of the Pearson family, yet is only shown in flashbacks to the family’s early days.
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Brianna Zigler,
Entertainment Weekly,
2 June 2026
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Theater Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
12 June 2026
This melodrama is ubiquitous in the sport.
—
Jack Holmes,
Vanity Fair,
11 June 2026
The emotion that the melodrama required was happening.
—
Lauren Michele Jackson,
New Yorker,
7 June 2026
In the first few seasons of the time-hopping melodrama This Is Us, Milo Ventimiglia’s Jack is positioned as the patriarch of the Pearson family, yet is only shown in flashbacks to the family’s early days.
—
Brianna Zigler,
Entertainment Weekly,
2 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for melodrama
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The two first crossed paths on André's Adult Swim late-night talk show comedy series The Eric André Show in 2020.
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In the latest installment of the comedy franchise, written by Chris Hazzard and Mike Fontana, Nick faces his biggest challenge yet… grandkids.
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So much of Jaeychino’s ethos is informed by the improbability of beating the odds, the sentimentality that comes with that, and the ability to flex on niggas when your tears dry up.
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Season four course-corrected somewhat, but its hard embrace of a bleeding-heart sentimentality around found families and the power of food smacked of self-importance.
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As opposed to tragedy’s narrative arc of historical fate, tragicomedy unfolds in an infinite present.
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Set in Shanghai, the film is a tragicomedy about a mother and daughter grieving their loss while trying to act normal.
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While this gentler effort is unlikely to be similarly impactful, its witty humor and genuine emotionalism recall the best of Pixar, where its director worked as a story artist on such films as Wall-E and Incredibles 2.
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Arpino’s interest in popular culture, athletic technique, and unapologetic emotionalism has found a new audience in the post-Balanchine world.
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Unlike Magazine Dreams, the modest but satisfying Test avoids the lurid descent into violent psychodrama that swerved into hallucinatory Taxi Driver territory and undercut that film’s integrity.
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And Malia is also achingly lonesome for her family life, with a sister about to get married and a doting father played, in this headache-inducingly twisty psychodrama’s most refreshing meta-twist, by Romanian director Radu Jude.
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Capturing the emotionality of the moment was paramount, and an especially incredible feat, considering Pfeiffer and her scene partner had never met before shooting.
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The photographer’s early years were spent with his Ukrainian mother and grandparents on a farm in central New Jersey, which exposed him to the emotionality of nature.
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First a human scores a model’s outputs — say, how likely a character in a drama would be to react to news of a tragedy with a host of jokes or expressions of sympathy — going back with one score after another to various responses.
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The parents of the teen killed in the horse carriage crash in Central Park are remembering their son as rides resume a week after the tragedy.
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These films explore those bonds without ever resorting to bromides or mawkishness.
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Then things just unravel into a half-hour of thoroughly phony mawkishness.
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“Melodrama.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/melodrama. Accessed 2 Jul. 2026.
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