(non-documentary) television series; TV drama; teledrama; drama; dramatic incident; spectacle
to board (a train, plane, etc.); to get into (a car); to get on (a bus); to march into; to enter; to arrive (at, in)
cheerful; lively; lighthearted
synopsis; plot; outline; plan; scheme; program
novel; story; (work of) fiction
to seize; to capture; to arrest; to hold down; to subdue
to run away; to flee; to make off; to start to run away
event; affair; incident; case; plot; trouble
to sever; to cut off; to suppress; to eradicate; to abstain (from); to give up
blind alley; cul-de-sac; dead end street; deadlock; impasse; dead end
under (influence, control, conditions, etc. of); during (war, occupation, etc.)
secret manoeuvres (maneuvers); operating behind the scenes
(sense of) reality; realness; realism; authenticity; viability
vengeance; revenge; retaliation
historical play; period drama
theory; reason; logic; (unreasonable) argument; strained logic; excuse
especially; particularly; surely; clearly; as if; as though
to stab each other; to sacrifice oneself in order to harm someone else
police; police officer; police station; self-appointed enforcer (of a rule, standard, etc.); busybody
the number of people; many people; a large number of people
dangerous; unsettled; troubled; disturbed; insecure
battle royal; battle royale (genre)
build; physique; frame; constitution
one-on-one fighting sport (without weapons); combat sport; martial art
it is, isn't it?; I know, right?; innit?
confrontation; opposition; antagonism
close; intimate; on good terms
to expose one's faults; to have one's defects exposed; to show oneself up
tumultuous (with everyone voicing their opinions simultaneously); uproarious
great disturbance; great tumult; turmoil; wild uproar; pandemonium
to roll up; to enfold; to swallow up; to involve; to drag into
to be sacrificed; to become a victim (of); to fall victim (to); to lose one's life
natural; understandable; reasonable; no wonder
to swindle out of; to cheat out of; to defraud of; to misrepresent oneself as; to pretend to be; to assume (a name or title)
to let out; to utter; to issue; to send; to leave; to depart
no sooner than; as soon as; immediately after; at the thought of; when I think about
erectile dysfunction; effective dose; elemental diet; ending theme; end title sequence
end; close; conclusion; termination
shallow knowledge; superficial learning
shelving (a matter, plan, etc.); pigeonholing; tabling; keeping (goods) off the market (to adjust the supply-demand balance)
classic example; classic case; textbook example; representative example; typical case
ceasing to think; refusing to think critically; giving up thinking (for oneself); going blank; mental block; inability to think clearly
proof to the contrary; disproof; counter-evidence; rebuttal; refutation
being settled quickly; reaching a quick conclusion; no need to say any more; no problem