| However, the serious subject matter is often played for laughs rather than the absurdism it requires. |
| The detective story is superficially part of the hard-boiled tradition, but a vein of absurdism, a hint of Kafka, distorts the naturalism. |
| The early '90s series was a glorious slice of absurdism that featured sketches about people eating Muppets and delivering tacos instead of mail. |
| Dada is as extinct as the dodo, and absurdism gave Surrealism a different spin. |
| Mud, River, Stone makes light of reality without transporting us to realms of poetry, philosophy, or absurdism where this would no longer matter. |
| But in spite of some of the absurdism of this screenplay, it's really an intimate, fairly direct examination of self-awareness. |
