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Ultimately, their goal is to create a show on par with the slickness and the acclaim of their main influence, “The Willows,” from JFI Productions.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 7, 2025

"Films like these need certain elements to succeed, like intrigue, excitement and slickness of production," she adds.

From BBC • May 3, 2024

The taciturn slickness of this show provokes an uncomfortable reaction: Is there no feeling here?

From New York Times • Jun. 1, 2023

It has to have a slickness and a larger-than-life quality to it.

From Salon • Mar. 16, 2023

They also engaged the best seamstresses to make the floating graduating dresses and to cut down secondhand pants which would be pressed to a military slickness for the important event.

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou