That once would have been three episodes' worth of subplot.
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In the Chapman case, the latest subplot involves his representation.
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All of which adds a strange subplot to this game.
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A running subplot involves Stone's unappetizing case of foot eczema.
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One film this year featured a subplot about medical debt.
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That subplot is vital but just one of the juicy threads.
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There's also a subplot about rat robots that can electrocute you.
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Also, finally giving honorary girl Elijah the romantic subplot he deserves.
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ON THE MAP A basketball documentary with a Cold War subplot.
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Trump's hunger for credit has become a subplot of his presidency.
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Don't get too attached to this guy – his subplot goes nowhere.
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Thankfully, the entire rape subplot doesn't make it into the movie.
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Then there's poor Duc, who's stuck with this episode's worst subplot.
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Every single subplot in that movie is about unpacking characters' traumas.
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It wants to give each and every character their own subplot.
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The organ harvesting subplot was all a construction of Ray's imagination.
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How is the subplot of June's religion playing out for you?
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Speaking of Marnie and Ravi, their love triangle subplot is painfully underdeveloped.
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And obviously, a romantic subplot will blossom between the show's principal investigators.
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Epic battles between demons are occasionally interrupted by a stilted romantic subplot.
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First of all, there's the whole Soviet subplot in Stranger Things 3.
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It's a slight subplot that complements the Kate and Kevin of 2008.
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Why am I so invested in this Patty and Rocket Kid subplot?
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It's an unintended but welcome potential ending to the Khashoggi saga's subplot.
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It has also become a subplot in this year's race for governor.
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Maybe the writers will bring him back in a subplot next season.
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That quasi-romantic subplot lends Caging Skies much of its discomfiting sensibility.
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The subplot about Charlie and the pear reminds me of Seinfeld, too.
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His efforts make for an absorbing subplot even if they don't bear fruit.
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Yes, it's the series' mascot, but the bird practically has its own subplot.
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Perhaps it was as simple as Jorah's greyscale subplot — which went absolutely nowhere.
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The subplot with El getting jealous over Max's relationship with Mike was ridiculous.
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There's an added romantic subplot between a police officer and his teep partner.
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Viewers know Juliana is right, thanks to a subplot about the Nazi scientists.
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Alas, we have to settle here for it being one subplot of many.
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Her storyline is short, but it's the kind of subplot that speaks volumes.
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At the risk of bogging down in synopsis, this subplot is worth summarizing.
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A subplot involving tangled elephant tails that is resolved without ever being introduced.
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Moore's whereabouts have become a significant subplot in the Senate race's final days.
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And a love triangle subplot feels rushed at best and unearned at worst.
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A subplot like that can veer into melodrama, but Moriarty handles it deftly.
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Spicer's embattled narrative became its own subplot in the greater Trump reality show.
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The show's subplot of self-harm casts light upon an often misunderstood condition.
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There would be an ahistoric subplot involving Parthian interference in the consular elections.
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Whether ABC is concerned about blowback for broadcasting the abortion subplot is unclear.
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But unfortunately, she says the character wasn't ready for an explicitly romantic subplot.
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The other stuff will feel like a leftover subplot from an earlier outline.
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Have a character or subplot that doesn't have a place in the script yet?
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Riverdale actually had an entire "Fred becomes addicted to painkillers" subplot that was dropped.
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But one often-overlooked document leaked by Edward Snowden makes a revealing subplot public.
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Here's some more background and context that help explain each of these subplot developments.
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For L.G.B.T.Q. adults, Matthew's subplot offers a glimpse into the childhood we didn't have.
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And Kathryn Gallagher gives a really grounded, smart performance as Bella throughout this subplot.
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A major subplot of season 3 involves Jessica grappling with her sexual assault trauma.
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There's a subplot about how Sonic's rapping and "fire" mixtape will destroy the world.
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Another subplot in the Micro-Grams is a history of mediums for drug distribution.
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Meanwhile, after two seasons in which her main role was to fret and be erratic, Joyce finally gets a chance to take charge of her own subplot — though said subplot also kinda paints her as being as kooky and erratic as ever.
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Another features a subplot about a young friend of Penelope's daughter whose parents are deported.
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Part of a trilogy, the "Estranged" music video includes a bizarre subplot and holographic dolphins.
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That makes for an interesting subplot as the two unicorns encroach on each other's lawn.
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It's like when Friday Night Lights introduced a murder subplot: Where did that come from?
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A subplot about Sweet Pea sabotaging her father's plans is a little too easily resolved.
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The other big subplot to take note of is that Shaw's mother is in prison.
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The Kevin Messiah subplot was prominent, though it was never really clarified in the finale.
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The unending subplot of Frank Ocean's Blond release appears to have taken yet another turn.
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The best subplot of The Fate of the Furious was one that took place entirely offscreen.
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A subplot throughout the books is how Harry learns to let the Weasleys support him, too.
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It even portrayed everyday American capitalism: A major subplot involves Jennifer's competition with a neighboring restaurant.
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In the words of Steve Zaillian, co-creator of the show, it demands its own subplot.
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It's something that became — I guess you could call it a subplot – essential to his character.
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If this subplot comes to any sort of fruition, I won't be around to find out.
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A subplot involving a resource-consuming technology prompts Burnham to deliver a mini lecture about conservation.
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The more I thought about it, however, the cheaper this entire subplot has started to feel.
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The Deuce even has one weak subplot about journalism to prove that it's a Simon show.
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The sabotage subplot, and the moment where the protagonist has to go meet the aliens alone.
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Only a select, elite few know the lesbian subplot to Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town.
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But there's a subplot that might give this body bag of a story a silver lining.
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A subplot between a tribal warlord and a John Oliver-lookalike is uncomfortable and unfunny. However!
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The most affecting subplot has Walter trying to reproduce his recently deceased wife's sweet potato pie.
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In any case, viewers might be in store for a viral subplot sooner rather than later.
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Such arguments are particularly poignant now, but from a narrative perspective, the whole subplot feels manufactured.
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In the cartoon strip "Peanuts" there was a subplot involving Lucy, Charlie Brown and a football.
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A subplot concerns Bridget's vacillation over what Shakespeare soliloquy to perform for a school acting audition.
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One subplot: The Steelers' Le'Veon Bell has a realistic shot at his first career rushing title.
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There's another subplot here, where Dakota Fanning's character, Barkley, learns that she's actually human, not a robot.
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The Malaysian government requested to cut the subplot; when Disney refused, the authorities decided to back down.
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The plot would thicken for an offseason subplot that hangs over the entire sport every single day.
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There's also the matter of Bridget's mom, whose subplot involves her campaign for a parish council position.
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That was ultimately a too-complicated subplot for the writers to tackle during the show's early seasons.
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It makes even less sense when there's an entire subplot devoted to Connie's own addiction to sugar.
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Even in this bizarre soap opera subplot we were back to making fun of this girl's weight.
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For American TV viewers, it may amount to little more than a minor subplot in NBC's telecast.
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As we watched 2018 breaking news returns, a subplot was rolling across the bottom of our screens.
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It was the Rockaways' own subplot in the rebellion, largely untold, that pricked Mr. Shevlin's swaggering pride.
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It's also the subplot that provides the most humor, which I think will define this show's sensibility.
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There's almost like a separate subplot that eventually meets up with the main storyline with Number Five.
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Nope. There's a genealogical subplot that goes nowhere, and the elder generation of Hennessys are mere shadows.
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In the midst of Ayaana's travels, the novel dives into a subplot about the war on terror.
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Sometimes the film echoes today's headlines, as in the subplot of foreign collusion in an American election.
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That's the case in "Ocean's 8," which includes an irritating subplot involving a very bad former lover.
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A subplot for Lyn, involving a fling with an old flame who's now engaged, is less successful.
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"I had another destination in mind, but this was a better solution," Bendis said of that subplot.
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It's not perfect — a subplot that has Lance fending off advances from his supervisor is arbitrarily sexist.
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It was remade by Antoine Fuqua in 2016, but without the character Petra and her romantic subplot.
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" -- The Dr. Peter Dawson subplot is based on a short story by Penn Jillette called "Pain Addict.
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We thought it allowed us to add this subplot that was a little darker because it added contrast.
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Viewers get their first signal this season will be different thanks to a running subplot about Jessica's hair.
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The original cast is in it, and it features a ton of sex, and even a mafia subplot.
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He's effortlessly charming in the song-and-dance numbers, and surprisingly soulful in his romantic subplot with Zendaya.
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One major subplot involves the signing of the Paris Accord by all but two nations in the world.
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There's no comparable scene in the 1995 anime, but something similar happens in a subplot in the manga.
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Jojo rightly says that the film undermined him, and it undermines the show as a subplot, however brief.
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But there is another, notable subplot here -- and it centers on the Republican senators outside the drafting room.
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Rio's manic preparations for this year's Summer Olympics have now become a familiar subplot to the sports themselves.
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In the absence of plot, however, the novel gathers a different kind of energy, and a political subplot.
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Fans may recognize the added subplot is a clever retooling of a deleted sequence from the animated classic.
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Thanks to President Trump and his lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani, that subplot has now swallowed the story line.
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In both the story (at least in outline) and real life, there is another subplot which concerns forgiveness.
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Even in this bizarre soap opera subplot, we were somehow back to making fun of this girl's weight.
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The acting subplot, meanwhile, relies on meta-talk about vapid network TV that comes across as self-congratulatory.
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Guerrasio: But what inspired you to tell the subplot about a father and his love for his daughter?
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The true poignancy of the episode, however, is revealed in a subplot involving Carrie and her boyfriend Aiden.
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While the Trump campaign contacts with Russia is the main recurring theme, a separate subplot has emerged: surveillance.
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Nor is the overall picture helped by a problematic if predictable subplot involving Zeke's girlfriend ("Euphoria's" Sydney Sweeney).
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That was the subplot to the Yankees' windswept 3-1 victory over the Los Angeles Angels on Sunday.
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Now, if you're looking for say, I don't know, an organ-stealing cult with a bear attack subplot?
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There is a tantalizing subplot to the question of whether Murray will follow Mayfield as the top pick.
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A subplot involving the sexual abuse of a young child is not particularly upsetting, just crude and contrived.
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The question of Warren's heritage was a prominent subplot in her successful 2012 bid to unseat Republican Sen.
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Exploring their stories is an exciting subplot at Luhring Augustine's new medieval art show, Gothic Spirit: Medieval Art.
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And it uses women's experiences — still so often framed as a subplot — to reach the heart of ISIS.
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A subplot to this bit — which was all in good fun — was Teigen attempting to steal from Kris.
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The unsuccessful Hanoi summit ended up feeling like a subplot to the consequential and criminal allegations of Cohen.
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And very often, in a bunch of the episodes, what the family was doing just became a subplot.
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The film marks the beginning of the Kidman/Cruise relationship, but the love story is just a subplot.
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G. Gordon Liddy makes an unusual comedic appearance in a subplot about the mistaken identity of a camp inspector.
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L23's equality campaign is reduced to a lighthearted subplot, apparently unaware of the troubling implications surrounding it raises.
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But seeing each subplot to its resolution slows down the overall pace and dulls Guardians 2's jaunty thrill.
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But the early signs of tension are a reminder history does repeat itself, and it's a subplot worth tracking.
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The biggest subplot of the Oscars coming in was: What would be the big viral Donald Trump–bucking moment?
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Their hookup is a ridiculous subplot, and it's handled with some of the worst flirting since The Phantom Menace.
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I don't mean the Keystone Kops antics of the annoying subplot involving the constable Dogberry and his idiotic watchmen.
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Beyond the original core political controversies, we had Sam going to Oldtown (why?), the much-lamented Dornish subplot (why
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You guys had the border wall before Trump did, and there was a subplot about "Fake Block" and privacy.
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Or at least — with a subplot about Audrey's being viciously abused by her dentist boyfriend — it can't be anymore.
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Tick Tocks: The Adrian Veidt subplot is having trouble sustaining itself as a permanent sidebar to the main action.
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The best subplot involves the security guard, Carter (Tone Bell), an Iraq veteran grappling with post-traumatic stress disorder.
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The gory eight-episode series is equal parts neo-noir and sinister David Lynch salute, with a lesbian subplot.
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The subplot involving the imminent invasion of Denmark by Norway, led by the purposeful Fortinbras, has been eliminated altogether.
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Venezuelans have reacted to the subplot he has introduced to Venezuela's crisis with a mix of bemusement and suspicion.
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Or she builds so much weird, psychological subplot into them that they fly loose of whatever they're allegedly describing.
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While we get a sibling rivalry subplot and surprising details about their parentage, there's nothing relatably human about them.
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The gory eight-episode series is equal parts neo-noir and sinister David Lynch salute, with a lesbian subplot.
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It's a show that doesn't turn victims into a pitying subplot, but instead revamps them into strong, empowering survivors.
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And apparently doing so after a late-stage government intervention… Oh – interesting subplot to today's Court of Appeal's Watson judgment.
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That subplot is actually one of many that could have been intriguing on its own that "The Comedian" under-develops.
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If an old friend from Warhol's Factory invites Devon to check out what's happening in Manhattan, a subplot will develop.
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We never get to see how Nancy's Working Girl subplot resolves because her antagonists, uh, become possessed monsters and explode.
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Throughout "Number Two," there's an entire subplot about teen Kate (Hannah Zeile) secretly applying to the Berklee College of Music.
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The storyline constituted just a single subplot, but it spawned a minor eruption of hot takes, analysis pieces and recaps.
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She occasionally unwinds with a male escort, a subplot which undermines everything we think we know about her pragmatic streak.
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The subplot of the pair's crumbling marriage, complete with a maudlin background score and emotional dialogue, weighs the film down.
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Doubtfire as a family comedy starring Robin Williams that doubled as the inspiration for an especially distressing Arrested Development subplot.
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This season, "Veep" has been more effective than ever at laying breadcrumbs, and the cybersecurity subplot is a perfect example.
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In a running subplot, Zach Woods and Sarah Baker play married professionals who are unable to disguise their mutual loathing.
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That dynamic provides one subplot for an 85th-birthday run, with Mr. Cole at the piano with his working band.
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The Ivy House's garden is gated and locked, so the book has a subplot about the disappearance of a key.
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His character, Jack Irish, is the show's protagonist; he does not carry the primary subplot involving rivals at a racetrack.
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A subplot about butt augmentation is a bad misfire, both scolding and flippant; a digression into Jamie's marriage is dull.
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If I had to guess, I'd say Price probably added in this subplot as a way of developing Anderson's character.
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That subplot at least has some soapy verve, but it feels like it belongs in another, less buttoned-down series.
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That seems to be the subplot in every sequence of the new show, including one about how he loves children.
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The use of high-powered weaponry is an unsettling subplot in Chicago's long-running struggle with gun and gang violence.
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There is a subplot concerning Plumb's estranged mother (Rachel Dratch, on point), but the film doesn't stray far from romance.
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A subplot involves a young marine (Lakeith Stanfield), who questions the strategy he must nonetheless carry out, with terrible consequences.
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The best subplot revolves around Carter (Tone Bell), an Iraq veteran and security guard struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder.
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So yes, there are stories about S.T.D.s and revenge porn, and a remarkable, perceptive abortion subplot in the third episode.
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Another subplot of the evening is that Trump will, at long last, face off with his nemesis Megyn Kelly again.
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That subplot figures to be a key storyline, and from Mayfield's perspective, additional eyeballs on the Browns should be a positive.
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The crucial subplot in Christmas Vacation—which starts as an afterthought but slowly overtakes the movie—concerns Clark Griswold's holiday bonus.
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In any case, their fraught relationship promises to be a subplot ahead of the Knicks' game against the Grizzlies on Jan.
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But the show never brings the Lord of Light subplot full circle, outside of sacrificing his servant Beric to save Arya.
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The point of this subplot seems to be to make Marilyn an unlikable, selfish, and unprofessional jerk, so that was effective.
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No matter what you're going through, there's a Crazy Ex-Girlfriend song for it, and an uncomfortable but ultimately enlightening subplot.
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And she and Minnette have an easy, bantering chemistry in the Clay/Hannah subplot, which is much-expanded for the better.
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There's also a trip to Paris, the return of an old flame, and even a subplot about a man-hunting architect.
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If that's not enough, there's also a random subplot about a girl immigrating from Mexico that pops up here and there.
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Looking back, should the clues to what was to come have been visible as a subplot, at least, to the rejoicing?
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Harry and Cam carry the second season's primary subplot, a lighthearted but bone-cracking account of a squabble among racetrack rivals.
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So does a subplot about a New Age end-of-the-world cult encamped near the beach where the refugees arrive.
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What went into the decision to leave the world of 42nd Street for the West Coast, if only for that subplot?
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In past seasons, she has woven together historical and cultural narratives to give a rich and dense subplot to her clothes.
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One source told the outlet that the series involves a romantic relationship, but Reuters reported that storyline was only a subplot.
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"There" includes an entire subplot devoted to fried chicken, which the African-American member of the buddy duo has never eaten.
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One subplot involves pets that humans have flushed down the toilet or gotten rid of, as the animals plot their revenge.
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As a subplot, it's not very good, but it does at least commit to making all the journalists wear sweater vests.
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Still, dare we say, nothing has been as crazy as the most recent subplot of Cheryl Blossom (Madelaine Petsch) joining a cult.
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The relationship between Vilela and her staffers, including her manager, is another interesting — and poignant — subplot that the film doesn't dive into.
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The academic subplot is a light but welcome addition to the film, grounding big ideas in a relatable vision of high school.
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Meanwhile, we're treated to a decent subplot where Wags (David Costabile) fights his way to the last prime burial plot in Manhattan.
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Mr. Jones fares less well with the ripe comic subplot in the original, concerning the bumbling constable Dogberry and his associate Verges.
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Bleacher Report framed the Rodgers family rift as a subplot, an explanation why Aaron was struggling on the field at the time.
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Extra Credit - There's an entire subplot about Ana realizing she's the only person in her friend group who hasn't kissed a girl.
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Tucker explains it in three ways: efficient action lines, the last line is the point of the scene, and the subplot character.
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By now, you've probably noticed an unsurprising pattern emerging: Building a convincing romantic subplot in a superhero movie requires time and effort.
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Unionization—a subplot in Sinclair's novel—provided some leverage for workers, and eased the hellish working conditions that he so vividly described.
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Currently, the most promising subplot is the posthumous message from Major Briggs, secreted in an enigmatic metal tube hidden inside a chair.
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A literary novel with a squirrel subplot may sound improbable, yet McKenzie adroitly skirts the line between the plausible and the absurd.
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Both teams scored in bunches initially in the rematch, and a shootout between Evans and Tulsa's Junior Etou provided a compelling subplot.
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In the trilogy, there was a running subplot surrounding the diplomacy of tea, which served as a symbol of civilization (and colonization).
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A subplot involving a theatrical agent who doubles as a pimp for victimized Bollywood actresses echoes several real-life Indian prostitution scandals.
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In this case, that means introducing a romantic subplot that conveniently replaces an intractable thematic question — Why this man, above all others?
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If a character isn't going to fulfill a role, if an Oedipal subplot starts sucking gas, bury it out on the road.
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The major trial-balloon subplot — and by far the most successful — is a long historical flashback interwoven with the contemporary goings-on.
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But the town loner subplot is enormous fun, and Jess and Luke's confrontation over Jess's new job at Walmart is note-perfect.
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That comes with a considerable risk, however, one that will provide the most fascinating — and possibly most important — subplot to the tournament.
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In a related subplot, we were given both some comic relief and some spy-story tension via the Gennadi-and-Sofia story.
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The tone turns saccharine and then, with a sex-work subplot that could be ripped from a nineteenth-century penny dreadful, maudlin.
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There's an absurd subplot in which Ester (Ludivine Sagnier), a devout, married Madonna figure, is drafted to seduce Pius into a scandal.
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Or the abuse victim who's reluctant to leave her husband, a subplot that's more disturbing but also strays into "Fifty Shades" territory?
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And I loved "The Singing Detective," a then-edgy TV series featuring depression-era dance hall numbers and a subplot involving psoriasis.
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In the end, she turns down an offer to commit to the space project, making the subplot entirely self-contained and disposable.
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The sweetest subplot involves the romance between Katherine, a widow with three daughters, and a handsome military officer played by Mahershala Ali.
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Nagy's most gripping subplot involves Jim's decision to exile his young son to an undeveloped island in a kind of muscular christening.
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And though Roger's time with the Mohawk isn't quite over, it's hard to imagine this subplot will develop much nuance from here.
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There's also quite a bit about its other defining failure, Hurricane Katrina, and a good, MacGuffinish Bush family subplot that Ross uncovers.
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His next contract is a pivotal summer subplot that may change the short- and long-term course of this small-market team.
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The script was changed heavily just last night, to incorporate a new subplot, and they're getting their bearings with the new story.
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Jerry becoming a professional stoner and edibles tycoon is easily the most plausible subplot the series has offered in the first four episodes.
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One subplot involving French-African magic man Yusuf Kama (William Nadylam) and Leta Lestrange (Zoe Kravitz), Newt's Hogwarts crush, is downright head-spinning.
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Every set piece, every off-hand remark, and every subplot is in service to main theme—what does it mean to be human?
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I propose, here, a subplot in which Dellavedova and his large former teammate Timofey Mozgov become friends, and solve mysteries involving stolen artifacts.
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But while there are certainly bad implementations — like, maybe don't ruin your romance subplot with a trophy — I happen to personally love them.
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It has a mightily winking subplot about parents turning into consumer zombies because of a gooey toy their kids have made a fad.
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This is probably the only feel-good family comedy you'll see this year that features an Alfred Hitchcock-inspired subplot about child abuse.
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Next week that dynamic will provide one subplot for an 85433th-birthday run, with Mr. Cole at the piano with his working band.
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And perhaps most disturbingly, it gave us the comedic rape subplot in Sixteen Candles, John Hughes's much beloved and iconic 1984 teen romance.
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The only thing more odious than Welch himself might be his family, the venal, abusive, incestuous clan that forms the book's gothic subplot.
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Mr. Aiello suggests caring for Bernie has not had an entirely positive impact on her parents' relationship, but does not explore that subplot.
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"Its bigger problem is a timely subplot about virulent racism among white Americans that comes off as a mishandled afterthought," Hollywood Reporter said.
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Speculation about his future has swirled for months — a sticky subplot as the Warriors pursued another championship — but his injury could complicate matters.
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West's comments about the president — and the president's comments about him — have been a bit of a befuddling subplot of the Trump era.
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And he promises to do it justice, after years of bemoaning the fact that The Last Stand reduced the arc to a mere subplot.
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An ongoing subplot of Taffy Brodesser-Akner's new novel involves expansive use of emojis in divorcée sexting, and what any particular one might mean.
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An interesting subplot here is that Republicans spent months and months promising not to do this before having a last-minute change of heart.
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When every subplot, surprise, and cliffhanger is in service of an event we all know is coming, all the tension and surprise is lost.
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The series makes good use of period songs, and elicits credible performances from its kid contingent, although the teenage subplot proves a little tiresome.
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This is one subplot that shouldn't be spoiled, so just prepare yourself for the completely aces performance this woman is about to give you.
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A subplot involving the mysterious disappearance of Howard's teen daughter adds a frisson of dread that's strategically leveraged to catalyze the characters' conclusive confrontation.
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Even though that scenario sounds like the subplot of a Mr. Robot episode, that's precisely what happened to recently ousted Catalan president Carles Puigdemont.
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Even "Grocery Clerk with Half an Eyelid" (Benjamin Siemon) introduced as a throwaway line in a song, turns up in a later romantic subplot.
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Some are part of a long game; some are just happy to make out with Jeremy until it's time for their subplot to start.
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Astute viewers have been waiting to see how the show was going to pay off that subplot, which has been hiding in plain sight.
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There's also a legal subplot that never quite takes off, in which an F.B.I. agent, Abe Gaines (Rockmond Dunbar), tries to infiltrate the group.
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Though a romantic subplot featuring flirtatious glances and Werk Room canoodling makes for great reality TV, sex and dating in drag can be complicated.
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Maybe a professional stint in the electronic music world should only ever be a metaphorical half-forgotten sitcom subplot in any reasonable person's existence.
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The tale of how Schuler, who ran Madrigal's fast food division, became Fring's silent partner is as worthy a subplot as I can imagine.
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Writers crib from Shakespeare because the stories are lodged in our collective recall, but so full of subplot and nuance they can be remade.
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Of course Fred escapes — taunting the enemy, he briefly turns into a self-proclaimed Jewish superhero — and his adventure is folded into a subplot.
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This subplot has a nice X-Files feel to it, and Elsie learns that the voices the robots have been hearing have been broadcasted.
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This episode has no time for any such focus, as chaos erupts from every existing subplot, as well as from a few new ones.
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The novel Jaws is based on has an entire subplot about the local Mafia that landed on the cutting room floor for the film.
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A person who knows of Don Peppe only as a scheme of Turtle's in an "Entourage" subplot may ask to see the wine list.
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The power of televised hearings has been something of a subplot to the Trump presidency, from James Comey to Brett Kavanaugh to Robert Mueller.
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The villain of the season's blackmail subplot seems to have been cooked up in that same lab: a creative millennial desperate to be liked.
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But there was a subplot to the defeat: the Yankees' lack of elite starting pitchers — and their failure to acquire some who were available.
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There's a lengthy subplot about an engaged couple — played by the game John Magaro and Rachel Brosnahan — that ultimately just sort of flails around.
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Meanwhile, Nancy and Jonathan were off in their own totally separate subplot, and it felt largely tangential and inessential relative to the main action.
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Elle's ride-or-die Lee (Joel Courtney) is also involved in the action, though it's unclear if he will have a romantic subplot moving forward.
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There's also a guy madly playing the cello on a building rooftop and a subplot about a hijab-clad photographer thrown in for good measure.
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Perhaps most tellingly, there is a subplot in Van Johnson about Russians who are trying to control the weather and infiltrate the US movie system.
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She was no longer the show's victim, but rather the subplot of a narrative about two men who may or may not have killed her.
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To understand the global balance of power in the coming decades, it helps to pay attention to the commercial subplot of the North Korean crisis.
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In a subplot of the shutdown, Pelosi told Trump that he should reschedule his annual State of the Union while the government's funding was frozen.
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That subplot turns a wide-open world about emotional choices and consequences into a predictable ride along some straight-line tracks to an obvious ending.
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One subplot sees Yahia's aristocratic gay uncle fall passionately in love with a British GI whom he at first schemes to kidnap and to kill.
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So the post-credits sequence ties up the Sakaar revolution subplot, and also gives Jeff Goldblum one last chance to do his Jeff Goldblum thing.
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At first blush, Deadpool 2 seems to deliver with a subplot about its Merc with a Mouth hitting on the shiny beefcake Colossus (Stefan Kapicic).
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The narrative around his archives, split between Mexico and Switzerland, intrigues me as a gothic love story with a copyright and intellectual property rights subplot.
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The bathroom subplot that involves Kathryn running half a mile on the NASA campus to go to the colored bathroom was so serious and affecting.
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Also distracting is a subplot that traces Peter's friendship with Rebecca's brother David, their time volunteering in Africa and David's death from complications of AIDS.
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Furthermore, after two focused, immersive episodes I found all the temporal skipping around—from 1995 to 1997, from Jeff's backstory to the Versace subplot—distracting.
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Bruce and Natasha's romance is a significant subplot in Age of Ultron, and this exchange helps establish some of the motives behind what happens next.
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As a result, the beat is sometimes reduced to a subplot in national stories by reporters who lack familiarity with the faith traditions in play.
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The biggest subplot, though, is that the tournament is being played in the shadow of a widespread federal investigation into corruption in college basketball recruiting.
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He has a screenwriter's knack for getting everyone in the same room, and the early stories fuse plot and subplot in a consistently surprising fashion.
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The entire dust-the-truck subplot of this week's episode was the best part of an hour that at times felt a bit padded out.
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A little precious goes a long way, and this tale of late-life growth soon tailspins with an overworked subplot involving Carlotta's guilt-ridden granddaughter.
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It wouldn't even have to be a full episode, just a subplot, perhaps to gain the trust of a new mercenary hacker squad or something.
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Regardless of how you feel about the Girl Scouts, debunking their stated purpose is a really weird objective for the major subplot of a movie.
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Surgeons are being replaced with "pantographic" robots that record and replay operations, and a subplot follows one of the protagonists' comically elaborate plans to confuse them.
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What's more, Stefan's daughter Freda's (Flora Thiemann) subplot romance with a Nazi extremist teenager is given all the complexity of a thimble, neutering any possible nuance.
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In perhaps the weirdest subplot of America's wild presidential election, an offhand comment by Vladimir Putin seems to have had a similar effect on Donald Trump.
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He expands a subplot about Montag's free-spirited neighbor Clarisse, who is given a larger role as a young teacher resisting her school's stifling educational curriculum.
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You can't always get what you want A recurring "West Wing" subplot depicts long-simmering tension between Bartlet and his vice president, the past primary rival.
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This whimsical 2001 film starring Audrey Tautou is about a woman trying to help the people around her, and yes, there is an adorable romantic subplot.
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While Maggie, Sasha, and Jesus are arguing with Gregory over Rick's rather poor handling of The Saviors, we get an interesting subplot between Carl and Enid.
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Season two is more overt, enlisting Jon Hamm to narrate educational interludes about madness and featuring a subplot that compares delusional thought to a contagious virus.
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You know how Netflix is always suggesting you watch a Psycho-Thriller Comedy With A Strong Female Lead And Vague Romantic Subplot Plus Conspiracy Theory Twist?
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A subplot in which Selina hires a grizzled recount expert (Martin Mull) echoes today's candidates enlisting old-timers who remember the arcane game of contested conventions.
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The "Pocahontas" political controversy is a subplot of a larger issue: Whether Warren materially benefited during her career as a law professor from claiming minority status.
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He is meant to be sympathetic and reflective, but unfortunately Marías involves him in a hoary subplot involving affairs, a suicide attempt and a dead baby.
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And in an unexpected subplot, the two connect, form a bond, and, after the film was completed, Mr. Lynch, the "Twin Peaks" creator, becomes executive producer.
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Think about his ode to women's breasts at the 2014 Oscars, or the subplot about an alien who essentially exudes date rape drugs on The Orville.
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Elon Musk and Tesla offer a gripping corporate tale and coveted electric cars, but when it comes to climate change, they are a rather minor subplot.
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The chef-related subplot and the nuances of maintaining a secret cephalopodan identity lift the game a full head— and eight extra limbs— above the rest.
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"Second Act" is more of a workplace comedy, with a dramatic family subplot; for once, the relationship is secondary to the character's evolution, which Lopez loved.
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And in a striking coda, Dieu Lan even surrenders her enmity toward Wicked Ghost, who becomes re-entangled with the family through a winning romantic subplot.
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A chilling recurrent subplot involves the remarkably rapid regrouping of undeterred ex-Nazis, already inventing denialism, networking transnationally and dreaming up a renewed pan-fascist future.
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Theorists like Michael Jensen, the economist whose twisting life story is a subplot here, were arguing that corporations were not sufficiently focused on their own profits.
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A religious-persecution subplot finds Shakespeare having to hide his connections to Roman Catholicism and also gives the show an excuse to indulge in bloody tortures.
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In Jenny Offill's melancholy and satirical third novel, "Weather," there's a small subplot about the narrator's friendship with a car service driver in New York City.
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Instead, my subplot was entrusted to a bike that embodied the relevant history: a vintage East German shopping bike with two gears and 20-inch wheels.
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Now, could I see Sasha dying and Eugene later pretending that he was faking his Savior loyalty, after which his festering secret becomes a mini-subplot?
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Glenn's is-he-or-isn't-he-dead arc was the most polarizing subplot of the first half of the season, with many viewers unhappy with the trickery.
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Season two has its own high points, particularly its subplot with John Smith's son, a true Nazi believer who is slowly becoming aware of his "defective" condition.
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As for the big reveal at the end, well, part of me felt like it might go down like that, given the prominence of the Jadis subplot.
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This particular subplot gently acknowledges racism and the way it impacts our lives at work; the power of Black female friendships; and assumptions about Black women's desirability.
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That subplot has some compelling seeds, particularly about how a woman's desire for privacy can conflict with an obligation to warn other potential victims about a predator.
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I cannot stress enough how squeamish the domestic violence subplot is, and the abusive character's redemption is far more generous than what most any spousal abuser deserves.
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Worse still is the tragic end of Limón's relationship with Maritza, a subplot invented for the thin purpose of showing ordinary people crushed by the drug business.
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That the madman McConnell brought to power is now wise to, and frustrated with, McConnell's cynicism is a Shakespearean subplot in our otherwise quotidian flirtation with Armageddon.
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Yes, there's a rather tedious subplot involving a jealous co-worker, but the writing is good, you get a real sense of the industry and the era.
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A subplot involving two novices at a local convent whom the French seek to debauch starts out promisingly, yet, like everything else in the play, leads nowhere.
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That's about the most interesting subplot of this game, as the Texans (8-3) are much farther along in their development and should win easily at home.
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A subplot about Kevin getting conscripted into a production of "The Wiz" is refreshing, and Shamon Brown Jr. is a delight as Kevin's husky, confident friend Papa.
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The other major subplot on Sunday intensified the ongoing conflict between the Stark girls, and also grounded an episode that was capital-F fantasy north of Wall.
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His snapshot of a nun carrying a dead baby in her arms becomes the first clue in a dark subplot about the stolen children of "degenerate" Republicans.
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In one subplot, Mr. Augustin, whose earlier play "Little Children Dream of God" was likewise studded with loveliness, has Aaron try to reconnect with his first boyfriend.
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The whole subplot had an almost vintage "Star Trek" feel, with Rick and the Gang beaming down to a junkyard planet to grapple with the alien natives.
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Lessons about intolerance — in a subplot, immigration officials abuse their power and plan a vendetta-driven raid in Chinatown — are interwoven with the hand-to-hand skirmishes.
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Unsavory optics also figure into Chuck's subplot this week, as he drags his son into a photo op to buttress his ascending public image for political office.
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I have other problems with the episode, especially with the Dolores subplot, which isn't bad but definitely feels grafted on to an episode that's about other things.
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In an unexpectedly meta subplot, Ellen is also haunted by the death of a young woman who admired her Tumblr "thinspiration" drawings and sent her a suicide note.
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It's one part buddy comedy and one part social commentary, seasoned with musical interventions straight from the land of Hamilton and an interesting subplot that deserved more attention.
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Its least convincing moments are when the movie attempts to be emotionally truthful: the subplot of Amy's dwindling marriage is even less believable than the bawdy supermarket scene.
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Of course, Mazin's Chernobyl failed to dive into this whole thrilling subplot of dastardly American operatives snipping wires and flipping switches since, you know, that didn't actually happen.
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If there is an intriguing subplot to the success of Gray and Anderson that goes beyond "good pitching is good pitching," it has to revolve around their arsenals.
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The producer Harry Weinberger (Steven Rattazzi) decides to present an English translation at the Provincetown Playhouse that eliminates the lesbian love subplot, to the dismay of Dorothee (Ms.
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I'm not going to get too worked up about this subplot until I see where it's headed, but let's hope that the Iron Islands aren't this year's Dorne.
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The production especially finds resonance in one particular subplot, making it seem a commentary on the modern-day scourges of date rape and campus sexual assault (2:9673).
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The production especially finds resonance in one particular subplot, making it seem a commentary on the modern-day scourges of date rape and campus sexual assault (2:003).
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This subplot, with Simon boldly undermining his boss by killing Jadis' people, seems likely to culminate with a severe punishment when — and not if — Negan discovers Simon's transgression.
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One compelling subplot follows a woman who lost her home when the GM plant closed, who now hopes to regain her footing by working at the revived factory.
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But now that it has apparently harnessed its dragon powers, "Game of Thrones" must figure out how to keep a subplot that has the ultimate trump card interesting.
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The production especially finds resonance in one particular subplot, making it seem a commentary on the modern-day scourges of date rape and campus sexual assault (242:2400).
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Yet one subplot that may be important for understanding this drama is that there's rampant speculation that both Hannity and Kelly could leave Fox News after the election.
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A subplot of the saga is the betrayal of Mr. Manafort by his longtime deputy Rick Gates, who had been at his side for the last dozen years.
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There is an odd lack of stage directions and that superfluous subplot, the story of Gloucester, which just echoes the main action (a father betrayed by his child).
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When it's revealed that Pierre's younger sister, Jaqueline (Lais Dias), was also stolen by Arcay, the film doesn't pursue the matter, and a potentially rich subplot is lost.
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As Knives Out enters its second act, it complicates things with a subplot wherein Harlan has named his nurse, Marta, to be the inheritor of Harlan's entire estate.
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T. The movie wraps up by cashing in on an interracial friendship subplot for Auralie, a putative feel-good flourish that just feels unearned, to say the least.
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He called the subplot in "The Social Network" that showed Zuckerberg starting Facebook as a way to meet girls to be "utter bulls---" not based on anything factual.
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The Tillerson-Haley dynamic has been an unmistakable subplot of the annual General Assembly gathering, which brings together leaders from the 193 member states of the United Nations.
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If the entire subplot is built on an outdated, misogynist foundation, is it still fair to find Lydia to be a loathsome heel by the end of it?
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In fact, there's an entire second villain subplot that's so disconnected from the rest of the story that I'd briefly wonder if I'd accidentally started watching a different show.
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A subplot has Winston, buoyed by wedding fever, telling new beau Aly (Nasim Pedrad) that she'll make a beautiful bride – which she responds to by promptly leaving the loft.
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Everyone's least favorite subplot, one that consumed hours of time on this series and ultimately went nowhere and somehow still feels oddly unresolved as a part of the show.
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In this regard, the subplot brought back the "Breaking Bad" trope of a criminal underbelly, hiding in plain sight, something "Better Call Saul" could stand to do more often.
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Jeff Biehl, as the mastiff, captures his character's sad and lonely life in the stellar subplot: his warm and eventually joyous romance with a moorhen, played by Jessica Love.
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And its last season included a prominent subplot about Keenan Feldspar, a Palmer Luckey stand-in whose much-hyped virtual reality technology literally blows up in its users' faces.
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In this subplot, robots are attacking their masters and while some of the attacks are explained by intentional espionage, others might be the result of a genuine robot revolt.
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The human touch that transcends duty—such as a subplot in which North and South Korean enemy soldiers help each other—appealed, as did the refreshingly strong female lead.
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Both men had to seek emergency courtside treatment, a late subplot to Wednesday's game at Oracle Arena as the Warriors eliminated the Portland Trail Blazers from the N.B.A. playoffs.
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On that note, a minor subplot of "The Lost and the Plunderers" has Enid and Aaron headed to Oceanside, where its all-female crew of survivors has holed up.
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Stamford Bridge will be the backdrop to an intriguing subplot involving two of the most excitable managers in the league and goals should trigger wild celebrations on the touchline.
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The subplot produces the episode's line of the week, from a Sam Goody manager in on the scheme and pleading financial hardship: "I just bought a bumper-pool table."
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Yet it is entirely willing to feature a lengthy, supposedly hilarious subplot in which a drunk and unconscious girl is passed from one boy to another and then raped.
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The jokes about Buffy's demon roommate are serviceable but a little on the lazy side (She's into Cher — she must be evil!), and there's no compelling subplot to compensate.
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"Luke Can See Her Face" (season 4, episode 20) After building up the Luke and Lorelai subplot for four seasons, here's where the show finally gives us some payoff.
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In the film, Setsu is subjected to a gang rape, but onstage, this is only hinted at, and red herrings keep distracting the audience from this subplot and others.
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In yet another tabloid-baiting subplot, lawyers for Dr. Luke are demanding a deposition from Lady Gaga, whom they say received defamatory text messages about the producer from Kesha.
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At a few junctures, there's an Almodóvarian air to "Los Espookys," particularly in a subplot about a glamorous newscaster, Gregoria, who appears to have been bewitched into her celebrity.
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"Calamity" Jane Canary (Robin Weigert) gets the most attention, in a subplot involving her budding connection with Joanie Stubbs (Kim Dickens) that was left hanging when the show ended.
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There's also a subplot that goes nowhere involving an old bully who breaks out of a mental asylum just to threaten the Losers a little more, at Pennywise's behest.
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In Season 2, this knack was crystallized in "ronny/lily," a subplot that took Barry into the home of a competitive Taekwondo monster and his even more skilled child.
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For instance, in her 73 novel The Silkworm (published under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith), Rowling includes a jarring subplot involving a trans woman who's framed through a transphobic lens.
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Greatly complicating matters is a subplot about the firefighter's soldier brother, whose death at the hands of another trooper is covered up, turning the brother into a malevolent spirit.
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Jake gets sidelined into a lengthy subplot that mostly exists to make fun of '90s movies' depictions of the internet, featuring an over-the-top French film professor named Soufflot.
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The Atlantic's Molly Ball shared her reporting on how that divide will be a subplot as Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, holds his annual political retreat this week in Utah.
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Infinity War uses a comedic subplot to avoid the kind of CGI-loaded final showdown that fans and critics bitterly complained about in films like Wonder Woman and Justice League.
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The scenes with Patty and Matt don't yet justify the presence of this entire other subplot in a show that already sprawls so expansively, especially since they're so often trite.
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This subplot becomes the focus of the dark last bit of the film, and appears likely to be the center and tone of the rest of the franchise going forward.
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But by giving Maisie a secondary assignment to find a runaway socialite, Winspear throws in a sizzling subplot about well-born young women who are whooping it up in Germany.
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Her complicated relationship with her brother's career as well as her clairvoyance takes center stage—a narrative decision that arguably gives her the most powerful subplot of all five siblings.
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Jon Snow's resurrection a few weeks ago included a haircut, which was an oddly heated subplot during the off-season, and we've had several in-jokes about his brooding nature.
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In a truly twisted revenge subplot, a teen pageant queen recruits Bob to be her coach but takes off her clothes when he visits her house to talk about it.
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Manigault Newman's differences with Kelly have been noted before and make up something of a subplot in her recent book where she parts starkly with Trump and criticizes his character.
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The film, which stars Emilia Clarke and Sam Claflin and opens Friday, June 3, omits a troubling subplot — a rape that seems out of place in an already dark book.
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Mr. Jenkins plays Giles, a closeted artist and Elisa's close friend, whose own lovelorn travails (like an unrequited crush on a pie-shop worker) are a subplot of the film.
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"The Cruel Sea" had a pallid romance tucked into a subplot, but that didn't interest me at all; I just wanted to get back to the men on the ship.
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There's more than a little "Fargo" in the darkly funny subplot in which a South Dakota man (Matthew Lillard) may have committed murder, à la Leland Palmer, under paranormal influence.
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A subplot involves Kim's being forced to leave her pro bono work to do a job for her corporate employer, Mesa Verde, forcing an old man out of his house.
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And that I'll know quid pro quo, if you will, where Yovanovitch goes away and the official keeps leaning on the Bidens makes that subplot of impeachment a lot clearer.
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The subplot is so well known that it has become an American cultural metaphor for a situation in which someone allows himself to be repeatedly fooled by the same trick.
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Eddie's subplot, which depicts him as henpecked by his abusive mother and later his shrewish wife, seems particularly negligible and problematic in the context of other elements of the film.
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That makes a subplot tacked on to put Anastasia and others in peril -- the seeds of which were planted in the last film -- feel all the more strained and absurd.
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A subplot involves Antonina's precarious balancing act as she charms the besotted Lutz, and resists surrendering to his increasingly aggressive moves as her jealous husband watches nervously from a distance.
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For the last 2 years, Amazon has largely been a subplot in the global backlash against Big Tech, with much of the scrutiny on Facebook, Uber and Google — until now.
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The enthusiasm for the latest four-episode run -- which again features Ruth Wilson's implacable killer, Alice Morgan -- dissipates amid a subplot involving another psychosexual serial killer, feeling more tired than usual.
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But his steadfast commitment severs every meaningful tie he has, whether through his own violence or cold estrangement (as seen in a subplot with his daughter Peggy, played by Anna Paquin).
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And all this contrasts with a slowly emerging subplot involving the underfunded local public school, where African-American teachers find themselves accused of denying resources to the poorer, mostly Hispanic students.
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He even gets a romantic subplot of his own, as he falls for Jasmine's handmaiden Dalia (Nasim Pedrad, bringing pitch-perfect comedic line delivery to her role) — a strong story update.
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In both George R.R. Martin's books and the HBO show, the groundwork for Jon's resurrection was laid with a years-old subplot far from the Wall involving Jon's sister, Arya Stark.
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His subplot ultimately leads to a clever cross-reality plot twist that plays a pivotal role in the final episode, but first, it spends a lot of time spinning its wheels.
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But "Wrath" throws the entire Dwight subplot overboard in the first 15 minutes of the episode, wasting the immense emotional investment the show has encouraged viewers to make in his character.
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For as much as Practical Magic owes Thelma and Louise, it could have learned a crucial lesson — namely, that it didn't need a romantic subplot in any way, shape, or form.
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She spends the first half of the season in a remote cabin, the kind of subplot Heroes had to give Hiro so he wouldn't just deus that failing phenomenon's busted machina.
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The Democratic race has a bizarre election subplot tinged with allegations that Giunchigliani, a Clark County commissioner known as Chris G, was soft on sexual predators while she was an assemblywoman.
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And it will take place against a suddenly intense subplot of the GOP presidential race, a looming establishment bloodbath advanced by Marco Rubio's late sprint to a strong third in Iowa.
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There's also a subplot with Reggie Watts that feels utterly forced: Watts plays himself, and David and his team hire the musician/comedian to create promotional materials for the Augmenta system.
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A subplot, featuring Scott Glenn as a blind guru and member of a Chinese secret society, also suggests the programme may be set to move into the realms of outright fantasy.
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From there, the movie basically turns into Troop Beverly Hills, but with more cursing and a corporate intrigue subplot: Inspired by Claire's daughter, Michelle starts a for-profit Girl Scouts clone.
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As in The Changeling, this subplot develops the theme of true madness so that it can be understood in the main plot, which is otherwise simply full of stupidity, or folly.
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The night's most compelling subplot involved 76ers Coach Brett Brown, and Lakers General Manager Mitch Kupchak onstage knowing Philadelphia would receive the Lakers' pick if it fell below the first three.
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He dithers, and a fair amount of screen time is devoted to a subplot in which he fraudulently jacks up the price of an Art Deco desk he's trying to sell.
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There are also stretches when "Happy Hour" succumbs to melodrama: A warning that Sakurako's teenage son has been spending a lot of time with his girlfriend clumsily portends an abortion subplot.
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The Bernard-Dolores subplot in this episode recalls "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind," which also uses a high-concept science-fiction scenario to express essential truths about the human mind.
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And a subplot involving Dr. Campbell's real identity, which involves her switching somehow to a private channel to take calls from the dean, and from her mother, seems a trifle contrived.
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The precariousness of Maggie's pregnancy has been a persistent subplot this half of the season, through the Battle of Alexandria, the assault on the Saviors and her subsequent captivity and abuse.
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As the episode title suggests, there's also a subplot about switching jackets with Hefner himself, as well as one involving a Make-A-Wish kid's desire to see a naked woman.
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In a subplot that doesn't add much, Robert plays in a punk band led by his sister, Annie (Esme Appleton), that falls prey to petty internecine squabbling and frustrated secret desires.
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"Bodyguard" combines "the most popular genres in British TV" — the crime drama and the conspiracy thriller — while "also incorporating the always popular subplot of forbidden sex," he wrote in an email.
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That subtext is brought home by a subplot involving a gay doctor who secretly performs abortions and operations to help the half-blood children of humans and fae pass as human.
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It says something that their mortal enmity — with the triad member emerging from prison with bloody vengeance on his mind — barely rates as a minor sub-subplot in this crowded narrative.
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It is widely thought to have been inspired by Bharara's long-term investigation of Steven Cohen, the founder of SAC Capital Advisors; there is also a fanciful subplot involving sadomasochistic sex.
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He says that she didn't want to cut the movie or its darker side, including a murder subplot; put differently, she wanted the same kind of artistic prerogative granted other filmmakers.
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The less substantial one is that it wraps a workplace subplot around Ray (now going by Peter), where people are trying to track him down for something he did at work.
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They began focusing on another McCabe subplot: that he had allowed a "leak" about an FBI investigation to the media during 2016 and then lied about it to the agency's inspector general.
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The show has become incredibly adept at taking a morsel of a much larger and telling aspect of the tech industry and using it as a springpad for a traditional sitcom subplot.
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But the zenith of this season was this week's "Ship It," a glorious pocket of 40-something minutes in which a housewife literally shitting herself is the third subplot of the episode.
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Perhaps Rick won't be killed (unlikely), and he'll be the one who departs on the mysterious helicopter to join another larger community as the Jadis subplot seems to be foreshadowing (unlikelier still).
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The F.B.I. fails to snare the fixer in a sting operation, likely bringing an end to the subplot, which now seems to have existed mostly to justify that lesbian coke-snorting session.
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Eight episodes, one unruly subplot involving Jurassic Park, and dozens of bowls of noodles later, the show reveals who was responsible for the attacks, and, more importantly, why attacks are still happening.
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Along the way, Assayas peppers in a murder subplot, a text-based mystery between Paris and London that features almost no dialogue, and, oh yes, a not-so-benevolent and scary spirit.
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My favorite subplot is that of Katherine "Kat" Hernandez, a plus-sized girl who come to terms with her body in a sex-positive (again, more extensively than you would think) manner.
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And of course there has to be a subplot in The Never Game about—and I'm not going to give anything away here—but is perhaps real estate behind what's going on?
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There's a lot going on here (including a WWII subplot), maybe for a bit too long (152 minutes), though when the film lets loose towards the end it's a gloriously thrilling spectacle.
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Harper is a perfectly nice mother-to-be, the Fireman has done an amazing job of harnessing the power of flame, and each subplot has enough baggage to fill a 16-wheeler.
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The subplot to that, and it's an odd one, comes from "Star Wars" fans who see "Solo's" underwhelming results as vindication -- a blow against the Disney empire, and Lucasfilm chief Kathleen Kennedy.
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Clearly disturbed and volatile, Sara provides the horror subplot of the show—after her classmates vanish, she takes to drawing eerie portraits of the dead and hanging them all over the school.
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Meanwhile, a savvy Treasury Department analyst (Cynthia Addai-Robinson) with a past of her own closes in on Christian in a boring subplot that drags the film down, but still pays off.
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A key subplot of the series remains: When she's not cracking cases, Alice is on the trail of her fiancé (Peter Krause), who conned her out of her life savings, then vanished.
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The schism between Mr. Trump and his attorney general has become a persistent subplot of his administration, an almost Shakespearean rift between a president and one of his earliest and strongest supporters.
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This puzzling subplot is mostly an excuse to get all of the Bayer-Boatwrights in the same place, a park where the family celebrated birthdays when Greg and Audrey's kids were little.
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BUCHANAN In the first "Avengers" movie, Joss Whedon had a deleted subplot that would just track a ground-level waitress as she reacted to all the big battles going on in Manhattan.
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Thrust into the middle of all of this is a needless subplot about Davis's 16-year-old daughter, B.D., who suddenly announces that she is getting married, throwing Davis into a tailspin.
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A subplot surrounding Garland's connection to the LGBTQ community is among the film's more moving aspects, and Jessie Buckley's take on Rosalyn Wilder, Garland's London-based wrangler and personal assistant, is masterful.
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In a running subplot in the new season, the dilettante Shohei describes how he doesn't want to choose between working as an actor and being a model or journalist or furniture designer.
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Please, for the love of all that is holy, give us a season five episode about Rick and Morty facing off against Wesley Sniper with a subplot about Jerry's various Twitter beefs.
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The story perhaps lacks some of the emotional heft of the first film, and it occasionally cuts awkwardly between its superhero-driven main story (starring Elastigirl!) and a domestic comedy subplot about Mr.
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In fact, it may just signal a fan theory—popularized by the very smart ASOIAF blogger Poor Quentyn—that the Iron Islands subplot might involve the summoning of a Cthulhu-type Lovecraftian god.
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All these threads are developed excessively and unconvincingly, and when the knots are at last unraveled, the payoff is anticlimactic, perhaps because this whole subplot was never integral to the book's central concerns.
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Those who watched the inaugural season will recall the heart-wrenching subplot focused on Moira, the ghost maid of The Murder Hose, and her to struggle to reunite with her mother in Heaven.
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Also, in an unnecessary subplot meant to humanize a character that isn't particularly human in the first place, we meet a teenage girl (Danika Yarosh) who may or may not be Reacher's daughter.
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There's a whole subplot with Dickens's father, John, which is incredibly sweaty in its attempts to justify its existence when, really, it could have been cut entirely from the movie without much effort.
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But whether in response to the criticism over Sansa's rape or because this is how this subplot was always designed, the show is finally handling the fallout of sexual violence with some nuance.
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There is so much womanizing that the theme of infidelity is basically a subplot, and pretty much boils down to the following: A stunning model walks into a photographer's studio; a marriage dies.
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An undeveloped, time-wasting subplot is thrown in involving Lucien's shy pursuit of Hazel (Christa Théret), a promising young soprano who sings at the same benefit and has all the talent Marguerite lacks.
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Many took offense to the stereotypical portrayal of a Vietnamese character named Dong — as well as a subplot that revealed white actress Jane Krakowski's blond-haired, blue-eyed character has Native American heritage.
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Bible doesn't fully achieve this; rather, he appends the mystical registers of experience to his main narrative by way of a fantasy subplot that clings only loosely to the rest of the book.
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The cancer doctor, who has missed five years of research, is amazed to learn her hypotheses have led to revolutionary new treatment — it's an intriguing concept that could make for a compelling subplot.
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And in the subplot, which dominates the other with the dazzle of its dialogue, the witty Beatrice and Benedick argue the terms of their intimacy despite having forsworn marriage and especially each other.
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On one level it refers to a convoluted penultimate-act conspiracy to take down Lindbergh (the series departs from the novel on the specifics in a subplot involving Alvin that is frankly muddled).
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There's also the barely-sketched-in subplot of Frankie's angst as a black girl adopted by a very white family, plus the sexual politics of her queer love triangle between Jo and Phoenix.
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The swampy story of his son's business dealings overseas while Biden was vice president — a subplot of the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump — was dispensed with quickly, within the first 20 minutes.
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An American Olympic-hero-turned-double-agent, Weston is a character plucked from a different era, and this subplot seems less about a national security threat than like a six-figure poker game.
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In one subplot that's barely connected to the main story, one of Pengkor's allies sets out to resurrect an ancient evil who's familiar with Gundala and who references the "great war" that's coming.
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Though the episode perhaps bites off more than it can chew — there's also a subplot about a Federation peace conference — that makes it a good example of the breadth TOS has to offer.
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A predictable death and a resentful teenage daughter (a fine Gideon Adlon) nearly help push the story over the melodramatic edge; and a drug subplot with its easily breached medicine cabinet is distracting.
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Brown Findlay and Skinner are both fantastic actors for their parts, but they get lost in a repetitive subplot that sees Charlotte getting drunk and bored while her clingy master screams about fidelity.
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Another interesting subplot could be tension between Ted Cruz and Ben Carson, the latter of whom is upset with what he sees as underhanded tactics by the Texas senator during the Iowa caucus.
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Yet A Bronx Tale is a perfectly enjoyable, charm-infused pop musical that strives to encircle its hefty political subplot in good humor and a steady stream of happy people singing and dancing.
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It even slipped in the suggestion that Clark and Darden were romantically involved — because what's a TV show without a romantic subplot, whether it's an FX drama or a nationally televised murder trial?
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Amid all the paranoia about Serbian Knights, Serbian zombie experiments, and ecoterrorism accusations, Santa Clarita season 3 had one especially emotional subplot: Whether Joel wants to be with Sheila forever as a fellow zombie.
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For instance, the supernatural plot of the first episode seems to bleed into the next one, as it features a subplot about a secret cabal trying to brew an immortality serum from scorpion venom.
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A measure of redemption — or at least a twinkle of mischief, innocence and decency — arrives via a subplot concerning a young woman in the building, and her friend, who works in a convenience store.
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" At ScreenRant, Matthew Erao describes the whole subplot as "roundabout" and "moot," and complains that an action setpiece where Finn and Rose ride around on the city's prized racing animals, the fathiers, "leads nowhere.
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That is not quite a smoking gun for those pushing the "Putin did the emails" theory, but it's still unsettling and adds another unprecedented subplot to an election that was already overstuffed with them.
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Outside of aged monk Aemon, this has only meant Daenerys since the first season, but the princess's rise to power and eventual return to Westeros has been the saga's premier subplot from the beginning.
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Even Royal Wedding's political subplot, which threatens to spoil the whole thing, manages to stay safely on the side of naive goodwill, with one royal bad egg responsible for everything that's awry in Aldovia.
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Not all the wrinkles work, including a subplot involving a young nephew (Nicholas Braun) who is essentially cast in the role of minnow among the sharks, trying to claim a piece of his birthright.
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Yael makes her break for a subplot, getting Jeremy to spill everything on tape; Rachel stares blankly at the ceiling of her hospital room; Darius and Romeo fight for their lives in Schrödinger's hospital.
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But to have Darius bring up legitimate concerns and then to have all racial tension removed from the narrative just strengthens the feeling that this season considers race a subplot, not an overarching theme.
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And though he brims with ideas—I once witnessed him unfurling a truly nutty subplot, for "The Politician," involving Mossad agents—writing is not his existential passion, as it is for some TV creators.
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Gyllenhaal and Ashton's characters have a romantic subplot which keeps skipping moments, with the part where he breaks up with his current partner completely omitted and not clarified until some time after the fact.
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While this subplot provides the book with these particular nuances, its inclusion is not only rather shocking, darker even than Will's attempted suicide or his eventual plan to end his life, but totally unnecessary.
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Edward J. Snowden's name is dropped a few times, and there is a subplot about a young tech mogul named Aaron Kalloor (Riz Ahmed), who is trying to extricate his company from Dewey's pocket.
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The movie devotes a large amount of time to small cuts at these bigger themes, all wrapped around a subplot where the Turtles have the option to "reverse" their mutation and take human form.
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The swap led to a frosty atmosphere at the Prague club where they both trained, but the players were able to keep that subplot on the sidelines in their first encounter since the changes.
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It's the specific details, though, like a scene that'll make you conscious of how often you touch your face, or a subplot about "fake news" years before we had the term, that truly resonate.
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Tallahassee, meanwhile, is starting to feel the call of the road, which he tries to justify with some far-fetched subplot about his Native American ancestry that the movie only kind of pulls off.
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The creators are "particularly excited to see how viewers respond to the Salim story," Mr. Fuller said, a subplot about a gay Muslim man that includes an explicit, transmogrifying sex scene with a genie.
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The submission of the Mueller report won't be the only investigative subplot unfolding in Washington while Trump is on the other side of the globe working to convince Kim to abandon his nuclear weapons.
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But a subplot in the new season's fifth episode begins more like a horror story — one we've seen described repeatedly over the past year, in the revelations about Harvey Weinstein and other Hollywood predators.
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A subplot in the early episodes (three of 10 were available) even involves a writer trailing the show's main character, the trader Maurice "Mo" Monroe (Cheadle), to gather material for an Oliver Stone film.
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But in the mixed-up world of Trump-era Washington, a dinner with colleagues at Central Michel Richard isn't just a dinner with colleagues — it's another subplot in the intrigue of Donald Trump scandal.
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As an advice columnist and a novelist whose new book for kids has a subplot about a girl bullied because of weight, I believe that it's essential for tweens and teens to learn about nutrition.
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That's because of Cy's campaign to end violence against women within the military, a vastly worthy subplot that unfortunately stands apart from the rest of the play like a polka-dot elephant planted center stage.
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To Ford's credit, the fictional subplot -- set in a dusty and desolate part of Texas -- feels the most vibrant and compelling, causing one to forget that this is a work of fiction within a movie.
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Dustin gets a mom and a cat, and his very own story arc involving a mysterious creature and, eventually, Steve; Lucas gets a (delightful) little sister and a romantic subplot with a new character, Max.
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While this subplot plays to one of the show's main themes, that even good intentions can have terrible unintended consequences, its hinted menace doesn't solidify enough in the first season to feel worth the time.
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This 'villain' subplot, albeit funny and entertaining, didn't feel like it belonged to the rest of the story, which ended up not being on heroes or their nemesis, but rather on childhood, and its dreams.
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Putting aside the unlikely situation in which the Judith Grimes subplot sticks around, the show is going to have to do a lot of narrative somersaulting to get around Jadis' disappearance and Rick's missing body.
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Some on Reddit are already claiming the "Camp Sight" teaser is just a bit of misdirection, while others think this may be Murphy teasing that he's going to flesh out the alien subplot from Asylum.
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Joyce is freaked out by the possibility that Will hasn't recovered from his time in the Upside Down, a subplot that gives you flashbacks to the last fifty times Winona Ryder looked really really worried.
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In the middle of a story about the Democratic Party's health care strategy published on Sunday, Politico reported on a rather embarrassing subplot involving Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi.
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Not only does this scene further the Tony / Pepper romantic subplot, it becomes extremely relevant later on when Tony's new arc reactor is taken from him, forcing him to put the older model back in.
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We are treated to Jacob's fantasies at greater length, though his sexuality boils down to a penis fixation so strong that a minor subplot of the novel sees him wondering if Steven Spielberg is uncircumcised.
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Factor into the equation that a duel between goaltenders Carey Price and Henrik Lundqvist is the main subplot and it adds up to an intriguing first-round series, which gets underway Wednesday night in Montreal.
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The video's leading subplot is based on the story of photographer Jeff Widener, who is famous for taking the "Tank Man" photo from the sixth-floor balcony of the Beijing Hotel next to Tiananmen Square.
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While the movie's main plot line about saving Pop from being evicted from his soda shop is pretty dull, one minor subplot did stand out for me, concerning Archie's relationship to Veronica's father, Mr. Lodge.
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Besides "Fear the Walking Dead" — which will have a crossover subplot with the original show, Mr. Kirkman announced at New York Comic-Con — there are the highly rated postshow "Talking Dead," video games and conventions.
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Opinion Columnist One minor sordid subplot of the Trump era has been the ugly custody battle between Jason Miller, senior communications adviser on Donald Trump's 2016 campaign, and A.J. Delgado, a former Trump campaign surrogate.
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And yet he has been driven to this despair not by any awareness of his own faults, but by the machinations of a subplot that has encapsulated a lot of this season's problems with race.
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The single most wrenching subplot involves a 10-year-old Guatemalan boy whose life is all but over, thanks to a system of graft that makes prostitutes out of women and thugs out of men.
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Up in the woods, Peter and Greta do the counterfeit couple thing, and there's a subplot with her boyfriend Bernie and an escaped murderer from a nearby prison... Yadda, yadda, yadda, we want more Scully.
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The subplot about Calogero's daring romance with an African-American girl, Jane (Coco Jones), which helps stir up violent conflict in the neighborhood, inevitably calls to mind "West Side Story," adding to the sense of familiarity.
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A related subplot is the fact that Ted Cruz, the victor in the Iowa caucuses, won a respectable third place, despite investing little in a state that is less friendly to his brand of hardline politics.
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But a subplot about a grown woman who enjoys being spoken to by her significant other in a manner and tone one might use when communicating with a small, fluffy four-legged creature left me annoyed.
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Oh, and there's some kind of subplot featuring Jon Voight pushing his senator kid to power with his own newspaper coverage, but it's about as much of an afterthought as this sentence, so we'll move along.
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It's a fairly minor subplot: the girls tell Miranda the guy who hasn't called her is probably just intimidated by her; Carrie's new boyfriend, Berger, says, "He's just not that into you," and Miranda is empowered.
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But in Westworld's homage to the many-headed Western tradition, the other worlds are only fodder for a subplot — bonus story spaces to make sure the viewer does not get too bored with the main park.
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That subplot apparently continues in the second half of the season, and with the recent government shutdown over border wall funding still in recent memory, it's no less relevant now than it was two years ago.
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Also generating that little inkling of "why is this in here again?" is Quinn's romantic subplot with Matt (Jordan Calloway), a strapping stranger who, like her, has also been marked for death by the Countdown app.
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Speaking of Gretchen, her subplot, wherein Ben Folds moves to L.A. and engages with her services, might seem like a throw-away, but it actually displays her mastery as a publicist and ability to read people.
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But it also recalls a subplot to the race: Paul Manafort, Mr. Trump's campaign chairman, previously advised pro-Russian politicians in Ukraine and other parts of Eastern Europe, including former President Viktor F. Yanukovych of Ukraine.
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The script is by Taylor Sheridan, who wrote the original "Sicario" (2015), and though both tales abound in explosions, he likes nothing better than to light the fuse of a subplot and have it slowly burn.
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Ian's marriage discontent is a non-starter of a subplot, and so is his nascent romance with human wallpaper Claire Maddox (Kelly Macdonald), whose primary function in the film is to be less offensive than Eleanor.
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Outtakes: • A note on style: David Simon shows, like many big ensemble projects, have to do a lot of cutting between one story line and another, so no subplot or characters wilts from lack of attention.
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There's a subplot with a "friendly" cop that goes exactly where it obviously will, and the book's depiction of "Antifa"-type protesters is almost risible, blaming them for the violence the police inflict on peaceful protesters.
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Mr. Bush and Dr. Jackson are both seeking to appear on the ballot next November with Mr. Trump, whose rift with the Bushes could create an intriguing subplot in 2020 for Mr. Bush, a nonprofit executive.
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Her simmering jealousy of her sister, aggravated when she develops a crush on Frank only to find him in Rachel's bed, provides a minor subplot — and gives Ms. Cox a break from her heavy vocal chores.
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Not every exploration pays off, especially on the human side, like a subplot about "synthies" — teenagers who "identify" as robots — which falls flat even if you don't read it as a facile analogy for transgender issues.
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The most recent season of the critically acclaimed animated series "BoJack Horseman" featured a subplot affirming abortion, and Brit Marling's new science fiction series, "The OA," turns into a bizarre commentary on guns and school shootings.
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There are brief bits about the awfulness of YouTube commenters and the spreading of bad news on Reddit, as well as a subplot in which the mayor's office falsely declares them to be liars and imposters.
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Even the venerable Mr. Cooper can't make Marrow coherent in his fecklessness, and a subplot in which a retired teacher returns to the school to lead a seminar in "thinking" has the subtlety of a shoehorn.
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But the undercurrent of self-awareness helps soften the discomfort, and the episode takes a fairly light look at some serious issues with the clever, outrageous subplot involving Nanette threatening revenge porn against her real-world self.
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It's a chilling subplot in this 1995 movie that saw clearly how ostensibly meritocratic institutions respond when white male-led, good old boy hierarchies face real pushback and challenge from the minority professionals rising through their ranks.
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But when Diaz found out that Anik had picked him—the short-notice replacement and betting underdog—to lose, he grew angry: He spurned Anik's social media apology, and that aggravation became another subplot to UFC 196.
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The plot additions that Handler has added to spice up the spy subplot become a bit clearer in the Netflix series' two-part season one finale — a pair of episodes that cover book four, The Miserable Mill.
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This 1990 coming-of-age dramedy has an awkward subplot involving a mother and a daughter fooling around with the same man, but if you can get past that cringey cliché, there's plenty to love about Mermaids.
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The subways are also a key element in the subplot that many observers see undergirding the governor's current fury with City Hall: the emergent candidacy of the actress Cynthia Nixon as a primary challenger to Mr. Cuomo.
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A fifth friend played by Brett Gray, whose slightly abrasive style calls to mind Kevin Hart or (very distantly) a young Eddie Murphy, provides the pure comic relief in a subplot about an urban buried-treasure legend.
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Attack of the Clones had a lot going for it: It showed us the beginning of Anakin's downfall, it was a chance to finally see the Clone Wars, it even had a Boba Fett origin story subplot.
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A lot of characters crop up in "Righteous"; one reason is that the trail Marcus left was a complicated one, but another is that Ide can't seem to resist a good subplot when he thinks of one.
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The run of Rolex Series events leading up to the British Open represents an opportunity to regroup, and with the Ryder Cup subplot bolstering the field at the Open de France, to do so among elite competition.
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I was about to discover that it contains an extended subplot about a woman, Lucy Mancini, whose sex organs are so roomy that I feared someone would fall into them, as if they were an immense cannoli.
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There are false leads and close calls, but early episodes drag with rehashed Cesar/Monse drama, a bloated subplot about Cesar's father, and a lot of people talking about Cuchillos' threat but little evidence of its gravity.
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The firestorm over Kobe's legacy spawned a disturbing subplot when a Washington Post reporter simply tweeted a link to a story about the alleged rape, triggering a fusillade of angry responses, some of which she then exposed.
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And because this particular example is trying to do so much at once, giving every single character a disconnected subplot of their own, it doesn't quite have time to pay off the tensions its songs set up.
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In a separate subplot drawn from real-life controversy, a friend of Chris's tries to gain access to her dead daughter's social media account (a clear Facebook stand-in), only to be stonewalled by the corporation's policies.
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This is a subplot meant to teach us the value of space, of separating oneself from trauma before returning to embrace its legacy, but like the rest of the film's redundant plot, it's robbed of the necessary care.
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There's a strong subplot about Dud's twin sister, Liz (Sonya Cassidy), who's working at a Hooters-ish sports bar named Shamroxx, because she's so burdened down with debt passed down to her by her and Dud's deceased father.
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"We gave the script to Sony, and they didn't get the story-within-the-story subplot (featuring George Wendt and Mark McKinney as two Hollywood executives pitching absurd plot ideas for a Spice Girls feature film)," Kim remembers.
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An important subplot of the 2016 campaign was a decision CNN made early on to sideline its existing stable of conservative commentators and hire a new roster of Donald Trump loyalists, as a counterweight to his liberal critics.
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It's been unclear how much of the season will focus on the election, but we do have one more piece of the pie thanks to Entertainment Weekly, who discovered another minor (or major) subplot by monitoring set photos.
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And it apparently works, because he (and his niece, from the "We Need Something for QPA to Do This Week" subplot) gets on a plane to return to Bashran, only to have it blow up on the tarmac.
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A subplot involving his unrequited attraction to a young man meanders along before petering out, and a great deal of emphasis is given to Johnny's vegetarianism, which causes him more trouble among his peers than does his sexuality.
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Radar research ended last year, but the team has spent recent months examining a subplot of sorts: a longstanding rumor that Shakespeare's skull is actually sitting in a crypt in a church in the nearby village of Beoley.
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And the twins will give the book a nice big subplot when one turns out to be a lesbian and they have to adjust to this and God knows they have to hide it from the timid Melody.
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In Atwood's novel, there's a sad little subplot in which Offred, desperate for moisturizer for her parched skin, steals pats of butter from the kitchen to use on her hands and finds herself smelling faintly of vegetable oil.
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In season three, the show examines the idea that chaos too often leads to the same people attaining even more power, up to and including a background subplot about colonialism that plays out almost entirely on TV screens.
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"Hobbs & Shaw" also employs a common subplot to these scenarios -- namely, the complicating factor of having one guy harbor an obvious attraction to the other's sister, in this case, an equally adept MI6 agent played by Vanessa Kirby.
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Eli, whose progression toward civility drives the narrative — there is a tiny but beautifully rendered subplot of his discovering how to brush his teeth — in turn must ultimately seek to murder the Commodore to recalibrate the fraternal order.
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There are friends who share everything, like Otis and Eric, friends who comfort each other without explanation, like Ola and Adam, friends or at least allies united by shared trauma in one bittersweet subplot with the female cast.
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But, the most frustrating and misleading line of critique has centered on the apparent subplot of the profile: Rhodes' role in securing a sufficient base of support for the Iran nuclear deal in Congress to prevent its rejection.
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But the show's cocreators, Joe Egender and Leeor Kaufman, say DIY Crispr is just one subplot in the larger narrative about what happens when nature can be minutely controlled, when humans might even preside over their own evolution.
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What Joe Biden Actually Did in Ukraine The aims and the aftermath of a legacy project that underscores Mr. Biden's years of diplomacy — but has been swallowed by the subplot of his son and a Ukrainian gas company.
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The Man in the High Castle A story imagining what it would be like if Nazis took over the world would actually be a lot more shocking if neo-Nazis weren't a pertinent subplot in this year's election.
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A romance subplot — the hot new boy who works with Willowdean at the local diner seems to like her, but she can't really believe someone like him would want to be with her — exposes some of her insecurities.
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In theory, it should be just like that Hillary Swank letters-from-beyond-the-grave Hollywood blubfest P. S. I Love You—a film whose shoe-designing subplot was, like the rest of the whole sorry debacle, cobblers.
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Oh no, there's an entire subplot in season 1 about Huck torturing former B613 colleague, current killer for hire and future Quinn Perkins (Katie Lowes) life partner Charlie (George Newbern) for the location of Amanda Tanner's (Liza Weil) body.
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An early-season subplot where the Runaways' genius leader, Alex Wilder (Rhenzy Feliz), hangs out with his father's rival in Compton is especially agonizing, since it stunts the group dynamic that really should be the heart of the show.
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Amid the sprawling scandal over Russian interference with the 22016 election, there's long been an odd subplot over Russian ties to, of all groups, the National Rifle Association — ties that, according to McClatchy, have been investigated by the FBI.
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For the first time in his presidency, he was regularly accompanied by the first lady, who consulted with the US State Department before packing her wardrobe and emerged as the unlikely subplot of Trump's debut on the world stage.
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In Episode 3 this season, Titus does a geisha bit that becomes a source of protest and outrage Was that explicitly a response to some of the criticism the show has received for things like the Native American subplot?
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The thriller plot does its job by making the slow-burn conflicts of their marriage flare up dramatically — it throws oil on the fire — even if Rogers herself seems less interested in the subplot than in the main story.
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Back before the Olympic tournament started, when American victory was a little more presumptive, the most interesting subplot centered on how Durant would look next to his new teammates with the Golden State Warriors, Klay Thompson and Draymond Green.
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Someone who also, I might add, enjoys queer theory, 18th-century frame narratives, prison abolition literature, Marxist historical readings, a surprisingly lengthy subplot involving a copy of Spinoza's "Ethics" and a running footnote hall of mirrors to rival Borges.
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At least the clue lent itself to expecting the JR in BOWSER JR, and at least the character in question is a major one (described as the "deuteragonist" of a Super Mario subplot called "Super Mario Logan," I gather).
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DES MOINES — Joe Biden's presidential campaign has advised supporters to shoot down questions about his son Hunter Biden, whose business dealings overseas have become a distracting subplot of Donald Trump's impeachment trial and the former vice president's presidential bid.
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McCain family drama From CNN chief national correspondent John King: The McCain family had interesting week, to put it mildly, and finds itself now as part of an interesting subplot of the unfolding impeachment inquiry playing out in Washington.
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This has been the leakiest subplot of the Mueller investigation to date — because many witnesses who have gone been in to be questioned about Stone have gone right out and told reporters what the special counsel's team asked them.
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I was generally fine learning more about them; while Alex's parents (Ryan Sands and Angel Parker) got lost in an eyebrow-raising dud of a gang subplot, I would happily watch an entire show about Nico and Gert's conflicted parents.
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But speaking of the pope's ravings, this is the episode that features the often-mentioned subplot of the pope flying a nun's deceased sister's body to the Vatican for burial and then berating the nun for crying over the body.
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And the script tries hard to bring some circa-2017 wokeness to its 1963 setting (the aforementioned lady empowerment, an interracial-love subplot so abbreviated it could fit in a tweet), though what they mostly succeed in is thudding symbolism.
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It's a dark twist on a refrain common in today's headlines, but until the creep's utility to the story gets activated deep in the third act, he's restrained to a subplot jutting out awkwardly from the rest of the film.
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Marilyn subplot alert: She lost her maid, and Broadway star Megan Hilty (although, if you're recognizing her from Broadway, you probably saw her in Smash, too) pops by for a guest role as a patient with OCD who cleans everything.
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Watson has us all excited to see how she transformed Belle into a feminist version of the iconic princess, and the star even caused some buzz when she mentioned that an "incredibly subtle" gay moment subplot happens in the film.
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So much was going on with Orange's hefty, often confusing riot arc that it's easy to forget there was an entire subplot about Gloria's teen son Benny Mendoza (Tyler Alvarez, aka Peter Maldonado in American Vandal) and his dire hospital visit.
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While Eastwood isn't quite able to stir decency into rousing drama—a subplot about an NTSA investigator who is skeptical of Sully's need to land in the Hudson feels unnecessary—he keeps the story moving and he keeps it short.
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Quinn's emotional fate came after an extended subplot dealing with the stroke he suffered in staving off a terror threat, and while a sympathetic figure, that felt more like a distraction from the main themes than an addition to it.
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In Freedom, the only major contemporary American novel to feature a significant cat-killing subplot, Walter Berglund—aggrieved middle-aged man and likely Franzen stand-in—kills Bobby, a kindly cat whose only crime is his love for the great outdoors.
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DARREN: If we talk too much about Young Griff then I'll wind up talking about my poor beloved Quentyn Martell, fortune's fool, the pointless prince, a whole subplot about the dangers of believing that the world has room for destiny.
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The Netflix series has one big surprise in store for those who've read the books: a new subplot that ultimately makes the story of the Baudelaires, and the viewer's experience watching it, seem more dismal, miserable, and unfortunate than ever.
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Sudden swerves into melodrama, like a recent subplot about a nun's beating at the hands of a rogue Russian sailor, are short-lived; the quotidian challenges of the poor and pregnant are enough to guarantee a swift return to narrative equilibrium.
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That includes Diane Lane as Felt's wife, who has made sacrifices on the altar of his career, and a subplot involving their grown daughter, a one-time honor student who, like many during that era, has dropped out and disappeared.
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Its persistence is emphasized by a subplot that takes place 85 years after the war in a Mississippi courtroom, where Davis Knight (Brian Lee Franklin), a descendant of Newton's, is on trial for breaking the state's law against interracial marriage.
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The resulting story sprawls at times, diverted by an unnecessary subplot about a nudist family visiting the island, but when Ragnar turns from an eccentric patriarch into a proper villain, the book hits its stride, with intergenerational conflict and anger spiking.
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The subplot in all of it is that head coach Bob Bradley's expansion LAFC side looks a lot like the Bradley-coached Chicago Fire expansion team in 1998 that set the league on its ear with an MLS Cup title.
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When it's not, it's hard to resist sneaking a peek at the clock and wondering if we really needed a 10-minute sojourn to Paris to resolve a subplot that the film never seemed all that invested in to begin with.
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As the official responsible for the tour, I was painfully conscious of the subplot of Palace politics which would determine its perceived success or failure quite as much as anything that happened in front of the adoring crowds in Paris.
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His future with the Raptors has been a never-ending subplot since he joined Canada's only NBA team and he was asked about it moments after being presented with the NBA Finals Most Valuable Player award on Thursday in Oakland, California.
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It was an intriguing subplot this year when Mr. Ailes emerged as the only major television executive who was willing to take on Mr. Trump directly, in defense of Megyn Kelly, whom Mr. Trump repeatedly attacked, often in misogynistic terms.
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The show's inept spin on the Dorne subplot turned up in the season six premiere, mostly so it could be wrapped up, and Benioff and Weiss are either writing out or bringing together as many characters as they possibly can.
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"The Hobbit, the Sofa, and Digger Stiles" (season 22.0, episode 213) Digger is one of Lorelai's most-hated boyfriends, mostly because he appears in season four, right when the Luke/Lorelai subplot is clearly building toward some kind of resolution.
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Other than a subplot about Syrian refugees whose encampment on the Mykonos beach threatens to mar Richard's party, the movie feels as if it could have been made anytime in the past 30 years — and would still have been no funnier.
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But it's undermined by a story that feels like it's checking off boxes — an interracial-romance subplot, a police chokehold case, a White Lives Matter protest — as well as stilted, didactic dialogue and a stiff central performance by Mr. Noszka.
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A subplot about the emergence of Crawford's brother, Hal (Raymond J. Barry, in a retread of his role on "Justified"), who has threatened to leak a "blue" film that Crawford allegedly did back in the 20s, is tacked onto the episode.
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Their battle to impress captain Davis Love, who will name his final wild card selection on Sunday night, will provide an intriguing subplot to the event, with Bubba Watson, Justin Thomas and Daniel Berger among those on the short list.
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So while it's mildly amusing that a subplot involves the anything-for-a-buck Bluth family borrowing Chinese money to try building a wall, the jokes are chasing a news cycle that frequently feels as if it has already lapped them.
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Vigalondo builds a whole subplot out of the ways people react to giant monsters in their midst, with Internet memes and viral videos and livestreaming cameras, and inevitably by choosing to identify in specific, instantly recognizable ways with something they don't understand.
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The contrast between the broken-down city and its human inhabitants may mirror one Ghost in the Shell subplot: the protagonist, the Major, questions whether she's human, given that all her body is artificial except her brain, and by extension her soul.
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What you need this Christmas is a horror movie, a slasher film that starts out with a series of creepy-as-hell phone calls, ratchets up the tension, never reveals who the killer is, and includes an in-your-face pro-choice subplot.
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A subplot with Lockwood's granddaughter is bafflingly pointless, until it becomes clear that the character exists only to manufacture some third-act jeopardy, and to make a ham-fisted point about genetically engineered dinosaurs that will likely leave audience members shaking their heads.
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To prove the point, the episode includes a cameo from Scottish stereotype Groundskeeper Willie, and a subplot about Bart getting ideas to deal with Homer by reading Sun Tzu's Art of War, narrated by Silicon Valley's Jimmy O. Yang in a heavy accent.
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Caan is an awfully good actor, but he isn't given much to work with, here, besides a subplot where his daughter (Joey Lauren Adams) only exists to disappoint him, and some overdetermined speeches addressing the difference between being hurt and being injured.
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A rock 'n' roll subplot lightens the mood a bit, showing what can happen when a rebellious Western subculture meets a repressive post-Mao society—the birth of a colorful underground music scene complete with Beatles cover bands stalked by government censors.
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His search for his parents, presumed dead at the end of the first film, ignites the third subplot in which his best friend, Alice, equipped with a whirly gyroscopic time machine called a Chronosphere, tries to alter the past to change the future.
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The addition of the Sarabi/Scar subplot not only makes logical sense (of course Scar would want to find a queen of his own) but also may have helped the Mouse House give a much-needed update to Scar 25 years later.
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One subplot draws a parallel with the real-life case of a convicted drug lord who named the SAD deputy chief's brother-in-law as his accomplice (the brother-in-law, a state minister, says the accusations are baseless and politically motivated).
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A marvelous subplot revolves around Florence's Aunt Nollie, once a best-selling novelist, who returns from voluntary exile in France bearing carton upon carton of her own books and manuscripts, which she insists on holding on to for reasons that become brilliantly clear.
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A recurring subplot is Manigault Newman's enmity toward chief of staff John Kelly, who she accuses of "locking" her in the basement Situation Room in order to fire her on dubious grounds (she was accused of misusing the White House car service).
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This is Victor Oladipo's every day life now, and how he adjusts and readjusts to it over the next few months is an increasingly important subplot for an Indiana Pacers team that's already good enough to enter the trade deadline as a buyer.
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Instead, the show's attempts to engage with race—both on America's television sets and in America's structural racism—came across as half-hearted and, in the case of a subplot involving police brutality against men of color, tone-deaf and ill-advised.
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Shapiro acknowledged in a recent interview that the police brutality subplot "[might not have been] our story to tell," and the refreshingly candid admission scratched at the surface of UnREAL's larger issue as it stands: The show's attempting to tell too many stories.
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In its way, the DayZ subplot is also emblematic of what's bothering about this second season of Occupied: It's an obvious contrivance that exists to serve a purpose that's external to the show's narrative, which is then extensively adjusted to accommodate it.
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Layering a damp-squib thriller subplot beneath what appears to be an ad campaign for the one-percent lifestyle, the returning director and screenwriter (James Foley and Niall Leonard) test the newly married couple with an inconvenient pregnancy and an unconvincing car chase.
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With a Big Four so talented that the team is considered indomitable, the most interesting subplot this season may be seeing if Coach Steve Kerr develops some of his younger players to fill in the gaps as his roster begins to age.
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We get transcripts from a meeting of the school's board of trustees, and chapters from the perspective of the gruff cat-loving detective assigned to the case, and a subplot about a missing autistic boy that builds to a genuine sense of dread.
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Later, in a slightly hackneyed romantic subplot that's more or less swiped from "West Side Story," Calogero's life is further complicated when he becomes sweet on Jane (the radiant Ariana DeBose), a girl in his high school who happens to be black.
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"Mayans" somewhat balances that with disarming humor -- such as the amusing sight of macho club members trafficking in frilly party dresses as contraband -- and incorporates an ambitious subplot that deals with border politics, including elements working against corruption in the Mexican government.
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In addition to jumping on the anti-bullying bandwagon that is so popular on television and in film at the moment, the movie tries for a second bit of topicality by including a subplot pegged to the high cost of health care.
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Yet there's also a subplot involving Stephen's friend Charles (Stephen Campbell Moore), who has experienced a breakdown causing him to regress into a childlike state, a thread that can't adequately be fleshed out or done proper justice within this 90-minute format.
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There are some classic installments, particularly an ingenious silent episode set at an underwater film festival, a riff on "Lost in Translation," with sardines that cram into buses and a Chaplinesque subplot about BoJack acting as a midwife to a male seahorse.
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Look, by now we all know that Jorja's natural-born state is balladry so this is either some highly emotional moment or one of those times when an action film tries to soften itself long enough for a romantic subplot to develop.
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Michael Cohen's testimony before the House Oversight Committee has revived the Stormy Daniels subplot, with the reminder that Cohen paid the porn actress $130,000 in hush money on behalf of Trump to cover up an alleged affair ahead of the 2016 election.
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But in a quiet subplot — so quiet you might miss it, if you don't catch a pointed but apparently throwaway line — our white main characters get away with a lot because they don't raise police suspicions, while black characters are treated entirely differently.
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The film hadn't tested well with audiences — at one screening of a rough cut, 39 percent of viewers didn't even realize it had an abortion subplot — and the distributors planned to let it run for a weekend, then release it to home video.
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Pose elaborates on those subtle distinctions with a subplot involving Stan (Evan Peters), a rising star in the Trump organization with an obnoxious boss (James Van Der Beek), a pretty wife (Kate Mara), and a secret relationship with Angel (Indya Moore), a trans woman.
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At times the film feels like the action movie equivalent of Matt McGorry, hitting every base to score points with young audiences: Kimberly the Pink Ranger's subplot revolves around cyberbullying, and Billy the Blue Ranger has been rebooted as a black teen with autism.
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Based on a book by Petra Hammesfahr, not everything about "The Sinner" works, from the cryptic title to Ambrose's subplot -- the "cop plagued by personal demons" riff being one of those clichés that adds almost nothing to the proceedings, other than dragging them out.
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Emily Yoshida, Vulture: It's true that Power Rangers, which is rated PG-13, flirts with edgy material; there's a leaked-nudes subplot, and our teenage heroes utter the word "shit" a couple times, though practically sotto voce, as if they're afraid lurking parents might hear.
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The art of university commitment to its women's teams and companion program building is the subplot to the overriding theme of the Connecticut dynasty's being heavily favored to march on with three stars — Stewart being the brightest, with Moriah Jefferson and Morgan Tuck also shining.
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It may well be that the feuds and the potshots aren't so much a by-product as an integral part of the entertainment, a subplot to amplify and mirror the foreground arguments over the actual games and the people who play and rule them.
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Politico's Eliana Johnson also notes that Tillerson keeps a much lower profile than many who have served as America's top diplomat, and that talk of Haley eventually stepping into that role is a big subplot as the President and his team attend their first UNGA.
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In fact, it's nearly an exact retread of a Southland Tales subplot, in which a Marxist organization tries to blackmail the government into shutting down a surveillance program with a stolen sex tape featuring a presidential candidate's son-in-law and a porn star.
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From the unsympathetic vigilante Aidan Pearce and his terrible trench coat to the soaking sheets of Chicago rain (to say nothing about the game's treatment of Chicago itself) and the human trafficking subplot of the story, it didn't have a lot of happiness to it.
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The one hint that the author might be up to something more original was a subplot involving an exotic dancer named Rachel K (no coincidence, surely), who turns out, like her novelist creator, to be both an illusionist and an observer who misses nothing.
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But her 2008 campaign was all of these things, and her success in reinventing herself as the leader of a "no drama" operation in the mold of Barack Obama's campaign style is a genuinely surprising subplot to a campaign that's been full of surprises.
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An intriguing subplot to this is that the conservative website Breitbart, whose relationship to the Trump campaign has already been the source of a lot of drama (see Tara Golshan's Breitbart explainer), seemed to hint at a version of this story back in February.
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PYEONGCHANG, South Korea — The showdown between Lindsey Vonn and her heir apparent, Mikaela Shiffrin, has been a dominant subplot throughout the Pyeongchang Olympics, and it was in the air again on the final run of the last individual Alpine race of the 2018 Winter Games.
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In Doha, Qatar, the safety of marathoners running in the heat (even at midnight) was a subplot to a broader geopolitical question over how and why Doha held the world track and field championships, and how and why it was awarded the 2022 World Cup.
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A subplot follows the romantic misadventures of a history professor (Fabrice Luchini) who becomes so besotted with a beautiful student (Mélanie Laurent) that he sends her anonymous text messages, some in cyberspeak ("I'm 2 hot 4 U") and others quoting the love poetry of Baudelaire.
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As of this week, that subplot is complete: On Monday, Mr. Strzok was fired from the F.B.I. Mr. Strzok helped lead the investigation into Hillary Clinton's private email server and played a role in the probe into ties between the Trump campaign and Russian intelligence.
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The New York Knicks and Brooklyn Nets are thought to be at the front of the line, but shuffling salaries to accommodate Durant know brings a staggering medical subplot if the Golden State Warriors' hunch of a ruptured right Achilles checks out via MRI exam on Tuesday.
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EW's Chris Nashawaty gave the film a B, calling it a "good-not-great movie" where the parts that worked (like Han's friendship with Chewbacca or Donald Glover's swaggering Lando Calrissian) outshone the parts that didn't (like the romantic subplot between Han and Emilia Clarke's Qi'ra).
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What's more, The Last Jedi also features an entire subplot about the necessity of rebellion and about the massive corporate and commercial forces that work to prop up the status quo, no matter how oppressive it is to average citizens, because that's how the money gets made.
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The direction they choose is a shaggy-dog subplot where Alice expresses dissatisfaction with his band, his record company, and his management, and encourages Clark to follow him around to wild parties and a golf course — where Clark finds himself holding Alice's beer and carrying his snake.
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D'Onofrio, so menacing and tragic in Season 1, was less effective this time around; we'd seen his act, and it hadn't changed.) Ms. Yung admirably served a major subplot involving whether Daredevil-Matt Murdock would go for the bad girl (Elektra) or the good girl (Karen Page).
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The lovable and plucky Veronica (Kristen Bell) dove into detective work after the murder of her best friend; in an especially timely subplot, her pursuit of justice is also partly driven by her desire to find the man who drugged and raped her at a party.
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Less discussed is the subplot with Emily and Richard's charity auction, but it's extremely fun: Richard forcefully explaining that Emily will be served the first cup of tea if she wants the first cup of tea is one of his sweetest and most romantic moments. 219.
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The legal action also comes with a subplot, pitting the State Democratic Party — which is effectively led by Mr. Cuomo, now in his third term — against the Working Families Party, a progressive-backed group that supported Mr. Cuomo's opponent, Cynthia Nixon, in last year's Democratic primary.
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The story starts to veer off into tangents that are melodramatic (a fairly insipid Romeo and Juliet subplot involving Gigante's daughter), distractingly implausible (an episode built around attempts to fix a Cassius Clay fight) or both (a family member of Johnson's caught up in drugs and prostitution).
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To a certain extent, that's true — there's even a running subplot about a troubled woman who lives next door with a plucky kid Joe becomes protective of, a mirror image of season 1 — but as the twists pile up, the reflection comes across as intentional and effective.
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Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes' script definitely takes some creative liberties: Most notably, the subplot about Becky's aristocratic benefactor and maybe lover Lord Steyne (a brooding Gabriel Byrne) being a collector of her father's paintings, is pure invention, as is the ending, which is sweeter than the original.
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" It's an episode reminiscent of the series's early days, with its uncomplicated A-story, and its subplot about bartenders Mac (McElhenney), Dennis (Glenn Howerton), and Dee (Kaitlin Olson) getting high on gasoline fumes while trying to kill a rat in the bar, a task they'd ordinarily call "Charlie-work.
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Here's what writer and showrunner D.B. Weiss says about this subplot in the post-episode making-of featurette: [Littlefinger is] looking for a way to prevent this sister bond from developing further, because the tighter that bond is, the more definitively he is caught on the outside of it.
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True, there's too much here to conceivably dramatize in full (better to have dispensed entirely with the subplot about a madman who desecrates churches), but the scenes of the detectives working — mostly desultorily — to solve the crimes become heavy-handed as the men repeatedly trade repulsive jokes about women.
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Nunes factor Another subplot of the Russia story also appears to be rebounding to the detriment of the White House -- indications that Trump aides worked closely with the House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes at a time when his committee is investigating alleged Trump team links to Russia.
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If only Michael Haneke, say, had got hold of the screenplay; if only he had shorn it of its folksiness, its relaxing guitar score, and its subplot about Addie's grumpy grandson (Iain Armitage), whom Louis persuades to lay down his iPhone in favor of toy trains and fishing.
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The theory about gamification of the show itself also comes from a subplot on "Part II." One of the characters, played by Zendaya, is discussing a phone game that leads players to a mysterious house connected to OA."At a certain point, the puzzle goes IRL," she says.
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Ms. Macdonald gives a lovely uncertainty to her character's gradual empowerment, but Agnes is so battened down that it's hard to get a lock on her (a trait she shares with Ziggy, whose similar unhappiness and intuitive connection to his mother make for the movie's most touching subplot).
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A subplot involving a courtroom drama over the hermit's attempts to claim squatter's rights over his small stretch of the park (based partly on the experiences of the real-life Hampstead hermit Harry Hallowes) threatens at times to derail the story, as does some additional manufactured romantic conflict.
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There's also a fun Xander/Anya subplot that deals with them struggling to define their relationship outside of sex (they realize they really like each other, aw!), and you get to hear Giles sing, all of which is just barely enough to keep this episode from the bottom slot.
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In one clever subplot, the wannabe-detectives Sam and Peter turn to DeMarcus's texts to try to suss out his guilt or innocence; as they compare his language to that of the Turd Burglar's cryptic messages on social media, the subject turns to the matters of code switching.
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This week's episode doesn't get into the influx of pilgrims much, but it does keep the subplot present in a subtle way by making sure that every scene in town is filled with extras in the background, roaming idly through the streets like tourists at a theme park.
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"While members may be hesitant to theorize about the President's legal troubles to the media, there's growing concern among them that the President and his team aren't taking any of this seriously, as if it's just another subplot brewing in a bad reality TV show," the aide said.
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Set in a high-powered law firm, the new season finds attorney Diane Lockhart (Christine Baranski) again dealing with a woman who claims to have had an affair with President Trump, while another subplot -- which discretely unfolds off screen -- relates to the president's sons, Don Jr. and Eric.
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The interesting thing is that Billy is also in charge of the Twitter-like app, not the Facebook-like one (that one is called Persona and it's got a separate subplot in the episode, dealing with what happens to your account after a person has died and how it's "archived").
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Yet, based on the play of his primary antagonists of late, McIlroy showed up at the Masters this week as something of a subplot, especially compared to last year, when he was seeking to win the title at Augusta National to complete what folks back home have nicknamed the Shamrock Slam.
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Between trips into the forest and swamp in search of the abandoned bridge, the running time is filled out with flashbacks to Hap's and Leonard's childhoods and a subplot about a pair of spree killers, one of whom is a towering disco queen in a white breastplate and ripped spandex.
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But it's complicated a bit by the show's other major subplot — Tara finally coming around to breaking the promise she made to Cyndie in episode six not to reveal the location of Oceanside to her people — or tell them about the full arsenal of weapons the women in Oceanside carry.
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In the season's two-part finale, the clones make their way to prom, and the long-running subplot that sees Principal Scudworth attempting to break away from the Secret Board of Shadowy Figures so he can use the clones for his own devices finally becomes central to the show's narrative.
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Amid the government shutdown and continued brinkmanship between House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and President Donald Trump on funding for a partial border wall with Mexico, "will the State of the Union happen" became a major subplot, only resolved decisively when the shutdown ended on January 2181, after 2000 full days.
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The Shape of Water director Guillermo del Toro once called his Oscar-nominated film "a love letter to love and cinema," but the thing is more like a love letter to sexy-ass amphibians, since the movie has done more to eroticize sea creatures than every Ninja Turtles romantic subplot combined.
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We get a rushed and scruffy subplot about a plan to sabotage the craft, and an expansion of the movie's range—reports from China, Russia, and other interested parties, declarations of war against the aliens (on the strength of one translated word), and Louise single-handedly striving to halt the meltdown.
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And yet that story line may be overtaken by a subplot — the presence of the excommunicated Reggie Bush and the eternally angling Urban Meyer, who in their roles as Fox Sports commentators will loom over the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum like plaintive ghosts of U.S.C. football past and (perhaps) future.
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An intriguing subplot to the 2017 health reform debate is that while it's pretty clear Ryan, Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price, Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney, and other key players understand the gap between reality and their rhetoric, it's not really clear that the president does.
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It's inclusion of queer women characters isn't without complication: the tragic lesbians trope rears its head in the game, for sure—although that, in itself is complicated by a revenge subplot that let me take the only vengeance I think I've ever really felt 100% awesome about in a game.
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A major subplot of the work is my decision to no longer allow my children to play, due to my own personal struggles and the ever-growing understanding of CTE, or chronic traumatic encephalopathy, which is a degenerative brain disease found more commonly in athletes of with a history of repeated brain trauma.
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In addition to the drama, the original opera also features a comedic mistaken identity subplot and a secondary romance, but Lang stripped these from his interpretation because (as he explained in the program notes) he felt they were tonal missteps that distracted from the central story's themes of freedom, power, and punishment.
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The co-adulterer was Joseph (Santiago Cabrera), her married collaborator and the director in the local theater production of Avenue Q. And as we've seen from the first episode of season 2 of Big Little Lies, this is one little subplot that's going to have some serious consequences throughout these next few episodes.
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The crimes committed by our doomed dectet are more violent here than they were in the novel, presumably because its screenwriters don't think modern audiences would be shocked enough otherwise; there's a sexy subplot that isn't canonical, though it does echo what happens in the story's original stage adaptation (also written by Christie).
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At a press conference for the new film in Beverly Hills on Sunday, director Bill Condon addressed the buzz-about decision to include a new subplot for LeFou (Josh Gad) — which includes a crush on his pal Gaston (Fast & Furious star Luke Evans) and a happily ever after moment of his own.
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Starring the exceptionally cast Emma Watson, this 2017 remake attempts to retell that "tale as old as time" with tons of added backstory, new characters, an all-star cast, a sorta-kinda (not really at all) LGBTQ inclusive subplot, and a uniquely rich visual style unlike that of any Disney princess film.
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So when he likens the elegance of "Sweeney Todd" to that of "Guys and Dolls" as examples of how tying together the plot and subplot requires proper planning in Act 1, for instance — "No one can make a move in either story without affecting both stories" — it's good to know both stories.
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The circus of 2017 was a murky collection of hashtag jokes tethered to dopey musical numbers with zero melody and an undercooked space opera subplot, where the ringmaster rides a hunk of fiberglass through a light show in an attempt to rescue the performers, who have been kidnapped by a space witch.
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In the exhibition's understated subplot, the visitor gleans how van Gogh viewed Japan less as a real country than as an ideal for fashioning a new self-image, through which he transmuted nearly every place, object, or person that he rendered during the eventful final years he spent wandering the French countryside.
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Ethical questions aside, "Bewitched" is a marvel of tonal balancing: The Xander A-plot is slapstick and funny with a core of heartbreak, and the subplot of Angel musing on the perfect Valentine's Day gift for Buffy keeps the menace and subtle horror of the season's central plot running through the background.
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In PAST TENSE (Delacorte, $26.993), Lee Child's peripatetic hero wanders with a purpose, all the way to his father's birthplace in Laconia, N.H. Reacher's search for his roots in this sad old mill town ("a horrific tableau of clouds of smoke and raging fires") is surprisingly sentimental, but brace yourself for the subplot.
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And at the end of the black-comedy subplot that saw Dollar Bill nearly poison the food supply in order to get an edge on the agribusiness sector, he actually found himself saying "Sometimes you just gotta take a loss," though the words caught in his throat like so much tainted chicken.
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While we are obviously over the moon to see the cast of Downton Abbey back on our screens, big or small, as they entertain King George V, Queen Mary, and their daughter, Princess Mary, the subplot we are most curious about is the storyline about Princess Mary and her husband, Viscount Lascelles.
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Or, rather, about 15 minutes are devoted to that story, with the other 75 minutes turned over to filler: shots of Mark and Mary Jo eating muffins at the breakfast-table, or a subplot about Mark selling his beloved father's boat that goes absolutely nowhere, or 10-second-long closeups of Mark's eyes.
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Plenty is left on the cutting-room floor: although narrated by her, events are not wholly filtered through Scout's childlike, unreliable perspective; many of the secondary and tertiary Maycomb characters have been lost, including members of the Finch family; there is no jury in the courtroom scenes; the important Boo Radley subplot gets less focus.
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Others see a sexist subplot to the partnership between Republicans and the breakaway Democrats, one that has denied Andrea Stewart-Cousins, leader of the mainstream Senate Democrats, the title of Senate majority leader, and a role in the behind-the-scenes deal making now conducted by the so-called four men in a room.
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Any questions about how far they'd go were answered seconds later, when they cut to shot of them both in bed, where they were rudely awaken by Jesus, which was no big deal because our prayers had already been answered Spare parts The subplot with Daryl trying to get Denise "pop" to surprise Tara with was unnecessary but cute.
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I'll let Dorian Corey take it from here: As with the memorability of a death, the lameness of a subplot, and the fabulousness of an outfit, the harshness of a read will be judged by myself alone, though I will consult with a livetweeting jury to see which insults seem to have found the most purchase.
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His repeated calls for a boxing match with pound-for-pound great Floyd Mayweather were a ridiculous subplot to the year—one that got slightly more credence after McGregor received a boxing license from California in November—but they sent a message to his employers: you need me, McGregor seemed to say, more than I need you.
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Matt Singer, ScreenCrush: Those hoping to see lots of Jared Leto's much-hyped Joker, who's second-billed in the movie's advertising below Will Smith, should adjust their expectations accordingly: His grill and tattoos appear mostly in flashbacks, and then only in a pointless subplot that could have been removed from the movie with zero consequence to the primary story.
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And Russia has been a subplot of the campaign that Tom Clancy and John le Carre together may have been unable to conjure, complete with the apparent Russian hack of one of America's political parties, a threat that Russian hackers may try to tamper with electronic voting machines, and Mr. Putin's unsubtle preference for Mr. Trump over Mrs. Clinton.
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As things grow loopier and more leaden — there's a subplot about Eliot's obsession with volunteer firefighters (long back story) and another about his fascination with a science fiction writer named Kilgore Trout — you may begin to pine for the coherence, emotional nuance and less blunt-edged humor of, um, I don't know, maybe a Disney movie?
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