The film's subplots are like different rocks that you kick
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Downs rattles off a few other subplots they eventually nixed.
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"Barbershop: The Next Cut" is crowded with subplots and characters.
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" He went on, "You watch the plots and subplots develop.
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A few subplots attempt to add minimal drama the film.
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The same thing happens to the characters in both subplots.
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Characters die, subplots change, and all of it is your doing.
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It's one of the most fascinating subplots of the 2018 midterms.
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McBride undercooks a couple of his subplots, especially the druggy ones.
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" Proofs can resemble "narratives, with plots and subplots, twists and resolutions.
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I'm going to throw in subplots about money laundering and neo-Nazis.
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Yet two other key subplots are playing out this weekend as well.
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These subplots make the injustice visceral but don't follow a hagiographic script.
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Stories have plots, subplots, plot twists, complicated characters who do complicated things.
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Here's one of the strangest and dumbest subplots of the Trump administration.
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But from this point the play becomes diffuse, a quilt of underdeveloped subplots.
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Do you think the terrorist subplots in the book have parallels to today?
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Breitbart's brazen shilling for Trump has been one of this election's juicier subplots.
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Whole subplots meander and go nowhere, or they build up to no payoff.
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This has been one of the most persistent subplots of the Russia scandal.
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But it's not enough to tease audiences with unfinished subplots and unanswered questions.
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Adding tertiary love interests and subplots just provided the season with stumbling blocks.
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Any acknowledgment of those subplots, alas, will have to wait for another special.
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One of the film's subplots is the falling out between Harris and Ferguson.
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It also includes inane subplots, fake friars, punster tapsters and a tiresome denouement.
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Oh sure, there are subplots, including one involving Jessica's sister Trish (Rachael Taylor).
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We've got stars, storylines and subplots galore to mentally masticate before Sunday's kickoff.
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Alternatively, certain subplots feel so rushed that they go by too fast to enjoy.
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And yet in an election with many subplots, theirs was among the more arresting.
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That's what makes this movie — despite all its answering machine-based subplots — so timeless.
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Honestly, most romantic subplots from 20th century cinema would make more sense with robots.
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The dialogue is awful, the acting is atrocious, and there are dead-end subplots.
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In addition, there are subplots within subplots, supporting characters with their own supporting characters, Easter eggs butting up against other Easter eggs, and secrets stacked on top of secrets, until the whole precarious pile comes tumbling down in a chaotic third act.
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They're granted far more agency in their romantic subplots, and in the plot in general.
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But like most of the subplots in The Addams Family, Wednesday's storyline unceremoniously peters out.
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It's packed with subplots, self-aware jokes about show business, and surreal visual set pieces.
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But in the end, a lot of these character dynamics and subplots just don't matter.
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Overall, it feels lacking in energy, and many of the subplots have a perfunctory rhythm.
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The Summer Games have enough subplots and storylines to interest even the most casual observer.
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She was a growing character whose backstory was compelling, whose subplots were enjoyable to watch.
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Stuffed with characters, subplots and flashy song-and-dance numbers, the show resembles a musical.
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Even more sympathetic subplots have a tendency to come across like a war movie cliche.
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It has been one of the most peculiar subplots in a campaign full of them.
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But we forgot about a lot of our favorite scenes and subplots starring the duo.
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Longer series have to serve a bigger roster of characters, spinning off subplots for each.
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I like this idea, but it's so mired in other subplots that it's easily lost.
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The action accelerates as slowly as a stair car, accreting new subplots like hop-ons.
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It vacillates between ever-expanding, dense subplots that require a steady hand to pull off.
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Mr. Harrower expands the number of characters, to the extent that subplots form around them.
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Carter Page: One of the oddest subplots of the Russia scandal focuses on businessman Carter Page.
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The series often feels like it's constructed entirely of subplots, and that's rarely a great look.
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Or maybe it's just trying to teach me how little I like endless arrays of subplots.
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But I'd take a good rom-com over the generic romantic subplots in blockbusters any day.
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The show had it all—brooding teens, complex romantic subplots, and obscenely lucrative musical tie-ins.
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Unfortunately, some of my favorite subplots were either aborted or fizzled out with no clear resolution.
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Even if you forgive so many cauterized subplots (goodbye, racism, I guess!), some serious questions remain.
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But the various subplots never really arc, feeling more like stitched-together snippets from '80s sitcoms.
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You can hear the creak as both characters and subplots get jacked up out of proportion.
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Season Two also has one of the most well-researched and heartfelt witch subplots on film.
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There are subplots that might have been excised and twists that are a little too contorted.
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But those good things are mostly stranded in a desert of meaningless subplots and B-stories.
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There are subplots about dating and dances, but they don't feel forced or out of place.
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Spoiler Warning: This article chock full of spoilers about major and minor subplots in Death Stranding.
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But it was one of a couple of subplots this week that didn't really work, storywise.
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Also, there are lengthy subplots about guns and science versus magic and all sorts of pointless conflicts.
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One of the subplots from last year's secretly devastating Spurs team was how deceiving age could be.
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This season, one of the subplots involves them trying to market a sexual aid for older women.
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It's a bloated season, often treading water and creating cumbersome subplots to pad 13 hour-long episodes.
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Each subsequent feature revealed new subplots, connecting a seemingly infinite proliferation of characters through progressively weirder arcs.
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But "Artificial Emotional Intelligence" did take one of this season's simmering subplots to a more pertinent place.
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This time around has been rockier — their moments shoehorned in amid excessive outside subplots — but still salvageable.
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This hodgepodge of subplots and confrontations subtract from the strength of the first part of the movie.
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Thankfully, and despite some stiff conversations and head-scratcher subplots, this week's episode begins to remedy that.
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Eastern, the political stakes and intriguing subplots of the 2020 Democratic primary race came into sharper focus.
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And there are lots of issues elsewhere in the show, among the subplots competing for screen time.
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I'm fascinated by guys who can create entire worlds around their name, with all kinds of subplots.
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"Echo Burning," the first Reacher novel, will anchor Season 1, with other books picked over for subplots.
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But there are some tantalizing subplots that could help direct the remaining acts of this political theater.
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On top of that, Baldur's Gate 3 can have a definite Gothic-pulp sensibility in its subplots.
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It was filmed there, and its urban apartments and diverse subplots were truer to a modern metropolis.
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The series tries to combat that by packaging smaller groups of subplots into different kinds of chapters.
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When you look at the systematic plots and subplots about this show that very much mirrors The Wire.
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I was as much a part of it, and all its subplots, as Michael himself had ever been.
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I was less interested in some of the subplots, and I'll mention the one involving Prashant, Ranjana's son.
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In terms of the game's structure, Origins relays its story and various subplots/diversions using a quest system.
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It's narratively and creatively maximalist, full of subplots, conspiracies, directorial triple back flips and twist upon baffling twist.
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Even the most attentive reader could have trouble keeping track of the report's loose ends and dropped subplots.
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This beloved dramedy, directed by Stephen Frears, tackles homophobia, racism and sociopolitical inequality with one too many subplots.
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Here readers can learn about land use, ecology and plastic; there are also subplots about bullying and consent.
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If you're going the full-season route, do Season 23, which is rich with subplots and personal conflict.
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It seems almost impossible, given how many subplots there are and how many knots he'll have to untangle.
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In their own pivotal subplots, Edgar and Lindsay identify the things that will help them and pursue in earnest.
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And yet this season has dug deep into the books' backstory and subplots to find new things to adapt.
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Eventually, the technology may be used to explore new worlds and subplots that are not included in the movies.
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How are you supposed to wade through all that technobabble, all those pointless secondary-character subplots, without nodding off?
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Even at that, some subplots feel extraneous, and like the first season, the second ends on a dissonant cliffhanger.
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And "The Raid" really drives this point home, by giving us two equally scary subplots juxtaposed against one another.
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One of the oddest subplots of the whole Trump-Russia saga has long been the tale of Carter Page.
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I can't help but see a cautionary tale in the three Axe Capital subplots that round out the episode.
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"Saturday Night Fever" staggers beneath its melodramatic subplots, but thanks to the percolating score the whole movie feels choreographed.
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The increasingly large cast of players arrayed around Ralph and Holly never develop enough to fully sell the subplots.
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Ashfield is perhaps the strangest seat in Britain, with enough characters and subplots to fill a political soap opera.
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"Hard Sun," by contrast, feels like something of an afterthought, a provocative premise that gets bogged down in subplots.
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Many readers have deemed the book unreadable — thanks to Wallace's sprawling sentences, heavy use of footnotes and meandering subplots.
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And this week's episode, with its time-travel shenanigans, rushed subplots and sweeping cliffhanger, was too busy to try.
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There are so many subplots to this bigger picture that don't get spotted unless you have the whole thing.
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We're six seasons in, we're mired in subplots, people are coming back from the dead ... what's a newbie to do?
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Like the show's previous seasons, the second half of season 5 contains too many subplots and running gags to cite.
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They've dropped some seemingly important subplots and characters (like Aegon "Young Griff" Targaryen and Lady Stoneheart) entirely, and condensed others.
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In recent seasons Wife did lose some of the quick, almost dizzying, overlapping volleys of dialogue, performances and intricate subplots.
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More often than not, he's been lost between the 10 different inconsequential subplots spanning the show's three-dozen-person cast.
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And it's sure to include all kinds of incomprehensible CGI mayhem, nonsensical subplots, and gibberish about the alignment of constellations.
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If it hasn't already, Joel Embiid's next contract will soon enter the NBA's ever-expanding list of critical preseason subplots.
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The plot diffuses into several subplots, but so long as we keep our sights on Arkady, everything makes perfect sense.
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This game had all the intangibles and subplots that made it, arguably, the greatest National Championship game of all time.
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The timeline of "The Accountant" is so arbitrary that the subplots seem shuffled like pieces of an unfinished jigsaw puzzle.
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It's one of the more fascinating subplots in a second season that's about to be filled with thousands of them.
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Wolff has long brought a journalist's eye for chronology and quotes together with an author's instinct for subplots and buzz.
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The novel's use of queer characters and subplots reminds us that mere representation is often more troubling than total erasure.
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The nervy visuals also brought to full boil a number of subplots that have been simmering all season or longer.
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So now there are back stories, which means frequent flashbacks, and subplots that are elaborated as separate little morality tales.
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Crazy Ex-Girlfriend always thrived in exploring Rebecca's confusion and messiness, not in wrapping up life's subplots with neat little bows.
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Game of Thrones has so many subplots going on, it can be hard to track of the constant question it poses.
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But like many of Silicon Valley's fast-moving and ever-changing subplots, this one works best as an opportunity for reflection.
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This is one of the most evolutionary subplots in the NBA right now, even if we all saw it coming. 9.
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Yes, they are spectacular enough to keep your eyes glued to the screen, even when attention wanders from the clichéd subplots.
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It's one of the many subplots in the fight over Exxon's climate science, and it will take center stage on Wednesday.
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Behind the scenes, camaraderie is splintered by anxiety, as the performers face various crises — both professional and personal — in eddying subplots.
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But every week, the realities of Eve's life (delivered in the form of meandering subplots) seem to get in the way.
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Add enigmatic sprinters like Usain Bolt and subplots like the rivalry with Justin Gatlin and you have a must-see event.
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It's a smart decision to not drag Pablo's character across multiple episodes, given that there are always more than enough subplots.
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Nor is the script able to comfortably fold its more somber subplots into the running, frantic story of the cooking contest.
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The movie includes subplots about unionization, (literal) debt slavery, viral videos, brutal reality television and the cultural worship of sociopathic entrepreneurs.
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The Daniels storyline has been among the most surprising — and, at times, entertaining — subplots in the legal cloud surrounding President Trump.
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At first, the various subplots move a bit slowly, but Haynes soon finds her rhythm and the pages begin to fly.
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Although many subplots are cheerfully thrown in and explored, Gelman shines brightest when describing the rigid social hierarchy of class parenting.
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Stranger Things is as if E.T. took a left turn into It, with a stop along the way to pick up a bit of the small-town terror of Halloween This has led some critics to complain, justifiably, that the show is quite flabby, with too many subplots and too much variance in quality among those subplots.
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But many subplots of Mr Kushner's kaleidoscopic work, from performative, vulnerable masculinity to conflicts within the progressive movement, are still fresh today.
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That's made for a frustrating season where the big moments have all been forgettable and the subplots have been circuitous and dull.
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Between them, Marriner and Foskett hold the wide and spasmodic subplots together as they absorb and externalise the chaos unfolding around them.
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For a tale with so many twists, characters and competing subplots, it's hard to escape an underlying feeling of sadness, however slight.
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That sounds like a straightforward mission, but the show that resulted has sprouted like a banyan tree, yielding complications and extraneous subplots.
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The story was immense and operatic — "The Godfather" in Ren Faire tunics — but its sundry subplots broke along comfortably familiar narrative formats.
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Though her character never had major storylines, she was sometimes involved in episode subplots, some of which had a light-hearted bent.
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Alongside subplots involving Kate's controlling sister, Angela, and two college friends, the story follows Kate's work tribulations and renewed attempts at dating.
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The narrative of season three is still split between different subplots, but they're all obviously connected to each other from the start.
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In many cases, the corrosive race and class differences that drive the show's subplots fall away as the women unite to improve Litchfield.
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In addition to all the secrets and treasures tucked away, there are entire, completely optional subplots that help color your understanding of Midgard.
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For me, bingeing a show makes it easier to keep track of the subplots, and feel the impact they have on each other.
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But it's always felt like the show was wasting all the fan goodwill and Reedus' clear dedication to the character on shallow subplots.
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A couple of running subplots delve into Altered Carbon's specific vision of the future, and unsurprisingly, they're the best parts of the series.
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While the Hilltop erupts in battle, one of TWD's more insufferable subplots is brought to the forefront when Henry goes looking for revenge.
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How the GOP's first female presidential campaign manager manages Donald Trump There are so many fascinating plots and subplots to this presidential campaign.
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But even with the end in sight, many of the questions animating this election season's seamiest subplots are no closer to being answered.
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But at least such series were entertaining children with well developed, original characters engaged in comic subplots sitting within coherent, creative overarching narratives.
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The big emotional payouts in "Friends"—despite its name—were found in romantic subplots and the coupling up of members in the group.
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And how Paul responds on a stage he's never before stepped on is one of the most fascinating subplots of the entire postseason.
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When his American publisher refused to release it, fearing its gay subplots would alienate his core audience, he published it in England instead.
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The film has some compelling new subplots, like the murder of a landowner and the black man who is wrongfully blamed for it.
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Acting chops are occasionally on view — Mr. Sorvino and Mr. Proval play well together — but the plot is weak, the subplots tacked on.
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Though the narrative arc between Kate and Tom's characters feels very predictable, all of the subplots to the movie are anything but expected.
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Mr. Lepage is fond of telling stories through shifting perspectives and mixed media, and he weaves together a series of loosely related subplots.
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Still, the piling up of incidents and images and subplots has a congestive effect here, blurring our focus and blunting our emotional responses.
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It's a natural fit there, being the most intense of all the Shakespearean tragedies, shorn for the most part of subplots and diversions.
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The often-overlooked Arab vote will be one of the most important subplots in this election, and could well determine Mr. Netanyahu's fate.
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That results in a curiously undernourished story that at times feels like it's setting up mysteries and subplots that never quite go anywhere.
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One of the stranger subplots in the story of the Russia investigation has been that of Peter Strzok, formerly a senior counterintelligence agent.
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New reports over the past two days have brought increased attention to three long-simmering subplots in special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation.
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But it is only after six more episodes, following subplots and storylines far afield, that the Indians themselves finally get to speak at length.
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It's a longstanding problem with prequels — knowing where so many of these subplots will end makes it harder to find them engaging and mysterious.
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The plots of The Avengers and Infinity War are fairly simple, but additional characters add subplots and conflicts that risk bloating the overall mission.
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The action scenes looked like interpretive dance as translated by an aerobics instructor, and the high school subplots could be goofy in the extreme.
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It's a spider's web of subplots within the floating space city where versions of the main characters, Rick and Morty, from other dimensions congregate.
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You have to wade through a couple of subplots but it's worth it, I think: 3D: "Became lenient" could be a positive, couldn't it?
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The showrunners seem to know that viewers are emotionally exhausted by this point, and so the rest of the subplots are also fairly fluffy.
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While ABC probably had the best of intentions for this remake, the internet did not appreciate the new movie's casting, subplots, or cinematic storytelling.
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McMahon packs his narrative with layers of plot, subplots and red herrings to distract from a rather obvious case of environmental raping and pillaging.
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Plots and subplots are handled with clumsy expediency, and themes that might connect this movie with the larger Lucasfilm mythos aren't allowed to develop.
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And if "Awards First" remains the academy's primary goal, based on recent history, there are likely to be plenty of unavoidable twists and subplots.
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This is just a sampling of this disjointed, crammed episode where simply too much happened, with minimal time to process and several distracting subplots.
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It's much harder to motivate yourself to crack open a weighty tome crammed with characters and subplots than to just scroll through Twitter's ephemera.
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Because while Emily and Linda aren't all that exciting, their predicament opens up the movie to all sorts of wacky side characters and silly subplots.
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Lizzie: During the first episode, I assumed the revival's fidgety, meandering style was just a way to quickly familiarize audiences with new subplots and characters.
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That's why you'll see subplots in films like The Martian in which the Chinese are specifically depicted as heroes; movie studios want butts in seats.
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No wonder the production feels so much like a study summary, with undeveloped subplots popping up like untended garden flowers and unelucidated motivations running rampant.
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Prior to 2011, the games on my list were almost all from major publishers and they essentially all had romances as subplots, not main stories.
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Extending the content of a show to 30 minutes could lead to broadening the content too much, diluting the focus with subplots and side stories.
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They don't have room even to deal with all aspects of the main plot, let alone with subplots, subtleties, underlying themes and long-running patterns.
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The Dr. Jordan weirdness I've avoided really exploring Dr. Jordan's subplots because they're sadly not nearly as intriguing as the mystery of Grace's lengthy flashbacks.
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Besides the usual reports hyping the elaborate, existentially fraught pageantry, some interesting political subplots have emerged during the buildup to the start of Rio Games.
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We're stuck with a little of both, with other characters getting emotional subplots but not exactly having the time or space to fully realize them.
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That moment — one of the most remarkable games of soccer ever played, given the score, the setting and the subplots — once left mouths hanging open.
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Once Kirkman arrives at the White House, though, the momentum fades as various tedious-looking subplots are introduced, and disbelief becomes more difficult to suspend.
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"The Americans" has created a crowded bulletin board of characters and subplots, and this new season struggles to pin the yarn to connect them all.
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Along with screenwriter Vasily Solovyov, he pruned a handful of the original novel's subplots and worked the thorny historical philosophizing into a palatable episodic structure.
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This is more or less true at certain times throughout season one, but I grew to really like all of these subplots by the end.
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It would be futile to try to convey the novel's considerable population, or its plots and subplots, though both population and plots are ingeniously interwoven.
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He introduces many subplots and characters in the beginning, and then slowly ties in the characters and plots together until everything connects in the end.
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As the subplots surrounding Claire's presidency fight for air, the "convenience" of Frank Underwood's death continues to smother them at the start of the season.
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Incidents that would be major scandals in a normal administration — like the mere fact of Trump's connection to Sater — become minor subplots in this one.
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Until that point, Wendy (the marvelously composed Maggie Siff) had spent the episode playing straightwoman in a pair of comic-relief subplots: Mr. and Mrs.
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Avoiding flabby subplots, Mr. Dholakia keeps "Raees" taut and suspenseful, even at two and a half hours, though it probably has a song too many.
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In one of the film's only subplots, Marianne and Héloïse help a young maid who is not ready to be a mother with an abortion.
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Joker's sole narrative mission is detailing how Arthur becomes the Joker; there are no subplots or side characters significant enough to distract from this focus.
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When a show like "Fargo" is juggling so many subplots at once, it can be liberating to isolate one and play it to the hilt.
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Stephen Tobolowsky carries some familiar workplace subplots as Penelope's sad-sack boss, and the show leans heavily on Ricky Ricardo-esque jokes about Lydia's accent.
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The Castle Rock Call: • This is where each week I'll note some of the minor subplots, intriguing clues, cultural references, and Stephen King Easter eggs.
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Related: Photographer Captures the 'Fear and Loathing' of GTA V Subplots Uncanny GTA V Photos Remind Us We Might Be in a Simulated World Finally!
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At some point, our digital love interests, which used to be mainly provided by major developers and relegated to subplots, became the focus of mainstream games.
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For the subplots they couldn't get footage of, the team got those involved to recount what happened and hired animators to bring the stories to life.
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But it remains unclear how detailed that document is, and whether it will resolve the various investigations and subplots that have emerged from the Russia investigation.
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Subplots that would once have been murky to the point of incomprehensibility (what was the deal with that dead sea captain again?) step into the light.
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In its final two episodes, Sneaky Pete delivers some fun set pieces, particularly when all of the season's subplots collide in unusual and surprisingly exciting ways.
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As podcasts have become more elaborate, with complex stories complete with cliffhangers, narrative reversals and subplots, the main action in adaptations has shifted toward scripted series.
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One of the best subplots of HBO's Silicon Valley this season was exploring how broke people manage to find housing in one of America's most expensive cities.
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Between moments with fellow dads, various subplots play out, including mounting stress over the most important person in your life, your daughter, preparing to leave for college.
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Plot-wise, that's just scratching the surface of a film that's packed to the gills with subplots, including a small role for fantasy-film stalwart Warwick Davis.
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Incredibles 2 has so many sidelines and subplots that it periodically feels like it's a whole season of an Incredibles TV series crammed into one antic movie.
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Patrick's mother (Gretchen Mol) isn't in the picture, one of the subplots that Lonergan ("You Can Count on Me") gradually peels away through a series of flashbacks.
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In a lot of ways, that's a good thing: Who wants to spend three seasons focusing on a boring character and wasting the fun ones on subplots?
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It includes subplots like the Standard Oil monopoly, Nelson Rockefeller's stewardship as governor of New York and the family's charitable giving in medical research and modern art.
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Among the myriad subplots, prodigal daughter Beth (Kelly Reilly) also returns, bringing with her a hostility toward this outdoorsy paradise, which she had clearly sought to escape.
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By focusing on insect violence in particular, Schmidt has become attuned to all the ways in which human stories are mere subplots of that larger martial epic.
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As this nomination fight takes place amid the backdrop of a presidential election, the glare of this looming battle exposes many of the subplots confronting the race.
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There's nothing particularly malicious about it, but a pattern emerges in the ways these plot points still subscribe to the boys' perspective in ways other subplots don't.
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Do you watch "Love, Actually," even though when you stop and think about it, some of its romantic subplots involve what might be considered workplace sexual harassment?
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THE BORDER (Morrow/HarperCollins, $28.99) is a mighty book, overflowing with dramatic subplots populated by characters who come and go and are killed off with alarming frequency.
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By the end the show had boiled the roughly 9,000 subplots it introduced over seven seasons down to two: Jon and Dany's coalition of the willing vs.
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While the show presumably won't stoop to such an egregious gimmick this time around, there are quite a few subplots to resolve in the 85-minute finale.
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"'Young Justice' season three brought most of the series' subplots to a satisfying resolution, while simultaneously setting the stage for season four," said Phillip Martinez in Newsweek.
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They cut or condensed many characters and subplots, while altering others so drastically that they ended up bearing only a surface resemblance to what was on the page.
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Major Free Agents: S Eric Weddle, TE Antonio Gates, DE Kendall Reyes, TE Ladarius Green The organization's puzzling hatred of Weddle was one of the season's weirder subplots.
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Rhonda's suffering would be the central tragedy of any other series, but for "Empire," a whirl of high stakes and desperate measures, it's just one of many subplots.
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That it manages to sail all its subplots comfortably into port in about 75 minutes attests to the talents of its creators, cast and crew (pirate and otherwise).
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Outtakes: • For a show that is usually methodical about doling out subplots, Danny's affair with a parlor worker, ending in her murder and his suicide, happens awfully fast.
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They both have crushes — Victoria Ruesga and Mason Gooding play the objects of their infatuation — but sex and romance are side pursuits, subplots to the main love story.
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But its disjointed pile-up of abandoned subplots, inhumanly stilted acting, and anatomically improbable sex scenes have cemented its place as one of the worst films of all time.
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Along with dead parents, superpowers, and CG-heavy aerial battles over major metropolitan areas, romantic subplots are just kind of a thing we've come to expect from superhero movies.
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Actually, there is a third significant female role, that of Dora (a wry Chelsea Cree Groen), whose romance with a police officer provides one of the show's diversionary subplots.
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There's a lot of history and genealogy to recall in these subplots, and the three years that have passed since "83" are like three centuries in peak-TV time.
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An indictment that links together the bewildering subplots of the Russia saga into a broad criminal conspiracy is not a given, and some legal experts believe it's not coming.
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Most of the picture's half-dozen or so romantic subplots — which lie scattered about like torn wrapping paper on Christmas morning — involve workplace dalliances of one kind or another.
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So many of these ancillary characters and their subplots were discarded by the show as it narrowed its focus and lost interest in the lands across the Narrow Sea.
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On Sunday that was happening all over the place, as roughly 98 subplots unfolded over lots of conversation and a few flashes of action in a talky, busy episode.
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Among other subplots, the show focuses on a woman (Dolores Fonzi) who takes control of a soccer club and tries to purge the fan base of its criminal elements.
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Cohen, whose dramatic break with Trump has provided one of the ongoing subplots of the larger Russia investigation, plans to make reference to Trump's location in his opening statement.
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Some of the best films in history fall under the broad umbrella of "romantic comedy," and the generic romantic subplots of today's blockbusters give romance a bad rap in Hollywood.
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Instead, they're the Lady Birds, Atomic Blondes or The Shape of Waters: films that, while they're not quote-unquote LGBTQ films, have subplots or characters that fall under that umbrella.
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Given the dizzying number of minor subplots sprinkled throughout the episode, the final stretch manages to pack in a neat conclusion and some well-earned teases of what's to come.
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Jon Snow comes back as a blue-eyed zombie monster and this becomes the kind of television program in which zombie subplots just seriously won't stop happening and being boring.
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Westworld has set up a lot of intriguing subplots, characters, and themes that don't really cohere into a single story, and no one has yet emerged as a definite protagonist.
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Jacobson's high-flying wit is more Stoppardian than Shakespearean, even amid rom-com subplots and phallocentric jests equally well suited to Elizabethan drama as to the world of Judd Apatow.
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But Alexandria, even if it's been the setting for some of the show's most meandering episodes and subplots, proved important because it gave the main characters something worth fighting for.
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The subplots include the mysterious abduction of children, people in this world traveling about with spirit animals called daemons and the shadowy machinations of ruling cabal known as the Magisterium.
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In the second half, Ms. Mirza's attentions shift, maybe unwisely, to a number of subplots, like a plan to publish Layla's research and a conflict with Imran's sleazy white agent.
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But there was also the larger focus on the changing times — Barrow's job search, Molesley taking on some teaching duties at the local school, and all manner of other subplots.
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The farcical subplots involving Malvolio and Sir Andrew benefit from a new, modern translation by Olivier Cadiot, who has found witty puns to match Shakespeare's, without giving in to vulgarity.
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It's always left us wanting more, with little room for meandering subplots we wouldn't care about or annoying obstacles placed there solely for the sake of getting in extra episodes.
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The often-overlooked Arab vote will be one of the most important subplots in this election, and could well determine Mr. Netanyahu's fate, according to our Jerusalem bureau chief. 2110.
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He's not necessarily interested in how human beings interact with one another (a few of his stories contain romantic subplots, and they are noticeably less compelling than anything else he writes).
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The idea is that if fans simply slice away enough elven subplots, wizardly duels, and overlong barrel chases, they'll find a distilled essence of The Hobbit somewhere in the edit room.
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The time lapse in the finale inevitably meant subplots will be left dangling, other than the details Kevin provided about supporting characters as he caught Nora up on what she'd missed.
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Studios go so far as to add new footage for Chinese audiences, remove plot elements that could offend Chinese government officials, or add subplots that paint China in a positive light.
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By creating individual subplots, he created one of the first suburbs in New Orleans, as Creole cottages sprung up in their place, later making way to larger homes, shops, and businesses.
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But the Amazon dramedy already feels as if its act is growing a tad stale, with the various subplots inspiring the sort of indifference that merely heightens pressure on the headliner.
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The thing about the sequel now is it won't be as pivotal, because now, there are actual lesbians—lots of lesbian characters and lesbian subplots and lesbians are [not always tokens].
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Ms. Sweeney has complicated the book with a tangle of subplots, and Jack creates one when he meets a former fireman who lost his wife in the World Trade Center attacks.
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As befits a family-friendly sitcom, the subplots of the "O-S OSCAR P-A PARTY" that the DiMeos throw for other kids with disabilities and their families are aggressively silly.
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There are also some ornate subplots -- including a status-conscious brother-sister tandem upset about their new neighbor -- but not enough of it coalesces over the course of the eight episodes.
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The radicalization of Daou, a digital political consultant who refers to his change of heart as his "metamorphosis," is one of the most unexpected and intriguing subplots of the presidential race.
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All subplots of the game were overshadowed by the American hostages in Iran, 52 of whom were released a few days before the game after more than a year in captivity.
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"There are certainly a lot of subplots that I am not articulating right now that we did get, that... I will not be mentioning in terms of other things," he said.
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As vigilante fantasy, "Sweet/Vicious" can be deeply satisfying, and with subplots that tackle racial profiling and Greek-system hazing, the show stands to complicate the straightforward good girl/evil guy binary.
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There were no romantic subplots, no lulls in the action—just 100 minutes of dewy, glistening men with lumpy muscles who grunted heroically as they waged war on a crab-faced alien.
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Precisely how she answers that question will make for one of the more intriguing subplots to the narrative of Republican unification, especially as the rest of the GOP quickly comes to heel.
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And wherever its creators come up with fresh subplots or new character details, they tend to be poorly integrated, slapped erratically over the existing narrative like a half-assed coat of paint.
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They also contain so many half-developed characters and subplots, it's hard to imagine that Welles' actual planned final cut wouldn't have found a way to cut through some of the noise.
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If your favorite part of Twin Peaks is the convoluted, noirish subplots surrounding Josie Packard, Catherine Martell, and Benjamin Horne, you might enjoy Kobo Abe's existentially weird detective novel The Ruined Map.
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For seasons now, the ongoing rehabilitation of Sandor Clegane has low key been one of the best subplots on Game of Thrones – and "Dragonstone" brought us one of its finest moments yet.
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A lot of the emotional subplots in the Marvel movies can feel clinical, like Screenwriting 101: Iron Man feels this, then he feels this, then we learn it was this all along.
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Along the way, there are sexual infidelity and comic subplots involving Michèle's aging mother and the mother's young lover; Michèle's ex-husband;and their hapless son, who is raising his girlfriend's child.
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The Letter for the King adds characters and subplots that don't exist in Tonke Dragt's original text and is content to admit it has absolutely no idea what to do with them.
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There are a number of very involved subplots on this show that essentially end with a character confronting no larger conflict or villain than their own hubris, unwise loyalties, denial, or delusions.
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The writers try to compensate by making the subplots more expansive and complicated, which just means that none of the story lines feel quite as deep and textured as we're used to.
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Subplots and b-stories fade in a binge, and enough of them are rendered irrelevant by the end that you'll forget before Season 4 — and even then won't suffer for the loss.
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It perks along at a steady pace, though there are a couple of subplots, including one featuring Miranda Richardson as the widow of a secretive rich man, that never quite come together.
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Though Ms. Blundell weaves in various subplots — a lost Patek Philippe watch, a forged painting, a famous actress who hits on Ruthie's soon-to-be ex — the museum drama fuels the narrative.
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He reminds us that Towne's first draft was an overstuffed monster, bursting with subplots and extraneous characters that took weeks of contentious rewrite sessions in Polanski's rented Hollywood Hills home to disentangle.
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Robyn's clients run the gamut of celebrity misbehavior, from being caught cheating on spouses to hiding secrets about their sexuality or (in one of the more twisted subplots) pretending to be pregnant.
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At times, the show felt too intrinsic: the displays were isolated from one another, with sartorial subplots neatly housed in their own world, feeling too dioramic, like a storybook land for children.
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The series, with eight hour-long episodes, would have had ample room to examine such details—particularly if it had lost the somewhat tiresome subplots involving peripheral characters, unlikely murders and coach accidents.
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The show's de facto predecessor is the 2018 film Veere Di Wedding, which drew from similar archetypes but didn't have the luxury of time to dive deeper into subplots and add extra nuance.
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There are other minor subplots, too, like Goldman's secret trysts and the drain-circling relationship between Rodney and Shay, but the overall impression is that an end to the good times is nigh.
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So it’s baffling that Disney, knowing what gold they had, decided to bury Jolie’s return performance under a dozen subplots, and sideline Maleficent for much of her own sequel.
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Straub sets in motion a series of fast-paced if predictable subplots, including a teen-age romance between the old friends' children and a long-hidden diary containing secrets about the aging musicians.
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That juggling act continues in Season 5, as Jimmy and Gretchen's fraught, sometimes agonizing progress toward adult responsibility is balanced by the more farcical subplots involving their small and motley collection of friends.
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While the cinematographer, Franz Lustig, conjures gauzy flashbacks and glowing glamour shots, promising subplots — like Stephan's possibly murky past and his daughter's dalliance with a dangerous young Hitler sympathizer — are hastily snuffed out.
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The reasons seem as complicated as the show's structure, but have a lot to do with consistently strong writing and performances, two of the show's major subplots and its introduction of an enticing mystery.
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People who really know me know that I thrive on reality TV. I quote Real Housewives dinner party fights like they're gospel and devour even the most staged Keeping Up With The Kardashians subplots.
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Flat notes and stilted phrasing create a "performance of alienation" that positions the reader as a spectator viewing a world produced by exposition, flashbacks and jump cuts between memories, illusory subplots and red herrings.
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Martin added a plethora of new point-of-view characters and subplots, and seemed to grow more interested in cerebral, complex explorations of themes like the difficulty of governance and the aftermath of war.
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It has its problems here and there — the subplots about the gym operated by Olsen's character's family mostly fall flat — but I get why Facebook Watch made such a big push for this series.
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There are so many moving pieces and subplots and superfluous characters (there's a whole bit about a cross-country road trip with Joey King that's totally unnecessary) that you'll be dizzy by the end.
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We learn about her abusive father and manic-depressive mother and the love story between her and Connor rejuvenates her innocence, one of the many strong subplots that develop throughout the superb Sing Street.
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One of the subplots in 76 involves social tension because two people from different tribes with different social status get married, and the wife's family hates the husband for what he represents to them.
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The back-and-forth escalated one of the rancorous subplots of the extended standoff over border security that has shuttered several government agencies and forced hundreds of thousands of federal workers to go unpaid.
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It has become one of the biggest subplots in Syria's seven-year civil war, with the potential to draw in even more actors, including, if the situation escalates enough, Russia and the United States.
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We can tell that it's not the case because there are many beloved, iconic movies made in the 19803s that built entire comedic subplots over what we can better recognize today as rape scenes.
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Icy and sinister with subplots involving the New York Stock Exchange and Middle Eastern campaign donors, "Modus," a captivating, occasionally convoluted Scandi noir, can also be found on PBS Masterpiece on Amazon Prime Video.
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While these are only subplots in a larger drama that also includes a military contest in the Pacific and nuclear negotiations with North Korea, they could also define the next chapter in that relationship.
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"The Simpsons" struggles when it tries to clutter episodes with characters and subplots, which makes an episode about a snowstorm that traps the kids in school with Skinner so sublime: It is beautifully simple.
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Scenes were expanded or discarded; subplots and transitions were created on the fly, and Mr. Del Toro, as he has throughout his career, occupied himself by endowing his character with vivid and imaginative details.
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"SEAL Team" isn't just about the same unit as "Six" — it has the same framing device (a flashback to a mission that goes wrong) and similar subplots about the strain on soldiers' family lives.
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Rick and Morty face down insectoid Gromflomite mobsters in the three-and-a-half-minute gore-fest, which is kind of like Pulp Fiction without all the developed characters, subplots, time shifts, and BDSM.
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But others complained about the absence of main characters (or the lack of plot movement in their storylines when they did turn up), and griped that the new characters and subplots were far less interesting.
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Tutuola's novels are all relatively short, but they contain the kinds of subplots, side quests, and digressions typical of epics such as The Odyssey, or Arthurian legends, or, yes, A Song of Ice and Fire.
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The supporting cast and their subplots are woven in expertly — my favorite are the struggles of Tom (Joe Hurst), Joy and Alan's high school–aged son, whose efforts to find a girlfriend are enjoyably awkward.
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As for subplots, the open relationship between Logan's daughter Shiv (Sarah Snook) and Tom (Matthew Macfadyen) moved into a new plane, in another brilliant sequence only overshadowed by the stakes surrounding Logan and Kendall's chat.
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There's an intriguing thread about Westinghouse's relationship with his forward-thinking wife Marguerite (a wonderful Katherine Waterston), although as with most of the subplots, The Current War doesn't take much time to dig into it.
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"Game of Thrones" returns for its sixth season on HBO on Sunday, and with a cast of thousands and nearly as many subplots, you could be forgiven for being a little fuzzy on the details.
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Bellis, whose given name is Catherine, provided one of the more intriguing subplots during the first week of the United States Open, owing to her youth, her status as an amateur and her American citizenship.
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While Castle possesses special skills aplenty, the subplots prove tired, and for stretches the biggest danger seems to be that -- its taciturn leading man notwithstanding -- that the show is going to talk somebody to death.
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Their relationship is just one of many subplots as the series tracks the course of Adams's life through the Revolutionary War, his presidency, and his retirement, but it takes center stage in the final episodes.
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It can be a challenge to watch most Marvel movies stoned—too many characters and subplots to keep in my head—but Doctor Strange is brain food mixed with a healthy dose of eye-candy.
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The upcoming series will reportedly take place before the events of Fellowship of the Ring, but other than that, there's no word on what Middle Earth tales or Silmarillion subplots the series will focus on.
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Despite the classy writing and beguiling details of Charles's life story, the novel is almost crushed by an overstuffed plot burdened with subplots and over-researched background particulars, making this the busiest of his books.
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That continuing issue aside, Ball is introducing too many subplots and invoking too many huge concepts (empathy, fear, anxiety, religious devotion, optimism, nihilism, relativism, hedonism, sexism, racism) to give any element the attention it deserves.
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Add to that a handful of subplots involving India's anticorruption protests of 2011, the conflict in Kashmir , a slum inspired by one of Dante's circles of hell, a massacre of peacocks and a poisoned apple.
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Both human and alien characters are depicted in vibrant color, and if the story feels a bit recycled to begin with — it's basically Battlestar Galactica all over again — it quickly expands to include more original subplots.
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It depicts one of the subplots in the game, in which the android Kara, a playable character, is inserted (as an enslaved robot maid) into the lives of an abusive single father and his young daughter.
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Lillard, 25, has earned oodles of respect this season while leading the Trail Blazers, and his meetings with Curry, 27, have the potential to be one of the league's more intriguing subplots for years to come.
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Paying close attention to the plots, subplots, and grand arcs of the franchise gave me the ability to eagle-eye in on the places where it fumbles, mismanaged itself, or seemed to give up in frustration.
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Far from crowded, the ornate but rundown interior is nevertheless somehow full of exchanged glances and potent gestures, shadowy subplots in search of a unifying conflict, minor characters busying themselves in anticipation of the protagonist's entrance.
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And it's a narrative that Tesla founder Elon Musk has cultivated well as he has jumped from one underdog-disruption scenario to the next, ditching various subplots as they become more and more implausible: Electric cars!
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By the fifth episode, you're following two separate Nazi hunting subplots, as well as a thread about the Nazis themselves and another thread about an FBI agent (Jerrika Hinton) who's hot on the trail of everyone.
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Meyer has always said she's too much of a chicken to watch R-rated movies, but her books are riddled with violent and disturbing subplots about women whose bodies are being taken over by outside forces.
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Valery's position makes for a series of gripping subplots, as he tries to avoid an international incident and incalculable scientific and military loss, while still keeping his men safe from a government that sees them as disposable.
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That's a tall order for a show obsessed with filler, subplots, and drawn-out narratives, but directly incorporating Negan is truly the best — if not only — way that the series can bring its disparate narrative threads together.
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The show doesn't bring all its subplots to a fully satisfying conclusion, but there are enough clever reveals to show Handler's vision and memory, and the advantage the show's writers gained by hewing so closely to it.
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The trouble isn't that Remedy has inserted TV into a video game — it's that it has inserted bad TV, with cliché-ridden subplots involving office romance and a Man Who Will Do Anything To Protect His Family.
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But here the gangsters are relegated to subplots, as are the various junkies and the politicians (Frank Wood as mayor Ed Koch squares off with Francisco "Papa Fuerte" Cruz, a Bronx city councilman played by Jimmy Smits).
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But from the tone of this announcement, it unfortunately sounds like whatever subplots the golden god might be involved in will probably focus more on raising Brian Jr. than trouncing Mac in a game of Chardee MacDennis.
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What looks like the central mystery — the return of a serial killer she failed to catch years before — is wrapped in twice the usual number of red-herring subplots, each violent and depressing in its own right.
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The main plot is super-convoluted, and yet the film works as well as it does because of the strength of its many subplots, which eventually come together to create the Jackson Pollock equivalent of a movie.
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In one of these subplots, Hazel leads Fiver and the surly rabbit cop Bigwig (John Boyega, who's just so good) on a quest to free a local group of caged rabbits who are being kept by humans.
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Beyond the specific subplots serviced, the episode was also a sort of microcosm of the entire series, Elliot using the size and disconnected structure of E Corp against it as he expertly manipulates its networks and vulnerabilities.
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Instead of treating soccer like a blood sport, he assumed the attitude of an aesthete, savoring ironies, tracking subplots on and off the field and in general doing his best to show the viewer a good time.
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There is an astonishing number of odd subplots, too, ranging from a secret society of assassin orphans to a serum that selectively destroys fetal brain tissue, ensuring that affected infants will be born with no moral center.
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"Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows" balances darkness and light, social commentary and ecstatic escapism: it is a well-gauged equilibrium that keeps the sex writing from feeling monotonous, and reinvigorates the subplots of honour killings and arranged marriages.
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But the ability isn't just a useful mechanic — it lets you visualize the six stories as a clockwork gestalt, tying them to physical space in a way that feels different from just watching a film with several subplots.
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There are well-written, funny scenes, including sketch-style comic riffs by Key, amusing subplots (a drunken wine tour of Long Island involving copious amounts of shitty wine), and a couple of entertaining (if totally unrealistic) madcap sequences.
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But the film is not just a paean to ramen—instead, it is filled with quirky vignettes, oddball subplots, and erotic side stories, all of which undoubtedly contributed to its 100 percent rating from critics on Rotten Tomatoes.
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Meanwhile, Secret City's political subplots pit senators of different parties against each other as they try to determine the best course for their country, while the intelligence plot focuses on a senior analyst having a crisis of conscience.
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But Stranger Things 3 leaves things on a welcome note of resolution, and if the Duffers decide that this is it for the show, then they've managed to end their trilogy of seasons flawlessly—all Pittsburgh subplots aside.
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Subplots stutter and stall; episodes are frequently unfocused; the unrelenting extremity eradicates any trace of plausibility; and Custer's parishioners frequently act out of character, as when a hitherto meek organist casually feeds her nudnik boyfriend to a vampire.
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There are smart subplots on liberal racial hypocrisy and the social disruptions of technology, but much of "The Good Fight" deals with a glamorous, dignified liberal woman in late middle age being systematically unhinged by the Trump presidency.
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Suffice to say, it's been a while, so it's totally understandable if you've forgotten what's happenings in Westeros — especially since, at any given time on Game of Thrones, there are multiple subplots, double-crosses, and fake-outs spinning around.
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How that plays out, and whether Negan becomes an antagonist or more of an antihero member of the current crew when he's inevitably let out of the jail cell, is one of the more interesting subplots brewing on TWD.
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But these subplots still felt rushed and spread thin, stuffed between so many other scenes, and seemingly serving the purpose of letting both of the characters disappear for an unspecified amount of time when the show returns in February.
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With its multiple characters and subplots, Lo and Behold is all over the place, but Herzog's thesis seems to be that the vast expanse of the internet is a reflection of those who use it—for good and ill.
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People duck each other at first, then begin talking way too much about the problems that brought them to Tranquillum — and there is no limit to the number of subplots Moriarty is eager to cram into a single book.
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Too many minor characters and subplots are cast out but never fully realized: the teenage daughter's (Madeleine Arthur) interest in Wicca; the hydrologist (Elliot Knight) who, oddly, tries to romance her; and a local freaknik played by Tommy Chong.
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Per the Reporter, Baldwin "was in extended negotiations for the better part of a year before pulling out of the project," and Fey retooled the series for Ted Danson and cut out all the Tracy Jordan subplots or whatever.
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Still, keeping the focus so tightly on Liz and Darcy results in some odd pacing; some of Austen's arguably less essential scenes are reproduced nearly in full, while a few entire subplots are dispatched with a line or two.
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In addition to the annual promise of onstage flubs and controversy-stoking speeches, this year's ceremony has several intriguing subplots to track: Will La La Land meet or break the record for most Oscars won by a single film?
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Payne and Taylor throw out subplots and sequences where Paul confronts his own good fortune in life and contrasts it with other people's experiences, but he's such a bland echo chamber of a character that none of it much hits home.
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And while the story is predictable and over-laden with subplots (some kind of cross between The Greatest Showman and The Nutcracker and the Four Realms, and maybe a dash of Mary Poppins Returns), by the end it's justified its stay.
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So yes, on the surface this film presents as a somewhat funny warning about the dangers of kinky sex (there are a couple of subplots that I won't get into here, but let's just say you have to suspend your disbelief).
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Thankfully, the show does have a lot to work with here, so long as it doesn't bog itself down with too many subplots and it gets back to business with the straightforward storytelling we saw in episodes 1 and 2.
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The film is downright American in its tendency toward excess – it runs a hefty 141 minutes long, and crams that time with more extended action sequences, more characters, more subplots, and more dead bodies than I cared to keep track of.
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But I'm a film critic, not a seasoned raver, so the night was to serve as an immersive introduction to Aoki for someone whose electronic music knowledge is limited almost exclusively to acts that employ novelty headgear (and strange television subplots).
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Unfortunately, the inevitable feel-good message takes forever to roll around, while the movie -- directed by Kenny Ortega, a musical veteran whose credits include the first "Descendants" and "High School Musical" -- gets tied up in trite romantic subplots involving various characters.
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Washington (CNN)When President Donald Trump on Monday suggested his predecessor had failed to contact the families of fallen American troops, it was less a bombshell and more a twist in what has become one of his presidency's ongoing subplots.
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Clinton's most extensive yet on one of the more unusual subplots of the presidential campaign, came after a Washington Post report that United States intelligence and law enforcement agencies are probing a wide, covert Russian effort to disrupt the presidential election.
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Packed with plots and subplots, heady in its play of ideas and its spoofing of "theory," it likewise offers a trail of bodies, an oddly matched pair of investigators, a missing text, and pages upon pages of elaborate philosophical debate.
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During a conversation with Cathy Durant and the Joint Chiefs in this episode, Frank refers to the advance of the terrorist group ICO as a serpent's path, which is an apt description for the plots and subplots in this episode.
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In fact, as you drill down, you find subplots and surprises in Winston's work, which often seems almost beautiful in its simplicity, before you realize you're staring at a candy-colored bowl of plastics previously held by hard drug users.
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The Jim Boylen Show is one of those classic NBA subplots that began as a cracked carnival ride, but—not so much including Wednesday night's need for introspection—may be maturing into a situation that's slightly more intriguing than pitiful.
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Mainstream "mature" games, like The Witcher 3 and BioWare's stable of Mass Effect and Dragon Age titles, take great pleasure and put a great emphasis on their indelicate-but-charming romantic subplots with a variety of potential in-game partners.
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The early episodes hint at yet-to-develop subplots; they gradually reveal that Bridgette has an eating disorder and a history of sexual abuse, and Tutu — whom Ms. O'Donnell wears like a comfortable old shirt — seems to be grappling with depression.
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While that was not exactly the sort of happy ending that neatly ties up the overlapping subplots of Globo melodramas, it was applauded by an increasingly active feminist movement that has long denounced the deep-seated sexism in Brazilian culture.
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But unless you're an avid fan of Morgan's book, odds are most viewers will spend two or three episodes grasping the rules of this strange society, as the subplots pile up and the murder mystery recedes in importance -- and interest.
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In one of the subplots of the show, a developer targets the Pink Houses for replacement with luxury housing, dispatching a henchman to turn the gangs on each other until the houses are too violent for the city to handle.
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The two subplots are clearly tied to one another by common characters and a shared pain, but their real connection lies in the striking point both end up making about the tragedy of lost potential — and whether it can ever be recovered.
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Some of their subplots went nowhere, many of their comic interludes were clumsy, and even with 22017 hours to play with, the series shortchanged some of the original series' cast of ancient evil spirits, corrupt plutocrats, and mystically attuned champions of justice.
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Eugene and Ezekiel are perfect examples of how The Walking Dead's pacing problem sinks its subplots in inadequacy, with entire episodes dedicated to single characters that don't end up paying off, because those characters are only given five minutes in a finale.
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One of her most affecting subplots comes from Sim's sweet flirtation with Felicity, which forces the asexual Felicity to think about whether she is also aromantic, or whether she wants to make room in her life for an unconventional kind of romance.
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And last, but certainly not least ... It's a testament to how great Game of Thrones is at giving you a compelling ensemble with rich subplots and backstories that one of the shows' most longed-for, epic battles is between two minor characters.
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And although some of those blockbusters are very good indeed, Marvel's weakest moments feel like obvious concessions to this strategy, with stories that either grind to a halt introducing new characters and subplots, or get dragged out needlessly in sequel after sequel.
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Even the romantic subplots of the last years felt like do-overs, a flirtation with her fellow lawyer Finn Polmar (Matthew Goode), then a fling with Jason Crouse (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), a laconic, bearded sex cowboy straight out of a fan-fictioneer's dreams.
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"As far as tween-oriented shows go, 'Free Rein' is as watchable as they come — reasonable kid-acting, no constant shrieking, and a decent balance of friendship stories, family stories, romantic subplots and general horsiness," Margaret Lyons wrote in The New York Times.
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In the age of franchise sprawl, where movies must juggle stories and subplots that cross over multiple films and where filmmakers are always trying to stay one step ahead of online fans with shocking plot developments, that's an art that's largely disappeared.
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Surrounded by a good cast that includes supporting or cameo roles by Alexander Skarsgard, Mel Rodriguez, Julie Benz, Mary Steenburgen and Sharon Lawrence, the series takes a while to find its groove, and some of the subplots feel as if they're killing time.
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HOUSTON — One of the most compelling subplots of this year's Super Bowl is the showdown between the New England Patriots and N.F.L. Commissioner Roger Goodell, who suspended the team's star quarterback, Tom Brady, for four games at the start of the season.
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That leaves the time-consuming but not particularly significant subplots about Gabe's past undercover work among neo-Nazis (shades of the F.B.I. agent Stan Beeman in "The Americans") and the problems Gabe's workload causes in his marriage (Jessica Raine plays his wife).
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Atop an interesting premise where the border between life and death has broken down and been transformed into a new frontier for exotic resources and technology, Death Stranding begins piling on more analogy, and turning decent subplots or bits of backstory into feature-length drama.
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Victor Robles CF Max Scherzer P A mostly uninspiring World Series turned on its head Tuesday when the Washington Nationals defeated the Houston Astros, 7-2, in a dramatic Game 6 full of heroes, subplots and memorable moments, all to set up baseball's ultimate game.
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Over a sprawling web of modern techno-thriller, near-future sci-fi, and high fantasy subplots, Fall lays out a theory on the mind-body problem, a retelling of John Milton's Paradise Lost, and a riff on the classic sci-fi trope of brain uploading.
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But amongst Jon Snow's departure for a mission beyond the Wall with a motley crew of supporting characters and Tyrion Lannister's attempt to arrange a summit between Queen Daenerys and Queen Cersei, we saw intriguing developments in several of the series' long-running subplots.
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Thanks to Kwan's book, though, Chu and writers Peter Chiarelli and Adele Lim have a rich assortment of characters to mine, and the latitude to flesh out the central romance with subplots like the strained marriage of Nick's cousin Astrid ("Humans" star Gemma Chan).
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What to Expect: It's a small miracle that there are enough Starks left for two subplots, but here we go: (1) Jon Snow is now king in the North, but is less concerned with ruling than with the White Walkers steadily marching toward Winterfell.
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After one of them mentally tricks a cop into crashing his and the other cars in pursuit, a "008" tattoo on her wrist reminds us that, oh right, there are potentially at least 10 other Elevens running around to spark telekinetic mayhem and future subplots.
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Mary Richards had her share of romantic subplots during the run of the show, but the writers (including Silverman, one of the few women in the room) were far more interested in her friendships and in how she navigated a stressful, fast-paced workplace.
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As in Star Wars, Harry Potter or Avatar: The Last Airbender (probably the most analogous series), there are so many side characters, mysterious subplots and allusions to pre-book history that readers accustomed to simpler narratives might end up with a case of whiplash.
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What does occupy screen time, rather than the entertaining, street-level business of flimflammery, are duller subplots involving Linda's flirtation with a dodgy hypnotist (Emmanuelle Chriqui), Charlie's visits with an unorthodox neurologist (Susan Misner) and the romantic travails of Charlie and Linda's son (Dylan Schmid).
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Even since before his inauguration, Mr. Trump's rise has been characterized by an erosion of surety, bizarre and inscrutable subplots worthy of an airport-bookstore spy thriller, by epistemological questions about what is truth and what is fiction like no time in recent American history.
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This version gave Gadot and "Man of Steel" holdovers Amy Adams and Diane Lane far more to do, significantly trimmed subplots involving the Flash and Cyborg (one character, a love interest for Miller played by Kiersey Clemons, was cut entirely) and added more jokes.
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Many serialized genre dramas restrict romance to subplots and view it as subordinate to the overall concerns of the story, but on Black Sails, romantic relationships are part and parcel of both who the characters are and their roles in the wars at hand.
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The most difficult task facing Infinity War is addressing all of the characters, motivations, subplots, and relationships that the Marvel Cinematic Universe has built up over the years without making it feel like an expository avalanche careening down a mountain to bury the audience below.
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Even South Park got in the joke, dedicated subplots and a comically indulgent amount of references over its last two episodes to just how many hours the residents of the small Colorado town were spending in the game's virtual 19th century slice of the American South.
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Jackson, his partner Fran Walsh, and fellow New Zealand weirdos Danny Mulheron and Stephen Sinclair collaborated on a screenplay that weaves together about half a dozen subplots; the most prominent involves the talented hippopotamus Heidi, whose lover (and the troupe's impresario) Bletch is cruelly dismissive and adulterous.
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There's also a wealth of ridiculous subplots that belong in television comedy, including Mia's secret admirer, a visit from her Midwestern family, the relationship between her mother and algebra teacher, and the epic slow burn of the Guy Who Hates It When They Put Corn In Chili.
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It's their relationship, formed in episode 1, that is at the heart of action, but the most memorable scenes of the series so far have taken place with other gods that we have met in subplots (presumably ones that will be linked together in an upcoming episode).
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One of the subplots of the coming transfer window will be whether Turkey remains a popular destination for once-top players who are on the decline but not quite willing to give up on European competition for enormous paydays in the United States or Middle East.
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Alas, the plot and subplots are variations on time-honored Hong Kong cinema devices: The young Fei (played as an adult by Eddie Peng) grows up training alongside a buddy, Fiery (Jing Boran); both pine for the same woman, Chun (Wang Luodan), a minder of street waifs.
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Rolling within each season are subplots (a cat chases a mouse; a parrot escapes; a fallen jogger is tended by a passer-by, from which romance blooms), while macroplots are threaded across the year (a woman has a baby; a school is built; a pumpkin grows).
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Beginning with the fourth novel in the series, A Feast for Crows, and continuing with A Dance with Dragons, Martin introduced a plethora of new point-of-view characters, writing hundreds of pages about entirely new subplots that were happening many hundreds of miles away from the main action.
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The show carefully stages a certain amount of self-awareness, making reference to its own characters' failings, complicating itself with a puzzle-box structure of interconnected subplots, and these attempts at complexity function to signal that the show is about the colonial fantasy, but is not the fantasy itself.
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On the plus side, the eighth-season opener features a sprawling assortment of characters -- as opposed to "Dead's" by-now familiar habit of scattering them and pursuing personal, individual subplots -- united under their leader Rick (Andrew Lincoln) in a military-style campaign to defeat Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan).
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Take a step back and consider you may not actually know the facts, either – that this image was CREATED and put out by a pair of "Gender Traitors" who are no strangers to many of the subplots of oppression, violence, and inequality that run through Margaret's brilliant work.
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Despicable Me 33 is not fully successful, as it's stuffed with too many competing plots and subplots involving everything from unemployment, new bosses, and a villain voiced by South Park's Trey Parker to '80s nostalgia, exploring a foreign country, and Gru's brother Dru, who we previously didn't know existed.
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I imagine most of the disappointing aspects of Season 7 amount to shrinking pains, products of having to condense all those subplots we've watched over six seasons down into one master one, while also preserving enough major characters to give ample emotional weight to next season's final clashes.
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There is the technical badness of The Room—a plot devoid of rational motivation, subplots that go nowhere, establishing shots that make no sense, mixing of digital and celluloid photography, bad green screen backgrounds, pointless jogging sequences, and why do the characters keep gathering up on the roof?
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The Walking Dead's laziest writing crutch is using short, shallow scenes as an excuse to check in on characters, where faces most people have long forgotten about or don't much care for are brought back into the fold just to tie up loose ends and remind viewers where ancillary subplots stand.
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If United and City's matching flawless starts to the Premier League season were not enough, then the slew of subplots — particularly the first meeting on English soil between City's new manager, Pep Guardiola, and his United rival, José Mourinho, soccer's repelling poles — have turned the game into a must-see event.
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Others, like James Feldman, class of 1992, an entertainment lawyer in Los Angeles, were drawn to one of the team's charming subplots: Brandon Sherrod took last year off from the basketball team to sing and tour with a Yale institution of much greater renown, the Whiffenpoofs, an a cappella group.
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Add in a whole mess of subplots involving Buffy pining after her dad and Angel doing some of his most self-indulgent moping, and "Helpless" loses some of the spark it could've had by making Buffy fend for herself without her powers for the first time since before the show began.
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But the precision and flair with which CRA is directed only serves to highlight what, to my mind, is the film's biggest detriment: a script that throws together way too many subplots, feels oddly uncurious about its characters—is there anything to know about Nick, other than he's, you know, pretty nice?
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But now and again, Ms. Maffei takes "How to Bury a Saint" into unexpected territory, with subplots touching on the divergent needs of different generations, the existence of vanishing twins absorbed early in pregnancy, and the ways in which tradition can forge either connection or separation, depending on how it is used.
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Why it matters: Impeachment so far has been a messy and confusing process, with so many subplots that it's easy to lose track of what really matters: whether Trump held up military aid and a White House meeting with Ukraine's new president in exchange for a public promise to investigate Joe Biden's family.
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There are unpersuasive subplots involving a one-afternoon stand between Massive and Joyce (who serves the standard-issue role of the idealist oddball determined to escape the old neighborhood), Pnut's psychosomatic asthma and Mom's scheme to sue the city by presenting her slow-thinking son as a victim of lead paint poisoning.
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Its main subplots are the water crisis of Flint, Michigan (Moore's beleaguered hometown); the successful teachers' strike in West Virginia this past winter; the February school shooting in Parkland, Florida, and the subsequent student uprising that followed; and the complacency of establishment Democrats who have allowed the United States to sink into the Trumpian abyss.
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But the film takes its time meandering through various subplots: Pauline's romance with a forgettable upperclassman, Doris's run-in with some quickly dispatched bullies, and, most awkwardly, Alice's date with the girls' principal, Father Morgan (Henry Thomas), in a scene that plays out like a weird "psychic and a priest walk into a restaurant" joke.
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Even during its controversial fifth season, during which showrunners David Benioff and D. B. Weiss became particularly cavalier about killing off characters thought to be under the protection of Martin's written record and speeding up some subplots and character arcs while writing out others, the series was, at least nominally, still based on the books.
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In recent weeks, Trump's presidency has been overshadowed by the Russia scandal, which now involves multiple subplots, including the controversy over the firing of FBI director James Comey; the probe into possible collusion between Russian agents and his son-in-law Jared Kushner; and the new investigation into whether Trump is guilty of obstructing justice.
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There are times when the movie loves TV so much that you get the feeling it would rather just be TV. A whole sitcom-season's worth of story is shoehorned into less than two hours, as subplots and secondary characters that might have filled up half an episode are confined to a few swift beats.
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Still, one of the big subplots to watch during the Trump era will be potential conflicts between Trump's political appointees — who will sit in the White House and make up the top rungs of each agency — and the career civil servants who make up the bulk of the federal workforce and stick around from administration to administration.
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There are a million subplots, but that's the basic conflict, as gaggles of superheroes (minus The Hulk and Thor, who are conveniently out of town like your Canadian high school girlfriend) line up on one side or another, leading to an inevitable and legitimately awesome set piece in which all the heroes fight each other in an airplane hangar.
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In addition to the compelling central mystery of the murders, there are subplots involving political rivalries, religious and racial tension—particularly from those humans who worship The Martyr, a vaguely Christ-like figure, only hanged instead of crucified—romantic entanglements, a criminal underground, and dozens of smaller narrative flourishes that serve to further build out this fictional world.
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But the show is weighed down with subplots among its white characters in the police force and city hall — one senator is trotted onscreen once in a while to make an ominous reference to the Chinese exclusion act he's sponsoring — and characters we care about, like Cheng's formidable brothel owner Ah Toy, aren't given enough to do.
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Where "Daredevil" feels especially dreary is in its slowly recovering leading man, who once again engages in a period of soul-searching; and the various subplots involving his friends and allies, law partner Foggy (Elden Henson) and Karen (Deborah Ann Woll), who, based on the events that capped off season two, were convinced that their pal is dead.
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Despite a few questionable subplots involving a young woman and a much older man in a position of power, which prompted the critic A. O. Scott to label the movie's portrayal of love "shallow and dishonest" in The New York Times, the feature remains a cult classic and even received an unorthodox 15-minute sequel nearly 15 years later.
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Even if the House passes the AHCA, it's only the start of a long slog that will probably be even more brutal and tense in the Senate, where there'll be parliamentary procedure subplots as well as substantive negotiations, likely more focused on moderate Republican dissent and constrained by a smaller margin of Republican control in that chamber.
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Other subplots include Judy's growing frustration at the church's patriarchal traditions — which is much funnier than it sounds, given that one of Judy's modes of rebellion is gratuitous raunchiness, and that she comes with a fiancé (Tim Baltz) so deathly dull he's downright riveting — and Eli's battle against a small local congregation that stands as the David to his Goliath.
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There are a few main subplots, including a secretary (Juno Temple)'s attempting to move up to A&R by signing a pre-punk band, whose singer is played by Mick's son James Jagger; Richie's wife Devon (Olivia Wilde as a wonder of love and dissatisfaction); and foul-mouthed comic Andrew "Dice" Clay as Frank "Buck" Rogers, a grotesque and aggrieved-by-Donnie Osmond radio-station owner.
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Now, with "Warcraft" about to enter theaters and Ms. Jones preparing to give birth to the couple's first child at roughly the same time, Mr. Jones cannot help but regard the film — with its subplots of fathers and sons, and an orc couple preparing for their first baby — as a distillation of some of the very best and very worst experiences he has had.
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Bill Clinton and James Patterson's ambitious and wildly readable new novel, "The President Is Missing," arches more closely toward plausibility in its geopolitical subplots — threats against the Saudi king, malicious Russian meddling in world affairs — than its main story line of a president who ditches his handlers and goes rogue from the White House, convinced he is the only one who can foil a huge cyberterror plot.
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On one hand, it's Brooks's film that most betrays his TV sitcom roots, thanks to its one-liners, the cutaway-reaction style of its shooting and cutting, and moments of broad stereotyping, particularly by Kinnear and Cuba Gooding Jr. But it's also one of his more ambitious works, packing in subplots and subjects by the handful—indicative of a filmmaker who seems to genuinely struggle with the confines of the genre.
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These subplots about young love temper the grotesque bombast of the new season, because the Duffers seem to have learned that Stranger Things works best in the lulls—in the low-stakes, quiet moments between Mike and Eleven, or Steve and Dustin, or Brett Gelman's character and a random Russian hostage, in scenes were the show catches its breath and we're allowed to live alongside the characters for a minute.
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Similarly, some non-player characters get their own subplots that unfurl to teach us something about themselves; a warrior who fights in an arena for money to support an orphanage who appears a few hours into the game is particularly interesting.. There is also Sylvando, a character introduced early in the plot and who claims that his only mission in life is to spread joy through the world.
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Here are just a few of the storylines The Boss plays around with, without really connecting them to each other: Also, for some reason, there are brief subplots featuring characters played by Tyler Labine and Kathy Bates, actors who are famous enough that it seems safe to assume most of what they filmed ended up on the cutting room floor, especially since Labine is vital to the film's climax.
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It was always going to be hard to have the murder plotline tie up with the subplots when the show was so desperate to keep Tommy Lee Royce in the loop, but you have to commend the writers for trying; Frances Drummond was a hugely interesting character, if only one who saw her action poorly timed throughout, and John's relationship with Vicky (as well as its fallout) was a reason to keep coming back each week.
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The third season wasn't made up of one long arc but a bunch of little ones, which might have reduced Silicon Valley's dramatic heft, but the show is best when it spins off its characters into subplots all around the tech world—Jared gets evicted from his house by his own Airbnb tenant; Richard ends a budding relationship with a woman over a coding formatting argument; Josh Brener's Big Head loses the millions he got for doing nothing to a set of unscrupulous advisors.
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