If we must live in a time of real-world plot twists, why are all of the plot twists so hackneyed and clichéd?
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The wildest plot twists, alas, may be yet to come.
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But fairytales have plot twists, and Underwood's is no exception.
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Its dizzying plot twists included cult brainwashing and demonic possession.
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Engagements and marriages are beginning to replace adulterous plot twists.
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Perhaps the Trump era has similar plot twists in store.
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He packed his story with colorful characters and midseason plot twists.
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At best, viewers seemed baffled by the episode's bizarre plot twists.
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Seuss's books feature fun rhymes, colorful art and unexpected plot twists.
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She balances sharp psychological insights with plot twists and, miraculously, humor.
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"HURRICANE IRMA #HOTCOPS PLOT TWISTS," another one of Tobias's slides read.
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We now want details, plot twists, drama that can be seen.
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Danske Bank's problem is that further unpleasant plot twists lie ahead.
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But unlike those shows, Succession's plot twists rarely involve sexy complications.
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The stories have nearly identical plot twists in the final act.
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I planned plot twists on my own and with other role-players.
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It was spooky yet meaningful, with lovely prose and compelling plot twists.
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The plot twists just keep you engaged until the last possible moment.
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Hold, on though, folks: The plot twists aren't over in this episode.
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"It would have the most plot twists in history ever," wrote another.
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The hulking singer's story has more plot twists than an Italian libretto.
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Was there a dramatic conclusion involving elaborate plot twists and even shouting?
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That's a lot of plot twists, and they don't all make sense.
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Their silence is one of many plot twists in the corporate saga.
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There are Hitchcockian plot twists to her time spent with this crowd.
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Blood flows as the plot twists and turns to the very end.
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Stories have plots, subplots, plot twists, complicated characters who do complicated things.
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The plot twists, Easter eggs and surprises are either obvious or labored.
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Eastern time, have slightly more time to incorporate real-life plot twists.
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It's been praised for both its talented cast and unpredictable plot twists.
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Still, "Scythe" is full of sly plot twists and absorbing set pieces.
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It reveals plot twists that recast major figures' origins in unexpected ways.
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Oftentimes, the most outrageous of plot twists are what make that happen.
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But there were also some huge, consequential plot twists along the way.
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Sardonic humour and gothic plot-twists add a layer of macabre rustic comedy.
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This Is Us has been full of unexpected plot twists from the beginning.
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Stop reading this review now if don t want many plot twists spoiled.
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Like Game of Thrones, each episode is bursting with jaw-dropping plot twists.
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Plot twists play off of your assumptions in order to teach you lessons.
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Since Trump took office, there have been countless plot twists on North Korea.
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Don't pin your hopes on reality tv style plot twists or silver bullets.
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It's unwieldy and weird, with creaky plot twists and jarring shifts of mood.
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And having the future taken away is the mother of all plot twists.
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Here's where we get to the first in a series of plot twists.
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There are two more acts, but let's keep a few plot twists untold.
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This is one of Bacharach's more playful tendencies: good old-fashioned plot twists.
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But Scandal was more than its wildest plot twists or Olivia's white hat.
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Romance novelist Nancy Crampton-Brophy is known for writing books with unexpected plot twists.
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Over 140 minutes, plot twists, flashbacks and bodies pile up at an alarming rate.
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Without question, it's the storylines and plot twists dreamed up by creator Charlie Brooker.
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Back in June, Dunham was teasing the upcoming season 6 plot twists on Insta.
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Viewers who haven't seen Resolution may be lost at some of the plot twists.
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The Game of Thrones universe is full dark themes, plot twists, and fan theories.
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But Ian Harding just proposed two of the biggest plot twists of them all.
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Even if the names are unfamiliar, the tropes and plot twists should sound familiar.
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Empire enthusiasts weren't just flipping out about the plot twists during last night's premiere.
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If you're still reeling from all those plot twists and turns, you're not alone.
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The show's plot twists — and there are a couple — never feel manipulative or forced.
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If you're still reading, clearly you're not a fan of plot twists and turns.
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The President has also surrounded himself with characters who present television-like plot twists.
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Disappointing plot twists ensue in a climactic brawl starved for snappier choreography and editing.
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And there are the usual narratives, but there are also usually unexpected plot twists.
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I never see plot twists coming, but this one made me feel like Nostradamus.
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The problem is that the company doesn't know what unpleasant plot twists lie ahead.
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The American lexicon contains scores of expressions designed to frame the unlikeliest plot twists.
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There's blindness caused by grief, melodramatic plot twists by the bushel, and a cricket narrator.
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There's cybernetic arms, fantastic lost cities, exciting plot twists, and above all, some beautiful animation.
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The co-director also added that we can look forward to plenty of plot twists.
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Me trying to figure out all the flash forward finale plot twists on #ThisIsUs pic.twitter.
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Hannah Brown's season of The Bachelorette may be over, but the plot twists certainly aren't.
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Zootopia is overall a total blast, full of humor and plot twists 'til the end.
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However, The Foreigner is set to include plot twists and mysteries surrounding Quan's real identity.
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But, as with a book turned into a movie, plot twists were added for effect.
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They're fables, not operas—undeveloped vignettes with plot twists that slam the door on ambiguity.
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Faithful to the thriller genre, Jewell makes liberal use of red herrings and plot twists.
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But he created some unique plot twists of his own in the long-awaited showdown.
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As do the plot twists, which are satisfying in a — you guessed it — dumb way.
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This intriguing movie has quite a few plot twists, and they're all admirably worked out.
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All in all, an intriguing night filled with new plot twists for the 2020 Democrats.
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Teachers opt for non-traditional plot twists to ensure that they're not reinforcing gender stereotypes.
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Tortuously paced and full of shocking plot twists, "No Exit" is haunting in its delivery.
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Why should the president be "rattled" and "jolted" by all the plot twists and turns?
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And his debt to Marvel shines throughout the show, particularly in its wildly inventive plot twists.
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The question, a nod to the current political climate, triggered some questionable...er...imaginative plot twists.
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Some prevent the Share feature from operating during crucial plot twists or while navigating dull menus.
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Episode 4 has some interesting plot twists but I am afraid not ones tied to reality.
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Its fondness for plot twists often obscures what's really happening, to the peril of everything else.
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Everywhere you look, alluring stories abound, blanks where you can fill in your best plot twists.
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And it is about entertainment: telling grand stories with recognisable characters and last-minute plot twists.
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And that we the people need daily plot twists and weekly cliffhangers in order to care?
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The Making a Murderer saga has been seeing more and more real-life plot twists lately.
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In this season finale, moments of utter brilliance come on the heels of leaden plot twists.
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The result is a pinball machine zinging with sharp dialogue, breathtaking plot twists and naughty humor.
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" Apel wrote gothic ghost stories about "aristocratic families enduring melodramatic plot twists in isolated, haunted castles.
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Even the minor characters have been interesting, and the plotlines and plot twists have been endless.
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Plus, the weird plot twists tossed into each movie certainly ups the feel-good entertainment factor.
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But what happens when the formulaic storytelling and uninspired "plot twists" finally exhaust his loyal base?
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I don't enjoy professional wrestling and the amount of sweaty manliness and improbable plot twists is commensurate.
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There are a few spoilers, but we tried not to reveal any of the best plot twists.
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Only Riverdale has attempted to fit as many plot twists and invented drugs into any single season.
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Though with the plot twists this series has delivered so far, at least a shudder is expected.
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They may not be perfect, but they haven't put their subscribers through quite so many plot twists.
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No one has a scene-chewing blowup, and there really aren't any major revelations or plot twists.
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Several games and an encyclopedia worth of bizarre plot twists later, Sora makes a nearly identical speech.
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As this thriller nears its climax, Mr. Vyleta's plot twists also require an awful lot of exposition.
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Yes, Snicket has his shtick: ponderous character names, an air of the old-fashioned, unlikely plot twists.
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But despite the blunders, missteps and excessive plot twists of "Welcome to Lagos," its dialogue rings true.
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After seven seasons of skullduggery and crazy plot twists, Scandal ended its run on Thursday, April 19.
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The first episode is packed with juicy moments, in terms of both character and unexpected plot twists.
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Much like the allegation against García Luna, it quickly blew over amid the trial's telenovela-like plot twists.
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What unfolds next is a loosely stitched together explanation for all of the plot twists over season 2.
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And don't treat trans characters' identities like "plot twists," as if being trans amounts to some wild revelation.
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It's a complicated narrative, flushed throughout with the manifold plot twists and color saturation that are Park's signature.
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It's strange watching Keeping Up With the Kardashians and knowing what major plot twists are about to unfurl.
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Look, it's obviously unfair to fault critics of the time for not predicting the crazy plot twists ahead.
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But hey, you're not watching My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 for plot twists (that'd be nice, though).
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" But, but, but ... "few if any major plot twists about what happened that day in Dallas in 1963.
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It galloped when a walk would do, and it consumed wild plot twists like fire gobbling up oxygen.
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But I'm including it here because the entire point of this episode isn't about plot twists or kills.
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The reality is that we have seen this movie before—with different actors, plot twists, and technological advancements.
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The standoff lasted three weeks as the murder mystery and its spy novel plot twists captivated the world.
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After a few loops of this main route he hooks up with Aoi, where several plot twists occur.
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You will probably see the major plot twists coming, but you won't necessarily enjoy what happens any less.
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And what's the use of all these plot twists if they don't clarify the motivations of the characters?
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Five pounds of shrimp later, This Is Us delivered yet another Pearson family Thanksgiving with major plot twists.
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After Tremayne and Markham's Indian servants run away, taking the pack mules with them, bizarre plot twists ensue.
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What plot twists called for giant sun-bleached vertebrae from a dragon, or bales of Squibb toothpaste containers?
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It's difficult to write about television like this—adult crime thrillers—because, inevitably, it means ruining plot twists.
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But there are enough differences to keep even the experienced gamers engaged, including some big, unexpected plot twists.
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There are many plot twists and characters in the novels that don't show up in the show at all.
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With all its blood, too-long songs, stunt casting, plot twists, nonsense costumes, and straight up offensive content, Repo!
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AHS has had its fair share of plot twists throughout the years, so this is a pretty telling statement.
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But I think episode 9, "Drink the Kool-Aid" delivered the thrills and plot twists that fans were craving.
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Without any deep individual character development, or plot twists, Shahidi's creativity as a director is the driving narrative force.
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Now that the show is in its third season, Chaikin is used to the many plot twists and turns.
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The first season of This Is Us was a dazzling array of time jumps, plot twists, and ominous suggestions.
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They manage to sell the less-believable plot twists, thanks in part to the earnest innocence of Chaplin's performance.
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J. K. Rowling pleaded with fans to keep the plot twists in "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" secret.
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It is a quintessentially American story of ambition and greed, with plot twists a fiction writer might consider outlandish.
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Joanna's conspiracy is so vast and preposterous that it becomes nothing more than a grab-bag of plot twists.
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And while you're engrossed in the plot twists, it neatly obliterates the standard American narrative of the Civil War.
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MICHAEL POWELL This trilogy has had too many plot twists, like an overstuffed blockbuster franchise straining to outdo itself.
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But plot twists are what make life interesting, and I found that investing was what made my brain happy.
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Like "Thrones" enthusiasts elsewhere, Chinese fans religiously follow each episode and discuss plot twists in real time on social media.
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Michael Petroni, who wrote and directed, peels back the layers of that memory slowly, keeping the plot twists well disguised.
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They're capable of showing interest in people who aren't screaming for attention and trying to engineer their own plot twists.
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Or at least it builds that core idea into a frame for jaw-dropping setpieces and brain-numbing plot twists.
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In this moment, the constant plot twists of the show convey an "anything is possible" feeling that actually includes hope.
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Charlie Cox makes the most of this extra attention, grounding all of these increasingly fantastical plot twists in real emotion.
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Filled with plot twists and turns, "Power" follows a New York club owner who is living a complicated double life.
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The latter typically involves few plot twists, focusing instead on legal strategy, which limits how convoluted the story can get.
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To court The standoff lasted three weeks as the murder mystery and its spy novel plot twists captivated the world.
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They're vaguely soundtrack-ish, they skew '90s, and maybe most importantly, they have extremely recognizable openings or clutch plot-twists.
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After three episodes that have introduced new players and their various alliances, this week's hour is overloaded with plot twists.
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Scene by scene, it finds raw, affecting themes about mortality and grieving, and it has some legitimately cool plot twists.
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Director Bong Joon-Ho's look at class divisions is a must-see and absolutely haunting for its unpredictable plot twists.
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It is not exactly a "story", either, in the sense of having plot twists and obstacles and heroes and villains.
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Though "White Noise" runs a full three hours, and skids on some of its plot twists, it doesn't feel long.
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To borrow a line from Schuyler, the plot twists get "more complicated than a flapper's past" — and about as fun.
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There were a handful of plot twists, long-delayed revelations and belated experiences, but those were par for the course.
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The show is both a wealth of plot twists and an empathetic study of one man's journey to be better.
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You're building a thorough grounding in the story now, so you can better understand the wild plot twists to come.
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That ambition let The Good Place deliver some incredible plot twists and biting comedy, but it didn't always work out.
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WATFORD, England — The Trump reality show: NATO edition certainly had its share of plot twists and dramatic reveals on Wednesday.
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In its first three seasons — the Nicholas Brody years — Homeland's gradual accretion of wacky plot twists slowly became its undoing.
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A. J. Finn's "The Woman in the Window," already a best seller, is packed with Hitchcock references and plot twists.
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There are so, so many plot twists throughout the first four episodes (out of nine in the show's first season).
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What's safe to predict is that Erdogan is likely to provide a few more plot twists before this is all over.
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Let's hope Big Little Lies doesn't also become a never-ending saga of poor decisions and unrealistic plot twists like PLL.
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The plot twists and turns as Tsugumo delves into his history, hoping to sway the lord... and possibly for other reasons?
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To reduce its characters to a collection of plot twists waiting to happen is to confuse their psychological richness for contrivance.
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Many superhero shows have started out promising, then dragged during their run, brought low by unnecessary padding or terrible plot twists.
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They have to cram all that storytelling, all those plot twists, all the character development into two and a half hours.
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The magical setting and innumerable plot twists are distractions, but the fact remains: The Good Place is about crime and punishment.
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He explores the link between superheroics and mental illness through visuals and plot twists meant to keep viewers unmoored and enraptured.
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But as this saga nears its end—the memo could be released as soon as today—some plot twists have occurred.
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Images and plot twists seem to have come more easily to Hitchcock than character work, which he left largely to screenwriters.
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If you look at "Magnificent Obsession," the things that happen are just beyond belief, in terms of plot twists, improbabilities, coincidences.
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Director and writer Sujeeth throws in countless plot twists, intent on distracting viewers with action, blood, gore and romance over substance.
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No zombies come shambling through the woods, and Mr. Shults doesn't jolt the audience with false scares or showy plot twists.
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His problems, and the nasty plot twists in store for him, may mean that his life has taken quite an unlucky turn.
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I'm usually pretty good at guessing plot twists but I will happily admit this one definitely kept me on my toes throughout.
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Rather than dress up its action with tricky, too-clever plot twists, "Black and Blue" respects both Alicia's and the viewer's intelligence.
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Not because it gives us shocking plot twists, but because it takes the time to fully explore the ramifications of each one.
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I can imagine it must be frustrating as a creator to have people immediately figure out your carefully crafted, elaborate plot twists.
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After so many unexpected plot twists and false revelations, we have trouble trusting Pretty Little Liars to leave us with any answers.
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Plot twists hinge on characters picking up slight allusions to Kierkegaard, or learning to question not just what they do but why.
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Everything is bathed in golden sunlight, and there's a nip in the air—big feels and plot twists abound in equal measure.
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But ultimately, The Staircase is less a series about crazy plot twists and one about relationships and how they change over time.
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The aura of authenticity on the smaller scale helps lend gravity to plot twists that, in other hands, might have seemed outlandish.
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It has hilarious dialogue, sad goodbyes, game-changing plot twists, and a massively talented cast that somehow get better with every episode.
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And in a novel replete with unusual characters and thought-provoking themes, there's paradoxically not much in the way of plot twists.
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If you're looking for a book with crazy plot twists and a supersonic narrative arc, this one may not be for you.
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Without divulging any of the satisfying plot twists — including just who Bach's target is — I can report that the novel unspools smoothly.
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Mr. Cherstich abridged the production and designed it "as if it was a thriller, with a series of plot twists," he explained.
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And speaking of plot twists, some leaders have thrown a wrench into the debate over whether to call witnesses in the trial.
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As far as bananas plot twists go, it's hard to think of what can top this memoir about a twisted family affair.
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There are a few moments in which the staging is confusing in conveying plot twists, although a lyrical ambiguity often feels appropriate.
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And, to be honest, there were moments in the finale that seemed right out of that increasingly frustrating playbook of plot twists.
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Trump has a tendency to view his presidency as a reality television show where what's important are storylines, confrontations, and plot twists.
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In the wake of the Singapore and U.S. announcements, further plot twists in the 1MDB saga may be on the cards, analysts said.
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For many Breaking Bad mega fans, this slow-burn series may not satisfy their need for bullets, plot twists, and nail-biter moments.
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HBO didn't send this season's finale to critics in advance, but if it's anything like season 1, expect jaw-dropping plot twists aplenty.
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It's a big, soapy froth, and Simien and showrunner Yvette Lee Bowser punctuate it all with deft one-liners and satisfying plot twists.
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If your 80+ hour game is heavy on plot twists and storybeats, of course you'd want to preserve that as best you can.
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And yes, go ahead and assume her rumored breakup with Tyga (yet again) will be fair game for plenty of manufactured plot twists.
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At least we know Minnette and his castmates will be reunited at the actual awards ceremony, conspiring on season 3's plot twists.
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The latest season of the hit Netflix show has even more suspense and plot twists than the first season that premiered last year.
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For those who haven't watched, it's a pulpy cop procedural with a penchant for over-the-top, almost self-parodically implausible plot twists.
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"Full House" had jumped the shark by the end of its eight-season run by giving Michelle amnesia, among other unlikely plot twists.
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The second episode of HBO's "Watchmen" revealed some surprising plot twists, interesting cameos, and was packed with Easter eggs referencing the original comics.
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While some viewers live in fear of running across a spoiler, others embrace the idea of getting a jump on the plot twists.
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The fundamentals aren&apost going to change; there are no looming plot twists, and consequently the naysayers&apos case now lies in ruins.
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But Mr. Mahathir, who now ranks as the world's oldest serving prime minister, has long been adept at staging unlikely political plot twists.
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Trump almost effortlessly introduces new plot twists, shocking developments, fresh characters to love or hate, gasp-inducing moments and tune-in-tomorrow cliffhangers.
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And yet somehow, it's became a legitimate cultural phenomenon, full of mind-bendingly excessive stunts, style, and plot twists, while still remaining strikingly earnest.
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As the show continues, its plot twists get more intentionally ludicrous, but because it's grounded in solid characters, the twists never overwhelm everything else.
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Spoiler warning: This essay does not give away the ending of "Rachel, Jack and Ashley Too," but it does reveal some major plot twists.
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It's easy, and lazy, to portray a man's mental collapse through these mean plot twists and frame it as some sort of social tragedy.
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That's bad news for everything from equities to precious metals to currency, which have already been gyrating at the election's last-minute plot twists.
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Kristen Stewart has spent enough time on blockbuster film sets to establish a keen understanding of sparkling dialogue, unpredictable plot twists, and Hollywood endings.
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The film was "Psycho" and Alfred Hitchcock's edict—part artistic statement, part marketing ploy—placed new emphasis on plot twists in the final act.
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Even if you're just looking at the first dozen issues of the comic, there are two major plot twists that carry massive story implications.
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It's common for actors in a series to know only part of the narrative as to bar plot twists from leaking to the masses.
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Besides letting viewers in on more of the action, "reveal videos" also provide an opportunity for things like unexpected plot twists or surprise endings.
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Even though it only lasts a few hours, Inside features multiple shocking plot twists that will completely change how you think about the game.
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Regardless, this sci-fi thriller was a hit with critics who lauded the intelligent script, interesting plot twists, and suspenseful scenes in this movie.
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But the current-day trip to Japan, which makes up the bulk of the novel, is marked by more pat and maudlin plot twists.
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But it takes far too long to get to that point, with far too much throat clearing and random plot twists along the way.
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They have featured plot twists of their own, with the president, at least while viewers are tuned in, breaking sharply with his own party.
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And while some viewers live in fear of running across a spoiler, others embrace the idea of getting a jump on the plot twists.
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Too many plot twists come and go in this show without satisfying resolutions; the characters don't even seem that interested in shocking news anymore.
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Plot twists toward the end of the play alter our perspective on the characters' ever-evolving relationship and make us ponder who's using who.
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" The Times said: "The matches are never going to be as compelling as the plot twists and career swings of the Williams family pendulum.
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The story she uncovers is worthy of fiction with hairpin plot twists, daredevil acts of love and unexpected moments of humor in dark times.
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"This trade war is having more plot twists than a Quentin Tarantino movie," OANDA senior market analyst Edward Moya wrote in a research note.
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The action and the interplay among the team members have a down-and-dirty credibility, and the plot twists, while convoluted, are plausibly so.
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The show's writers delighted in giving fans plot twists and cliffhangers that no one would expect — but there was one Crane shut down immediately.
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Instead, he uses its exaggerated morality, its absurd plot twists and its memorable one-liners as jumping off points for discourses about Buddhist teachings.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - If you were writing a script about Ricky Gervais' life, it would probably be rejected for having too many fanciful plot twists.
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It takes a bunch of unlikely plot twists to get them there, but the commitment to realism doesn't extend to the mechanics of the story.
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Keeping tabs on what we learned from the past year's shake-ups and plot twists underscores where there's still significant room for progress going forward.
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And, plot twists of Season 2 aside, it raises a fundamental ethical question we humans in the not-so-distant future are likely to face.
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If this is the age of prestige TV, then we certainly don't need to rely on plot twists to keep us interested in watching television.
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Because The Girl on the Train has less to work with, it busies itself with plot twists that don't do much to sell its intensity.
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Why all these hairpin turns from these two characters, who apparently can't make up their mind about anything, except that they like sudden plot twists?
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Unfortunately, despite raw, visceral action scenes shot compellingly by Malte Rosenfeld, the film gets too caught up in convoluted plot twists, which dull their impact.
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Moore, 34, spoke with PEOPLE about the revelation, sharing that the Nicky storyline was among the plot twists that surprised her the most this season.
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After many seasons of torturing viewers with Red Weddings and devastating plot twists, it seems the writers are cutting us an often self-referential break.
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Countless storylines and plot twists have had viewers and Twitter users gripped to must-see Thursday night TV thanks to showrunner and creator Shonda Rhimes.
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The thrill of watching Game of Thrones is inherently tied to the thrill of theorizing and imagining what crazy plot twists the future episodes hold.
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The movie, written and directed by Brian DeCubellis, has enough sleazy characters and plot twists to whet the palate of the most jaded mystery fans.
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Outlander "After three episodes that have introduced new players and their various alliances, this week's hour is overloaded with plot twists," writes Angelica Jade Bastién.
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To tell the full story of what happened to the triplets, Wardle and his team had to face a few plot twists of their own.
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Scenes where the iconic power of its Disney characters are marshalled to lend gravitas and familiarity to the series' biggest battles and oddest plot twists.
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For a brief time, they could offer up a kind of Borgesian magic, but the writing was schlocky, the plot twists jarring, the endings inconsequential.
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"The actor added that although there were plenty of plot twists this season, he was most shocked by how Nick "continued to become multi-layered.
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It was a contentious, sprawling, roller coaster of dashed hopes and false dawns — a mini-series where major characters suddenly die and plot twists shock.
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Over at The Washington Post, Alyssa Rosenberg zeroes in on one in particular that could ripple into an assortment of plot twists down the road.
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As a result, some of the emotional beats and plot twists — and that very exploration of right versus wrong — don't have the impact they deserve.
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Everything they do is so steeped in religious and literary symbolism, plus convoluted, time-hopping plot twists, that it seems way too early judge them.
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What starts as a fairly standard spice-rubbed chicken dish proceeds to snowball into an absolute horror show with more plot twists than Game of Thrones (full disclosure: I never watched Game of Thrones, but I assume there were plot twists.) First, the chicken gets shredded and mixed with…well, actually, just watch the video below; I don't want to spoil the fun for you.
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There are plenty of plot twists ahead, beginning with whom Mr. Obama selects and how that choice signals his strategy for maneuvering the Senate into action.
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Whereas most improv gets laughs through broad characters and dizzying plot twists, these companies delight in nothing more than a comic conceit about grammar or pronunciation.
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This Thanksgiving, as you try in vain to imagine a sillier, more fun holiday afternoon (rife with plot twists!) look to the Friends episodes for hope.
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While Master of None certainly doesn't have Pretty Little Liars-level plot twists and ever-complicated story lines, it's still helpful to hit the refresh button.
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Scandal's season 6 two-hour finale airs next week, so stay vigilant for any huge plot twists — or maybe just some Olivia Pope-style oversized handbags.
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Narrator: The second episode of HBO's "Watchmen" included a few shocking plot twists and was packed with many more Easter eggs referencing the original graphic novel.
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Or that the choices in the Netflix's interactive content affecting the plot twists, dialogue and even soundtrack, were made automatically by algorithms based on your profile.
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This is a heist narrative at heart — but it lacks the core elements of modern heist narratives: no team of charming specialists, no surprise plot twists.
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" This was the sort of sound that my grandmother regularly made responding to the predetermined plot twists of her favorite soap opera, "As the World Turns.
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This leaves viewers with the sort of basic questions that shows answer organically, when they don't opt for cheap plot twists over careful story development. 1.
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When it comes to sudden plot twists, "Discovery" writers have tended to rush them (see the deaths of Georgiou, Culber), and the impact has been minimal.
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Even when the characters act believably out of character and the plot twists in a satisfying way, all too often I can predict the next step.
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So kudos to Ms. Clark and Mr. Chen for an excellent Sunday outing, which is exactly what we expected and which has no plot twists whatsoever.
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But the two of them find a relaxed, nimble rhythm that keeps the movie going through so-so action sequences and less-than-fresh plot twists.
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They also have the busyness of good television drama, with lots of characters to keep track of and plot twists that keep you on your toes.
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Instead of focusing on plot twists, he might spend five minutes describing a painting on the wall of a character's home (chronicling minutiae ''just melts people's minds'').
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Still, the ads teased plot twists, sinister undercurrents, and a whole lot of drama, so I went for it and got my hands on the first episode.
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They took us under the sea, into the heart of the country's most pressing political debates, and through some of the biggest plot twists of the year.
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CANNES, France (Reuters) - Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda won the Palme d'Or at Cannes on Saturday for "Shoplifters", a critically acclaimed family drama with unguessable plot twists.
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Now in its fifth season, the modern day Twilight Zone still plays with large plot twists and ominous suggestions about the ways technology amplifies our bad behaviors.
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This Is Us, much like Lost, relies on surprising plot twists — so its cast and crew are under a lot of pressure to keep things under wraps.
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By not watching, you're not able to take part in those conversations (or if you do, you're certain to have major plot twists spoiled, ruining the fun).
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Shortly after these plot twists, Construction Worker sings a barn-burner called "Stand For," which is about her principled refusal to build a wall around her city.
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And from the fourth Furious movie on, the story of the franchise has been one story, which slowly builds on previously established character relationships and plot twists.
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The storytelling is suspenseful and cinematic; the characters complex and layered, with plot twists and turns that will keep viewers guessing throughout each of the eight episodes.
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Not that there weren't beautiful visuals and beautiful plot twists and beautiful libraries, but the dialogue was constantly winking at me and it made me feel weird!
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It's a telenovela, so it has some of those outrageous plot twists, but it's positive about life and humanity in a way most of these shows aren't.
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Indeed, in the first three episodes of the new season released to critics, The Affair is trying to stuff itself with a new round of plot twists.
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Granted, the plot twists are implausible — a candidate has a sex scandal four weeks before the election, is abandoned by his party's leadership and then goes rogue!
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"Eileen" has the plot twists of a Hitchcock movie, and Moshfegh has said in interviews that she named the beauty in that book Rebecca, after Hitchcock's film.
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When the time comes to sit up, it can be difficult to extricate yourself from the sheer number of plot twists, political machinations and costumed dinner guests.
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But recent plot twists in the politics of Maharashtra, a big, rich Indian state that is home to Mumbai and its cinema industry, are proving a showstopper.
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The show is careful to take care of new viewers — while knowledge of The Next Generation will certainly help you understand the significance of plot twists sooner.
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I'm 38 now, and there have been more plot twists in the last five years than I could have ever imagined: both significant failures and substantive successes.
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Besson keeps his study in intimacy fresh through nimble plot twists, in which the present disturbs a certain version of the past, creating repercussions for the future.
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I have spent the past week immersed in seasons 1 and 2, watching some episodes twice to make sure I understood the smallest plot twists and perspective shifts.
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But it's on paper -- in terms of the writing -- where the idea breaks down, yielding ridiculous and clichéd plot twists even by the show's frenetic real-time standards.
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For a series that attempts to talk about serious divisions in America right now, hauling in a conspiracy storyline threatens to bog everything down in unnecessary plot twists.
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Fans of the books took pride in videotaping their friends and family members watching shocking plot twists like the Red Wedding and uploading those reactions to social media.
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Unfortunately, Matt Williams's slack psychological thriller, "Fear," offers plenty of opportunities not just to ponder inconsistencies and contrived plot twists, but also to sneak glances at your watch.
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It's all a painfully obvious setup for Season 2, but the story's future shouldn't be based on a few last-minute plot twists that feel like add-ons.
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It's hard to say too much about NBC's delightfully daffy afterlife comedy The Good Place without spoiling one of its primary selling-points: the multiple madcap plot-twists.
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With its tremendously rich characters and unexpected plot twists, the NBC show has been manipulating its viewers into shedding tears since the last scene of the first episode.
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The over-the-top sentimentality, the emotionally manipulative plot twists, the obviously melancholic music — the whole thing felt pretty cheesy, a family-friendly sitcom of soap-opera proportions.
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But by the end, the accelerating plot twists and turns — love, obsession, family obligations, personal honor — become tangled and knotted; a few threads are simply ignored or discarded.
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Amid its tangled web of plot twists and murder, Game of Thrones has always been a visual spectacle the likes of which have rarely been seen on television.
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One of the strangest aspects of their work is their combination of sweeping plot twists and endings that leave the door open to both hopeful and hopeless futures.
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And almost as a rule, there can't be any major plot-twists or overly surprising character developments; it must be entirely ordinary, and thus just like the others.
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And like, plot twists and plot points and who is related to whom and who is going to sleep with whom next aside — not a big deal. Whatever.
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While many theater productions are driven by showy visuals, loud bangs and huge plot twists, Lincoln Center's new Big Umbrella Festival is striving to deliver the exact opposite.
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It all feels like a film with no major plot twists, except perhaps one: What happens if Pelosi refuses to submit the articles of impeachment to the Senate?
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This year's instalment of "The Trump Show" churned out more plot twists, sudden departures and cliffhangers than most primetime-drama writers would dare attempt in a single season.
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No one who didn't work on set could predict some of the incredible plot twists, new characters, and straight-up wildness of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.
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Mr. St. John began playing Neil Winters, a cosmetics executive who struggled with infidelity, alcoholism and many other plot twists, on "The Young and the Restless" in 1991.
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At this point, it's unclear how closely the show will follow the book, but with it as inspiration and King interpreting it, we can definitely expect major plot twists.
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Studios will go to great lengths to keep plot twists from moviegoers, but for big-budget franchises it can be pretty difficult to keep all those secrets under wraps.
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He hopes that, as in the world of soap operas, plot twists can erase the past, so the world of politics will forget all his previous deeds and words.
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When it aired, the season was roundly derided for its ludicrous plot twists and bizarre emotional logic, with viewers laughing over, say, a pacemaker being hacked via the internet.
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It's a crazy business, filled with the kinds of plot twists that come from terrible TV dramas, except with the added benefit of actually impacting the lives of many.
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Spoiler alert: It is not possible to review and comment on Episode 9 of the HBO show "Silicon Valley," which aired on Sunday, without revealing some critical plot twists.
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Spoiler alert: It is not possible to review and comment on Episode 5 of the HBO show "Silicon Valley," which aired on Sunday, without revealing some critical plot twists.
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UnREAL is known for its jaw-dropping plot twists, but Monday's episode once again pushed its own boundaries … and to a very dark place even by the show's standards.
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Spoiler alert: It is not possible to review and comment on Episode 4 of the HBO show "Silicon Valley," which aired on Sunday, without revealing some critical plot twists.
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Spoiler alert: It is not possible to review and comment on episode 10 of the HBO show "Silicon Valley," which aired on Sunday, without revealing some critical plot twists.
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Spoiler alert: It is not possible to review and comment on Episode 7 of the HBO show "Silicon Valley," which aired on Sunday, without revealing some critical plot twists.
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Spoiler alert: It is not possible to review and comment on Episode 6 of the HBO show "Silicon Valley," which aired on Sunday, without revealing some critical plot twists.
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Former FBI Director James Comey's Senate hearing on Thursday had all the appearances of must-see TV: A big lead up, dramatic characters, and potentially game-changing plot twists.
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People debated whether the Westworld theory mania was ruining the show, either by making every revelation a disappointment, or by turning Westworld into the sum of its plot twists.
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This is just to say that Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle is nightmare-inducing, both for its inclusion of scary plot twists and tigers that look like Benedict Cumberbatch.
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But this promising premise is sadly betrayed by a series of plot twists that render A Cure for Wellness more like The Phantom of the Opera than anything else.
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With a new season of Game of Thrones currently airing, shocking plot twists and gruesome spectacles are at their annual peak, and so is social media fervor about spoilers.
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That means the Romeo And Juliet adaptation-with-a-twist is filled with confident, intelligent women of color, a long list of insanely soapy plot twists, and gorgeous costuming.
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Not only that, but because there is a narrative which relies on plot twists, you can only ever play it once even if you did buy a second copy.
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Meanwhile, Affleck's autistic action hero in The Accountant isn't so much a character as a gimmick, given just enough backstory, delivered in flashback, to set up the plot twists.
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It's one of the most famous plot twists in TV history, and everything about this hour of television is Buffy operating at peak capacity for the very first time.
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It has been quite a tale: full of plot twists, upsets and indelible characters like Bill Tilden, Ken Rosewall, John McEnroe and Noah, to name just a very few.
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And so it was Monday that he skated through yet another sequence of stunning controversies and outrageous plot twists that would have been defining scandals for any other administration.
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Of course, some of the plot twists in The Crown — the most expensive show produced by Netflix — are so juicy and soapy that you'll struggle to believe they actually happened.
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But that barely scratches the surface of a whiplash-inducing series of plot twists, touching on torture, old-school porn, sadism, a mental hospital, and a ton of graphic sex.
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This season of Narcos will have you guessing until the very end – and unlike as with Seasons 1 and 2, the plot twists can't be resolved by going on Wikipedia.
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While this season is already filled with plot twists and hookups and heartbreak, it turns out there is a couple who ends up getting engaged — but can you guess who?
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The world of Harry Potter is charming and spectacular enough to enchant younger readers, and sinister enough that it will keep older readers on their toes with plot twists galore.
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"Given where we are, inevitably, there will be certain plot twists and reveals in season six of GAME OF THRONES that have not yet happened in the books," he said.
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American Gods is unlike any other show on television now for a combination of reasons: Its intensely saturated visuals, its compelling cast of misfit characters, and its continuous plot twists.
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Ideally, all major Game of Thrones plot twists from here on out will be accompanied with a brief explanatory song written and performed by the actor central to the twist.
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The strengths of this book more than outweigh its weaknesses, especially for readers trained by film to ignore inexplicable plot twists as long as they move at a furious pace.
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In Vargas Llosa's opinion, this scene, and the novel's many other triple-X plot twists, realistically capture the bedroom adventures that occurred during the darkest part of the Fujimori years.
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The litany of imbalances sounds repetitious only because gender inequality repeats itself daily, while the latest headline-making abuses are discussed as if fantastic plot twists in an outrageous soap.
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"Besson keeps his study in intimacy fresh through nimble plot twists, in which the present disturbs a certain version of the past, creating repercussions for the future," Ayten Tartici writes.
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The film seems genetically engineered to make money, with plot twists and a range of characters designed to appeal to every man, woman, child and Instagram follower on the planet.
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The themes and plot twists differ each time, but this is a formulaic drama that reveals Congress's bipartisan failure to perform its most basic task: to fund the federal government.
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But because all of this was wedded to Rhimes's consummate skill with big plot twists, carried out with panache, Scandal also became a huge hit, at least for a time.
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Thandie Newton makes every new power-up seem galvanizing, and I'm definitely content watching Elsie (Elsie!!) and Bernard stagger around the park bickering and uncovering new plot twists about humanoids.
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Most TV series drag in places, or feature episodes that are pure filler, but Stranger Things starts with a bang and keeps the mysteries and plot twists coming fast and furious.
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And it means that everyone – know-it-all gamers and clueless newbies alike – get to discover the rules and experience the plot twists together, making for a more inclusive cinematic experience.
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Robichek also mixes his illustrations with photography, á la Marty Cooper, Jean Jullien, and Sean Charmantz, playing with spacial relations or adding plot twists to his coarse black-and-white film.
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That's the pivotal question Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss and must answer over the next two seasons of depraved battles, shocking plot twists, and masterful visual effects.
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Many of the show's biggest plot-twists hinge on the way kids use everything from Twitter to texts to emojis to express themselves–yet only occasionally say what they really feel.
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If you keep throwing new plot developments at the audience without properly dealing with the old ones, you have a storyline where plot twists become cheap substitutes for actual plot progression.
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The plot twists loopily for a great deal of the film's nearly two-and-a-half-hour runtime until it settles into its final trajectory, but that's part of the fun.
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Taken at face value, the story — a love tangle set during the Crusades — is full of improbable plot twists designed to let the characters milk some emotion and display their voices.
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Murphy, one of the most powerful producers in television, has become known for his ridiculous plot twists and boundary-pushing willingness to take stories just about anywhere — sometimes to his detriment.
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As you might expect, this leads to a good hour and a half of engrossing panic, but Farhadi is less interested in plot twists than in the psychological revelations they precipitate.
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McAvoy's partner in crime sends him to a hypnotherapist (Rosario Dawson) in an attempt to unlock the location of the 18th century painting, but this only leads to further plot twists.
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Pitt is now an icon and — barring any crazy plot twists — is set to take home an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor this weekend, further solidifying his place in Hollywood history.
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I did a little research and found a copious number of "greatest plot twists" lists online, and the crowd favorite definitely seems to be here at 45A, PLANET OF THE APES.
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Their journey to this realization happens in a series of tightly controlled and delightfully ruthless plot twists that occur with increasing speed and depravity as the film ratchets up the tension.
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There's nothing wrong with secrets and plot twists, but not every work of entertainment can achieve the sort of mystique that turned examples like Lost or Game of Thrones into mega-hits.
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By contrast, the mystery that's surrounded William's identity has always made justifying his specific character evolution less important than revealing the next layer of that evolution for the sake of plot twists.
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In the Order of the Phoenix, Harry Potter is keen on ruining all of the plot twists in his life so he grabs one and listens to what it has to say.
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The series was a cornerstone of HBO's primetime offerings, but its final season was divisive, with both fans and critics finding specific plot twists, particularly the handling of one primary character, troubling.
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If a network reality TV show like the ones that made Trump a star are all about manufactured drama and plot twists, O'Rourke's live streams are notable for resembling boring real life.
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There's an investigation, plot twists and salacious details aplenty but this film focuses on its imperfect main character's struggle to reconcile herself with a past that she largely wasn't really present for.
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There's an investigation, plot twists and salacious details aplenty but this film focuses on its imperfect main character's struggle to reconcile herself with a past that she largely wasn't really present for.
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Its completely wild approach to plot twists, tone shifts, and overwrought dialogue has consistently been out-there enough to overshadow the inherent weirdness of CAOS's witches, demons, and magic powers — until now.
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A romantic wrinkle in part one — Sue falls in love with Maud — becomes the heart of the book, but fiendish plot twists follow, revealed through time shifts in parts two and three.
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Bao is proof positive that a short film doesn't necessarily mean a lesser film — this one serves up an entire feature's worth of emotions, themes, and plot twists in just eight minutes.
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In one of history's trademark plot twists, the famous polymath Carl Friedrich Gauss, who was then only 24 years old, stepped up to the plate to figure out where Ceres was headed next.
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But unlike lithium and cobalt, both of which have experienced straight-line price rallies over the last year or so, nickel looks more of a slow-burn story with some complicated plot twists.
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Various chaotic plot twists see Zalone variously dumped unceremoniously from a helicopter at the North Pole, talking about romance with an African tribe and squabbling over pasta and parking during his foreign travels.
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Assembled by the numbers and filmed (by John Pardue) as if it matters, "Finding Your Feet" boasts an embarrassingly on-the-nose soundtrack and plot twists you can see coming without your bifocals.
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An expository conversation at the end of the first episode waves its hands and asks the audience to turn off its critical thinking and roll with the coming explosions and nonsensical plot twists.
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Even before he gave his account, Mr. Ko had emerged as an intriguing figure in Ms. Park's corruption scandal, which has involved as many plot twists as the best of Korean soap operas.
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Prior to the season's final three hours (which began with that eighth episode), I had very much enjoyed The Expanse, especially in its go-for-broke action sequences and its bigger plot twists.
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From A21's Hereditary to Hulu's Castlerock, the devil has lurked behind dozens of 230's most talked about plot twists, appearing time and again to rain chaos on the mortals who challenge him.
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Here's why this should change: Her novels, especially this one and last year's The Ex, probe social issues and relationships at their messiest and most complicated, but never sacrificing killer pacing and plot twists.
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Game of Thrones, on the other hand, succeeds with a more sprawling cast and larger world because it's violence and plot twists have real consequences: Wars are started, heroes die, kingdoms rise and fall.
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The story of how Veronica and her father, private investigator Keith Mars, solve these crimes (plus pretty much every offense to cross Neptune's police blotter) unfolds with warmth, wit, and plenty of plot twists.
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It was screened for the first time at the Cannes Film Festival on Tuesday evening, drawing often rapturous response from critics who praised its darkly comic moments, outrageous plot twists and evocative period atmosphere.
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I wouldn't stake my professional reputation as a solid predictor of TV plot twists on it — especially since the next episode is titled "No One," which could indicate a swan song, maybe — but c'mon.
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Jeremy Egner, Television editor: We do our best to avoid revealing plot twists in TV reviews and essays, though the emergence of DVRing and streaming services makes that trickier than it used to be.
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You'd be hard pressed to find a better drama on TV this week than the World Series, with its last-minute plot twists, slow-dread confrontations, redemption arcs and deep, colorful cast of characters.
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"The two of them find a relaxed, nimble rhythm that keeps the movie going through so-so action sequences and less-than-fresh plot twists," A.O. Scott wrote in his New York Times review.
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While Mr. von Bothmer usually watches a movie several times before accompanying it in public, taking notes on crucial plot twists and moments of melodrama, he said he still partly improvises in those shows.
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This is all part of the script penned by Trineo Creativo, the production company whose Falsa Boda (fake weddings) are captivating young Argentines with their soap opera–style plot twists and all-night parties.
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But, in one of the most epic plot twists of the season, Sansa didn't kill her younger sister as we'd all feared she would; she killed Littlefinger instead — with his own dragonglass dagger, no less.
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In line with Game of Thrones' history of plot twists, it proposes a finale where Jon and Daenerys don't actually save the day with a gallant military victory over the White Walkers like we expect.
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Written by the novelist Tom Rob Smith and directed by Jakob Verbruggen ("The Fall"), "London Spy" is a mood piece, set in a blue-and-gray London and taking long, dawdling detours between plot twists.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads First among the reasons for the Museum of Modern Art's expansionist dreams was the need to punch up its hidebound historical narrative with new locales, characters, and plot twists.
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Those two plot twists have provided unexpected cover as the Middle East's largest economy claws its way out of recession, and as President Tayyip Erdogan recovers from shock local election losses by his ruling party.
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Like Ross, Kim speaks slowly and deliberately, without much intonation, and there are no plot twists or surprises as she defines her cheekbones and puckers her lips just as she's done a million times before.
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As The Good Place has zigzagged its way through a long string of plot twists and resets and reversals, it has taken away all of its characters' selfish motivations for trying to be better people.
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From its gratuitous rape scenes and brutal deaths to incestuous affairs and mind-blowing plot-twists, the HBO fantasy drama may have generated the most WTF moments of any show in the history of television.
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Most toymakers I spoke to traced this new gross toy trend to a broader internet trend of "surprise" — popularized by toy unboxing videos and by the general breakneck plot twists of popular children's YouTube channels.
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Tunnicliffe sets the proverbial table with plenty of plot twists and surprising character sketches — an unwanted pregnancy threatens to divide a couple, a clandestine lesbian affair ends abruptly and an ominous diagnosis disrupts Max's festivities.
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Fans of the *Song of Ice and Fire *novels have grown accustomed to their privileged knowledge of the story, and particularly of the tragic plot twists and character deaths that shocked the rest of the audience.
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There is something genuinely comforting about watching a teen romance about a gay kid told with the same comfy plot twists and heartwarming resolutions as the hundreds of straight teen romances that have come before it.
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Like an old TV soap opera, Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe – which turned a year old last week – keeps expanding into new storylines, generating increasingly complex and surprising plot twists, and bringing in new characters.
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The series had become the cornerstone of HBO's primetime offerings, but its final season was also its most divisive, with both fans and critics finding specific plot twists, particularly the handling of one primary character, troubling.
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The same happened last year with Westworld, which became a surprise hit for the network, filling in the GOT-sized hole in our hearts by providing a perfect blend of violence, romance, and thrilling plot twists.
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The restoration itself was filled with plot twists for the preservation architects, the California firm Page & Turnbull, beginning with scuba divers mapping the cracks by injecting dye into the crevices to see how much they leaked.
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The story now being told at the Shubert Theater, starring Jeff Daniels as Atticus Finch, will be fully familiar to fans of the novel: It features the same major characters and the same main plot twists.
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This project challenges students to not only create educational illustrations that integrate image and text, but to tell stories complete with a setting, characters, conflict, drama, humor, plot twists and, hopefully, a satisfying (and edible) ending.
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The Malamuts knew that "Game of Thrones" would eventually end, and also that it was prudent not to remain tied to a show notorious for its plot twists and its characters dying at an alarming rate.
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Every time Belko gets into a groove, with some fun plot twists or inventively gory moments, it pauses to make some point or another about the modern workplace that feels at least a decade out of date.
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There is some really fucking good action, romance, tension, and plot twists in here, and it's all elegantly written with the delicate care and attention to detail that only George R.R. Martin can bring to this series.
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Most of the lines are in Hindi, but many are also in Marathi and some plot twists turn on visible flashes of English; the ideal Indian viewer will be perfectly bilingual and happy to read subtitles too.
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Not that there weren't beautiful visuals and beautiful plot twists and... This past week, we published Andrew Hawkins' feature E-Waste Empire, which tracked the millions of pounds of dead electronics that New York discards each year.
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The kindest thing I can say about Warcraft is that it's not boring, but that's mostly because I was too busy trying to make sense of its tornado of fantasy names, CGI faces, and ludicrous plot twists.
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How To Get Away With Murder is ten pounds of mysteries and plot twists in a five-pound bag, so it's no surprise that fans have so many theories about what every detail of the show means.
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Its eight episodes comprise a centerless, ham-handed kludge of a season, one that keeps beating you over the head with music and ACTING and plot twists to try to convince you everything that's happening is Important.
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While The Americans boasts a scrupulous commitment to period detail, it doesn't tend to hang big plot twists on news events in the way that, say, Mad Men did; that prevents the occasional exception from feeling too gimmicky.
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Monroe and Presley, while equally committed to craft and functionalism, are markedly more traditionalist — Presley in the details and plot twists she brings to realist anecdotes of class struggle, Monroe in her marvelously streamlined, violin-tinged countrypolitan style.
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Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, the latest installment in a five-movie franchise, has no shortage of truly bizarre plot twists, to the point where we're already bracing ourselves for the untitled third film (due in 2020).
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In that format, the weird, gonzo plot twists that caused so many weekly viewers to throw up their hands in frustration were reduced from a series of jarring potholes to a bunch of minor bumps in the road.
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A creative powerhouse will pass into the hands of a regulated monolith that lays copper in the ground and has a quarter of a million staff, none of whom gets paid to discuss plot twists and dolly shots.
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Washington (CNN)While the West Wing continues to be a hotbed of drama and plot-twists, over in the East Wing, the first lady is not only staying above the fray -- she's tired of being tied to it.
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But it has its own pleasures, with some fun plot twists in each episode and a growing ability to balance Jessica's day-to-day life in the mayor's office with the harsher realities of Chicago politics in 2019.
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The show accomplished this through a series of plot twists that should have felt forced given how little time we've spent getting to know the members of Ezekiel's Kingdom — where Morgan (Lennie James) ironically went to avoid violence.
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Dizzying plot twists and multiple surprise endings are this author's stock in trade, but she warms them up by establishing the close friendship between Sadie Loman, of the real-estate-owning Lomans, and Avery Greer, a rebellious townie.
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A more Ceirsei Lannister-bent story, with more windy plot twists than an episode of Game of Thrones, also lays claim to the dessert's origin story: Life and death stakes combined with a Great British Bake Off turn.
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Read more: Game of Thrones season 26 finale: 28 winners and 27 losers from "The Winds of Winter" Why it matters: Game of Thrones is all about serving up long-awaited narrative payoffs, but only alongside painful plot twists.
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Too many shows in the past decade, having learned the wrong lessons from Joss Whedon, head straight for grim plot twists and deep angst without first taking the time to develop characters and situations that viewers actually care about.
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That said, there's plenty here to occupy an inquisitive mind for at least 10 hours, provided you're the sort of gamer who treasures replay value and discovering all the possible plot twists in a branching and somewhat randomized narrative.
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Marwyn revealed to Sam that he's currently writing a book about the recent history of Westeros — and coincidentally, it sounds like it'll cover all the plot twists we've seen in a certain TV show (and long-gestating book series).
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But in truth, in all but the steadiest hands, too much heady stuff tends to gum up the works in films that are mainly meant to showcase cool stunts and improbable plot twists, which this film has in spades.
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Dame Agatha happens to figure tangentially in this uncommonly clever whodunit, which makes plentiful references to her books, plot twists, settings and even the 11 days in 1926 when she inexplicably disappeared — all while coming across as madly original.
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While the "Game of Thrones" season six finale was packed with major deaths, plot twists, and satisfying moments, there was one smaller detail that some eagle-eyed fans picked up on when Sam went to the Citadel in Oldtown.
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The sprawling, interconnected storylines of Game of Thrones can sometimes be confusing for even the most dedicated viewer, so it's reassuring to know that sometimes the cast struggles to keep up with the plot twists just as much as we do.
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Ace Attorney was designed as a portable game, and it's best experienced that way, as if you were playing through a great crime novel — one that involves ancient spirits, clueless judges, and a never-ending supply of inexplicable plot twists.
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The world's most-watched soap opera, The Bold and the Beautiful, turns 30 this year, and PEOPLE is helping Forrester fans celebrate with a a family album of shocking plot twists, runway catfights and lots and lots and lots of weddings.
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But I know I can't be alone in thinking that there should be a small shred of etiquette and empathy when talking about TV's most shocking plot twists, so I reached out to my fellow R29ers to get their thoughts.
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Nevertheless, its most admirable qualities have increasingly been overshadowed by its more distasteful ones -- not merely in demonstrating just how brutal humanity can be, but by toying with its audience, dangling plot twists the way somebody plays with a kitten.
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Plot twists and surprises aside, this is in many ways a pretty standard slasher-in-the-woods story, and it can use every unique signifier it can get, from the central couple to the memorable performances to the moody musical interludes.
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And because Sachs never cheats—there are no convoluted plot twists for the sake of cheap dramatic irony—his film's lifelike flow from scene to scene builds to an ending that, really, we should have known was coming all along.
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For those who come to "The Tunnel" fresh, the story is still intriguing and amusingly outré, but there's less of a sense of urgency in the direction, which makes some of the more outlandish plot twists more difficult to gloss over.
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The second season of this music business melodrama, which wraps up May 18, finds it routinely topping the weekly ratings, suggesting the show could have staying power despite — or perhaps because of — its dizzying number of plot twists each episode.
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While most TV shows these days seem to spiral into absurdity with plot twists that are unpredictable only because they are nonsensical, Westworld risks having its mysteries easily solved in exchange for having them enhance the show's mythology and philosophy.
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An interspecies separated-at-birth story with plot twists and a happy ending, "Stellaluna" by Janell Cannon shows the joy and freedom felt when someone — in this case a bat raised by a family of birds — is allowed to be herself.
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"Some people don't really care how the book is written, and they just care about plot, so they like a lot of excitement, they like a lot of plot twists, they like maybe danger, almost like watching a movie," Lyall says.
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O.K. The extravagant melodrama of "Somewhere Between" can be traced to its source: "God's Gift: 14 Days," a 2014 South Korean series that has an abundance of the hair-raising plot twists that characterize that country's internationally popular TV dramas.
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After months of debating theories, plot twists, and different characters' storylines, all the fans who showed up for the final night of the Game of Thrones Live Concert Experience tour could agree on one thing: their affinity for the show's music.
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The general fear was that the show had moved away from the more compelling stories of its first two seasons and gone off the rails in favor of highly implausible plot twists that did nothing much for the overall narrative.
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Politics in the Trump era is a series of fascinating human dramas, featuring a larger-than-life celebrity and veteran television personality in the starring role and replete with more plot twists, backstabbing, striking revelations, and strange reversals than any prestige cable series.
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Arrival is the definition of a crowd-pleaser: optimistic about humanity, creative about portraying alien spaceships, semi-interested in romance, and full of brain-bending plot twists your younger brother can feel free to declare "[eyeroll] so obvious" while secretly being impressed.
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More than 50 protesters were detained by police on Monday following a tightly choreographed demonstration at an access point to the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, where the Democratic National Convention has been consumed by a series of roiling plot twists and turns.
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The creators and writers divided the season and its story into disparate pieces, and crammed them so full of flashy plot twists and reveals that the series rarely reached beyond hammering home its core conceit: that war is bad, and morals are good.
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For the visit, Ms. Sprouse created an entire curriculum of activities, including read-alouds, coloring and a children's writers workshop led by Ms. Milchman that invited the 4- and 5-year-olds to come up with characters and plot twists and turns.
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In addition to new hook-ups and plot twists, the show is also heavy on cameos from YouTube stars, B-level names, and an array of other semi-famous people, making it a one-stop shop to fulfill all your cheesy Hollywood desires.
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The last time Ms. McDonald was on Broadway, in the 2016 musical "Shuffle Along," the production coincided with one of those major moments in life that she and her husband, the actor Will Swenson, jokingly call "plot twists": Unexpectedly, she was pregnant.
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The opposing sides live in such close quarters, and with so much shared history, that wives, children, cousins and girlfriends get caught up in the danger in believable ways, without the manufactured plot twists American dramas employ to put family members in jeopardy.
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After all the many plot twists, violent murders, and general mayhem of Westworld you would be excused for having absolutely no idea why Bernard is suffering from hand tremors, time slippage, and vague blindness, and possibly even worse symptoms at the start of season 2.
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Which makes it more important than ever to point out that there's more to television than plot, or plot twists; there's more to character than dialogue; there's more to acting than line readings; there's more to narrative fiction than figuring out what comes next.
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"The Trump Show," which has produced two seasons' worth of epic cliffhangers and plot twists, is getting a competitor: "The Comey Show," which is scheduled to run for at least five weeks, and will needle and gall President Trump amid global, legal and political crises.
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The plot twists and turns, but the heart of the story is the relationship between Jamie McAllan (Garrett Hedlund) and Ronsel Jackson (Jason Mitchell), combat veterans who return home only to be reminded that their friendship doesn't bode well in the Jim Crow era.
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Many of them had just come from shows themselves and were there to celebrate a romance that had all the plot twists of a Broadway love story: a reluctant bride, a meddling family and a commotion at the end that led to a proposal.
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Again and again, Trump's White House has looked for all the world like one giant reality show -- with the same strong personalities, rivalries, back-biting and surprise plot twists that have made watching other people live their lives one of our culture's favorite pastimes.
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Despite some quibbles, your Original Content podcast hosts agree that the show manages to balance these different elements effectively, with surprising plot twists, creepy visuals and a particularly compelling sibling relationship between the two teenaged Lockes, Tyler (played by Connor Jessup) and Kinsey (Emilia Jones).
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As episodes pass, the plot twists become increasingly hard to buy, since Roper makes such clumsy errors in judgment—like ignoring "secret" lovers who are practically making "let's do it" finger gestures—that he comes across as less Dr. No and more Mr. Magoo.
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In the end, through a series of highly implausible plot twists (let's just say it involves asking a lot from electricity), Troy and Gabriella fall in love, win the leads in the school play, and Troy gets to lead the basketball team to victory!
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One of the standout real-life plot twists happened when his nephew and neighbor, Brendan Dassey, entered the picture and, as portrayed in the documentary, appeared to be coerced into what many believe was a completely fictional confession as an accomplice to the murder of Teresa Halbach.
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In its fourth season – second on Netflix – Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones' twisted reflection of our society works like a well-oiled machine; they're adept at quick world building, judicious with plot twists, and clearly full of endless ideas on how technology may unravel us yet.
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Director Gore Verbinski (Pirates of the Caribbean, The Ring) uses a decadent 146-minute runtime to thread together Cronenbergian body horror, universal movie monster villainy, a coffee table book's worth of beautiful photography, and a handful of plot twists that are at once bizarre and predictable.
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And yet, after Macron takes the oath of office inside the ornate Elysée Palace next Monday, the years ahead could hold far more difficult and complicated plot twists than those heroic tales suggest—challenges that will likely make his past five months of campaigning seem simple.
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One of the most-discussed plot twists in recent advertising has been the pivot of Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) brands to linear TV. These data-driven, digital-first players are expanding well beyond Facebook and Instagram—and becoming serious players on the largest traditional medium in advertising.
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In a lot of ways, Into The Water follows the formula of The Girl on the Train (and of the mystery thriller genre as a whole, for that matter): it features multiple perspectives, narrators with debatable reliability, mysteries nested in mysteries, and 11th hour plot twists.
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Plot twists, denouements and sometimes an entire episode can seep out beforehand, making for markets that unfairly favor those in the know at the expense of fans and aficionados putting down money based on their hunches or their own studied analysis of what might lie ahead.
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Full of frenzied plot twists, "The Final Problem" closed out the season and maybe the series with an episode that — if it really is the last — feels like a huge anticlimax that substitutes implausible drama and showiness for meaningful character development and any kind of narrative payoff.
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Lindbergh's reign is resolved (brilliantly or cheaply or a bit of both, depending on your tolerance for clever plot twists) by something I can't spoil — but it will raise eyebrows, especially of those who have speculated in recent weeks that the Russians might "have something" on Trump.
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But that runs into a larger overarching problem with The Crimes of Grindelwald, which is that it frequently opts for disrupting the world we know in the name of plot twists that don't seem to yield larger payoffs or contribute to the overall development of the story.
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By the time you get to the last third of the story, you feel pulled in numerous directions, learning about new characters (oh hi there, burgeoning YA star Alex Wolff) and extremely random plot twists that come out of nowhere and, as a result, lose all potential surprise factor.
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I realized this while watching the first few episodes of season two, which premieres Wednesday, January 25: With its kicky, pulpy blend of quippy dialogue, pop culture references, continual inventiveness, and deeply painful plot twists, the show feels like some long-lost second cousin of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
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Unlike Martin Compston, who plays a comparable character in "Line of Duty," or Lennie James, who was excellent as the villain in that show's first season, Madden doesn't do enough to distract us when Mercurio's plot twists veer from reality or his characters refuse to act like rational humans.
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You can sort of see where this is going from there, but creator April Blair shows a refreshing willingness to keep the story moving throughout the first three episodes, unveiling a healthy dollop of plot twists and soapiness, while also giving her characters a whole lot of heart.
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What matters more to Ms. Bigelow and Mr. Boal than plot twists or surprises — and to an audience torn between the urge to lean in and the desire to look away — is the minute-by-minute unspooling of accident, error and intentional evil that produced a tragic result.
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Hawley, of course, is the mastermind behind FX's event series Fargo, which managed to retain the crime-noir-but-quirky sensibility of the beloved Coen brothers film, struck out on a daring path all its own, then somehow circled back in cleverly conceived plot twists that evoked the original 1996 movie.
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The common criticism of Marvel Studios is that its overarching mission — make a whole bunch of films that occupy the same universe and that can feature crossovers and plot twists that impact other movies — means that filmmakers aren't allowed to put much of a personal stamp on the company's films.
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However, the number one thing that my friends talk about aren't the plot twists of Infinity War, nor the difficulty of the math test on Tuesday, but whether or not they should buy a skin for their character in Fortnite to look decent enough when they're firing at another player.
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The story line has included plot twists worthy of the operas Giuliani so loves: revelations of the mayor's prostate cancer; his decision not to run for the U.S. Senate against Hillary Clinton; his wife's public accusations of infidelity; and his matter-of-fact squiring of Nathan around town as de facto first lady.
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But my guess is that TV audiences are too conditioned to think of "the big show" as something that's hour-long and full of dark plot twists at this point to anoint a comedy "the one show everybody has to watch," even though TV half-hours are generally stronger than TV hours right now.
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Riverdale, the CW's dark twist on Archie comics, has already garnered a huge fanbase thanks to its plot twists, nostalgia casting, and catchy tunes, but thanks to Netflix, a whole new audience can experience it (and die-hard fans can binge-watch it all over again) without commercials or having to wait for weekly installments.
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Comparatively, the most recent season was a Seamless order that accidentally spilled all over the bag on the way to your apartment, with plot twists and narrative themes—baby-kidnapping, domestic violence, red-state racism, ethically questionable sports medication, mens' rights activism—thrown into the show's fray with little regard for cohesion or structure.
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Other characters who died shortly after fleeting happiness: - Robb, Talisa, and Catelyn Stark- Ygritte- Oberyn Martell- Mycah, the butcher's boy- That slave owner in Astapor who got burned to a crisp Ever since the show moved past George R.R. Martin's books, Game of Thrones has gotten heavy-handed with the foreshadowing, which diminishes the effect of major plot twists.
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His experience on "The Young and the Restless" in the mid-1970s may have prepared him for the plot twists and surprises of the soap-opera spoof "Soap"; beginning in 1978, during the show's second season, he played Dutch Leitner, a dimwitted criminal who helped Chester Tate, the philandering head of the wealthy Tate family, escape from prison.
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But following the acid trip of hallucinogenic confusion, fake memories, and melodramatic plot twists that the rest of "The Final Problem" offers, the episode feels like window dressing on a completely different story — the haunted, lonely opium dream of three Holmes children who will never be fully able to tap into different, more authentic versions of themselves.
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For nearly 50 years after his father died in 1973, Mr. Tolkien worked to keep alive the world he had created in "The Hobbit" (1937) and "The Lord of the Rings" (20123) — the spiders of Mirkwood, the Eye of Mordor, the elves of Rivendell and thousands of pages' worth of other characters, places and plot twists.
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ABC, meanwhile, with "Scandal" barreling toward its series finale and "How to Get Away With Murder" having gotten away with ridiculous plot twists long enough, can hopefully break out of the mold the network has occupied, where even its non-Rhimes-produced dramas often feel as if they're trying to replicate the appeal of those series.
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"Game of Thrones": With just under two months to go before HBO releases the eighth and final season of its biggest-ever hit, The Times is rolling out a preseason guide to rewatching the first seven seasons, with a deep dive into plot twists and themes you might have forgotten and tributes to the characters loved and lost.
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Now that HBO's Game of Thrones has outpaced the George R. R. Martin novels on which it is based, readers and TV viewers are finally on a level playing field, with all of us equally oblivious to the plot twists ahead in Season 7 (and, if we're lucky, maybe even Season 8, which is set to be the fantasy saga's last).
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Written by Jack Thorne, based on a story by J.K. Rowling, John Tiffany and Thorne, it has plenty of plot twists, stage magic and shiver-inducing effects, and has been widely acclaimed; it won the Olivier Award for best new play in London, where it opened in 2016, and the Tony Award for best new play on Broadway, where it opened last year.
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Where the other books in the series are high on character turns and big plot twists — at least so far — Feast is largely a thematic exploration of the cost of war on a medieval society, on the way the whims of the rich trample the lives of the poor, and on the way endless cycles of vengeance have a way of permeating themselves throughout a culture.
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While I'll always be slightly disappointed the series isn't the rabble-rousing indictment of capitalism it clearly wants to be, season two has been a lot of fun, thanks to some killer plot twists, the endless maneuvering of the two main characters, the presence of the always amazing Maggie Siff, and a genuinely groundbreaking performance by Asia Kate Dillon, the first gender nonbinary actor in a major role on television.
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But it also has fun with characters trying on different guises — a nice suit Warden Caputo (Nick Sandow) brought to the prison flits from character to character, and still others put on guard uniforms, while a different character decides to hide out in the prison as an inmate, rather than the MCC employee she is — and with the sort of convoluted, coincidental plot twists that marked many of Shakespeare's plays.
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Rating The series was created by Jessica Goldberg, a playwright who's used to creating stories in a medium where long scenes are standard and it's common to spend lots of time teasing out character motivations, in contrast to the relatively quick pace of TV. It also hails from executive producer Jason Katims, whose credits include Friday Night Lights and Parenthood, neither of which was known for breakneck storytelling or big plot twists.
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Black History 2019 contained plot twists that wove together politics, culture, law enforcement and more into a dizzying national reckoning: politicians in blackface, a white actor who confessed to murderous racist impulses, a black actor who seemingly faked his own hate crime, films about race touching off a firestorm at the Oscars and white fragility about confronting racism unfolding in real-time in the House of Representatives during the Michael Cohen hearing.
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And it's an especially heavy lift with a show that can be as emotionally harrowing as The Americans, which centers on KGB spies pretending to be a normal American couple in early '80s Washington, DC. The series features all the plot twists and shocking moments you'd expect from a spy drama, but it's mostly a small-scale story of two people trying to advance their cause while staying true to each other and themselves.
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Dan Callahan, TheWrap A jaunt through Russia and a chase over ice are far less interesting, and the plot twists in The Fate of the Furious suggest the kind of games that 11-year-old boys put together on the playground during recess, with women in peril and so many different parts for everyone to play that you begin to lose track of who everybody is and who they are supposed to be to each other.
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The defense secretary's decision to quit Thursday was a warning that will ring through history about an impulsive President who spurns advice, disdains America's friends and proudly repudiates the codes of US leadership that have endured since World War II. Mattis stopped Washington in its tracks -- even after months of stunning plot twists in Donald Trump's presidency, and as stock markets plunge, a legal net tightens around the White House and the government is about to shut down.
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Much like the favorite joke of modern feminism that to get a good "beach body" is to lie, quite simply, prostrate on the beach, I'm of the mind that "beach reads" are a dull conspiracy by airport bookshops—there are no good reasons to believe that romance books or murder mysteries pair with downtime better than, say, literally any other, better book, unless I've overlooked some crucial study that says plot twists are conducive to a tan.
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