Frequent digressions to a pair of subplots that eventually pay dividends (an Aussie soap producer in the prologue, a train - obsessed pervert in the body (Geoffrey Rush and Edward Herrmann, respectively)-RRB-, and one that doesn't (Julia Duffy doing her best Joan Rivers), hamstring the momentum of Intolerable Cruelty, miring its little vitriols in sentimentality and farce.
Along the way, we'll stop for
frequent digressions into the larger world of New York politics, like our fastidiously overachieving mayor or our surfeit of presidential hopefuls.
Not exact matches
At times, the levity and constant
digressions in lengthy and
frequent footnotes, are plain irritating.