Sentences with phrase «of soap opera plotting»

There's an abundance of soap opera plotting: the father / son dynamic; pulpy criminal underworld twists; a therapist trying to teach communication to a group of prisoners; political backstabbing in the prison employment hierarchy.

Benford turns out to be something of a wet noodle and the subplot involving a future rift between him and his wife (Sonya Walger) smacks of soap opera plotting at its worst.

Not exact matches

The show is essentially a primetime soap opera — plots revolve around affairs, politics, religion, murder and all of the other makings of a trashy, scandalous hour of TV.

The O.C. was really only strong for its first season (well, it was at its strongest) but its self - awareness and core group of friends and family made it far more meaningful than its sunny beaches and soap opera plot lines would have you believe.

The documentary style approach avoids soap opera style melodrama, unnecessary sub plots and sentimentality to show a truthful and unbiased picture of what happened that day and it's all the more powerful for it.

But the story is a wee bit modernized, plagued by a number of themes that were cribbed from weekday afternoon soap operas rather than the heady and trying plots of Austen.

I want to know what the dome and egg are, but I can't stand another week of C rated soap opera plot.

The movie's goal is to be a distraction from life but not to engross, to escape other thoughts and feelings but not to introduce any new ones, something to kill time with as you watch the plastic characters go through the motions of the soulless soap opera like plot.

Not much of a plot, not much conflict resolution, and not much in message, Laurel Canyon is a soap opera with a twist, a turn, and then the credits roll.

The story of a stripper (played by Elizabeth Berkley, the straight - laced Jessie from Saved By The Bell) trying to make it in the ruthless world of erotic dancing, it's full of soap - opera plot, ludicrous dialogue and some of the campest acting you'll ever see.

I tried to pay close attention, but the plot is a mess of loose threads, acronyms and soap opera ridiculousness, with adequate voice acting at best, and very poor dialogue at worst.

One can't help but imagine what a different filmmaker might have made of this lurid, plot - hole - riddled soap opera with a body count (including a perfect over-the-top image of bourgeois degeneracy: murder by wine corkscrew) or the character of Rachel, a bad drunk whose list of past humiliations includes an incident in which she stumbled into the Watsons» house in an apparent attempt to kidnap their infant daughter.

Once the gears of Potter's melodramatic plot start into motion, though, it becomes little more than an over-the-top soap opera, in which current affairs and past sexual trysts are revealed, relationships falls apart, a terminal diagnosis comes to light, and the gun goes through a series of motions to wind up in the hands that held it at the movie's start.

Smart dialogue intersperses a by - committee soap opera plot in a movie made better than the sum of its shaky narrative by three terrific actors.

It would dispel the notion that Final Fantasy games are drama - filled soap operas for overexcited teenagers, but capable of using the established lore of a long - running series to create series plots, characters and games.

The satirical plot of his videos are inspired by soap operas, telenovelas and Hollywood melodramas.

While divorce is sometimes inevitable, your divorce does not need to mirror the plot of a bad soap opera.

From fresh - faced rookie to grizzled veteran, organized real estate offers more plot twists in the course of a career than your average soap opera.