It's a premise made of good intentions, but the events that put Genevieve into the play's central quandary are so contrived and the plot is so overstuffed that it's impossible to take it very seriously.
Both attended a television conference in Sydney and decided to contrive the main plot of the fourth series so the characters would end up in Australia.
While the plot seems intricately contrived, the effect is of a series of for-the-hell-of-it whammies – the most shameless show-stopping effect being a novelty nude scene highlighting the, let's say, very modern state of Dawson's mons pubis.
Still, the burgeoning mythology the show is laying out is mildly interesting, and though episodes could use a snappier pace and the plotting is sometimes contrived, the episodes themselves aren't a chore to watch.
Piling up without warning, these plot twists all seem contrived, the characters inauthentic, from Kit as a stripper-with-a-sensitive-side, to her tough, alcoholic father, to the earnest fiancé of Kit's dead sister (who is wooing Kit by the end of the book).
It's so contrived, the whole thing.
KZ contrived the analysis plan and developed analysis tools.
KP contrived the basis for development of the experimental treatment.
On July 1, probably as a result of a contrived plot, the two Egyptian legions proclaimed him emperor, followed a few days later by the legions of Syria and Judaea.
The brilliantly contrived plot is in the manner of classical farce but it leads to mayhem on a massive scale that escalates from a broken nose to an accidental killing, butchery by axe, and execution by CIA gunmen.
Everything is spelled out verbally and visually, and the contrived plot resolves everyone's problems while excluding the messiness of daily life.
