Every now and then Masters of Sex lurches into heavy-handed exposition mode, and that was definitely the case with Jane's little speech about her sister.
"You don't age, so you'll basically look the same," explains Ellen Page (in Basil Exposition mode), before teleporting the soul of Hugh Jackman's Wolverine back from the apocalyptic future to the retro-70s past in order to achieve a Terminator-style rewriting of the present.
And for whatever reason, someone decided to pull the switch that changed the movie from "heavy exposition and absurd coincidences" mode to "really fun superhero movie" mode.
Its characters are thinly sketched archetypes; its mode of exposition is the bludgeon.
This is the mode of exposition in which he seems to address the reader from a position of shared knowledge, sketching out an unfamiliar reality through hints and allusions, but never explaining it too completely.
In the second part of this treatise, however, Ibn Kammuna shifts to a Sufi mode of exposition.
Indeed, Michael has been compared to Alexander of Aphrodisias in respect both of his mode of exposition and method of interpretation.
In the Proper Mode of Exposition, Vasubandhu defends the legitimacy of the Mahāyāna Sūtras against a "Śrāvaka" opponent, and defends their figurative, Yogācāra interpretation against a Mādhyamika opponent.
Cabezon (1992), Nance (2012), Skilling (2000) and Verhagen (2005) have made important, recent contributions to the study of the Proper Mode of Exposition, and all agree that further work in this area is necessary.
It is, however, worth sketching a characteristic pattern in Vasubandhu's citation of scripture, and noting its relation to his view of scripture in the Proper Mode of Exposition.
Also in the mix: a street tough surrogate daughter for Wahlberg (Isabela Moner), a love interest (Laura Haddock) made up to resemble series ex-star Megan Fox to such a degree it feels like Bay is in his own version of Vertigo, Anthony Hopkins in full-on "spout the exposition, cash the paycheck" mode, and the quest for a mythical staff that's the designated McGuffin for this go-round.
