By now, I expect "Mad Men" to confound me, as it already did with a couple of inexplicable plots this season (Glen Bettyy? Glen and Betty? What?
It's worth remembering one of the soaps' favorite plot twists: triumphant, often inexplicable, returns from the dead.
Her plot becomes dizzying and inexplicable when she dies, is thrown a Hawaiian-themed funeral, and ultimately comes back to life so that she can be admitted into all of the Ivy League schools.
"The Diviner's Tale" is plotted like a genre novel, complete with inexplicable manifestations and hovering intimations of evil.
Her readings of Melville are alive with detail and analysis a surprising word here, a dying cadence there, the shapes and structure of plot and meaning but she is above all conscious of the inexplicable in his work.
Half the humor comes from merely cramming every ludicrous plot twist and trope into a two-hour musical: Zack's inexplicable ability to stop time; the unlimited number of proms; moneymaking schemes involving spaghetti sauce or beauty pageants; Becky the Duck.
But Cain's plot lurches away from him, to say the least: the climax is rushed, inexplicable and preposterous, hinging on Veda's turning out to be a gifted opera singer who becomes a great soprano in a few weeks.
The title story remakes Nikolai Gogol's "The Nose" — it has a different setting, a different plot, and instead of a nose, the body part in question is an inexplicable third breast.
There was a lot of plot, and a lot of it – giving you a veil-covered eye, Jessa's inexplicable new marriage – felt inorganic.
