The rest of the week hasn't been a letdown either: on Wednesday evening the agency International Creative Management, which represents Ms. Egan, said that the novel, a sprawling series of stories about interlocking characters connected to the San Francisco punk-rock scene, has been optioned by HBO, which plans to adapt it into a television series.
The season's interlocking, character-specific episodes were supposed to come together to tell a single story from multiple angles, but it wound up feeling more like trying to read a choose-your-own-adventure novel from cover to cover.
Some thought its cinematographer, Yang Weihan, deserved recognition for the multi-level reflected images that echoed precisely its characters' interlocking solipsism.
With "Under the Dome" we swoop up again to the God's-eye view, or to the view of some equally altitudinous but less merciful entity — a panorama of interlocking stories and a huge cast of characters, many of them being used rather cruelly.
In "Love Actually," a romantic roundelay of interlocking stories, Mr. Grant repeatedly pressed Mr. Curtis to make his character more authoritative and less haplessly charming.
"Sidewalks" bobs and weaves through this geometry of interlocking triangles, punctuating dates and arguments with mock interviews, in which the characters face the camera and muse on the complexities of love, sex and fidelity.
From there, interlocking relationships took over.
"Interlocking grip," the fat one sneers.
COMPLEX, interlocking space was Paul Rudolph's specialty.
'The interlocking, but you should use whatever feels comfortable.' I try the interlocking.
