More interested in unpicking the broiling tensions of outback Queensland than in tying up the loose ends of his straggle-threaded whodunnit plot, writer-director Ivan Sen (who also shoots, scores and edits) goes walkabout through the minefield of contemporary Australian culture, offering an evocative snapshot of an unravelling crime scene – social, racial and economic.
As Gibran's book has no plot, writer-director Roger Allers had to construct a story, turning some of the poems into speeches by imprisoned artist-poet Mustafa (voice by Liam Neeson).
That something, in a word, was plot: "Certain writers look down their noses at plot and I think I might have been one of them until I tried it," he says, "but The Sisters Brothers changed me as a writer.
As for plot, some writers asserted that their characters "don't agree with me, sometimes demand that I change things in the story arc of whatever I'm writing".
The bandwagon of critics pulled apart its various shortcomings: no one understood the plot; the writers should be fired; Colin Farrell's moustache; how dare the series portray women as sex workers, victims and fighters.
It seems like every time the show lags or drifts back into the soporific tedium of the Dana/50-year-old boy band member love plot, the writers try to reinject enthusiasm into proceedings by producing some ludicrous twist.
Norman Mailer would preach to me that chaos is not plot, but writer Rain Johnson never had the privilege of this lecture, Time travel is the theme of writer/ director Rain Johnson's science fiction tale.
Digressions are the passionate affairs that endanger the stability of the plot the writer is married to.
The two compared the episode positively to the earlier second season episode "Blood" and wrote, "['Blood'] had a clever premise which didn't quite translate into an actual plot; here writer Mat Beck remedies that, very wisely".
