expositional

“It released us of this enormous expositional burden of explaining the road’s rules,” Schaeffer said.

Such bubbles of longing buoy most love stories, although they're employed as sparing oases between expositional expanses.

And if the new season lacks the expositional energy of the first, if it’s more muted in tone, if Sunju is not quite the ray of sunshine she was, her older self will still have occasion to say here that hers was a life well lived.

That’s still a poor excuse for failing to develop other characters, including Amanda Brugel’s Sister Anne whose role amounts to little more than an expositional prop, and Bradley Whitford’s businessman, mainly there to add some local color to all the corruption.

Perhaps the greatest sin of “Argylle,” besides dragging every expositional conversation to double length in case you were checking your texts when some vital plot point was revealed, is that it looks insanely ugly.