ingeniousness

The ingeniousness of “Joy of Man’s Desiring,” Hédouin’s open-air saga around Port-Royal-des-Champs, was of a different nature, and it had outstayed its welcome by the seventh hour.

Her patent not only highlights her ingeniousness; it characterizes the spirit of self-actualization held by freed Black people.

The ingeniousness of “Palace of the Drowned” derives from Mangan’s great skill in stirring up carefully calibrated doubt about everything and everyone.

Ferris’s ingeniousness, however, is more of a self-critical expansion of his own techniques than a gaze back at the canon, making his style resolutely one of a kind.

Overall, the humor and accessible sci-fi tropes, and the ingeniousness of the fanciful yet thematically relevant TV show conceits, make “Interstellar Ghost Hour” an intriguing, singular exploration of love, loss and aging.