By my count the film features nine interlinked plot strands, each one more galling than the last.

It doesn't take a Federal agency to figure out how that plot strand will develop.

Many episodes feature a plot strand where Larry is requested by another character to apologise to a third party for some perceived or actual wrong.

The students' personalities are generally the same on stage and screen, although minor plot strands have been omitted.

There are enough loose plot strands to flesh out a 13-part mini-series.

This is presumably for purposes of clarity, although the multiple plot strands still aren't easy to follow.

Worse, he strains too hard at reconciling the book's multiple plot strands.

An important plot strand is also left unresolved, which leaves you feeling short changed.

It is a rare novel that deals with one single plot strand alone.

As in some of his other novels, the plot strands do not all converge neatly.