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Idiot plot (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Plum@lemmy.world to c/wikipedia@lemmy.world

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In literary criticism, an idiot plot is one which is "kept in motion solely by virtue of the fact that everybody involved is an idiot"