suspense, drama, excitement, melodrama, skulduggery, mystery, frisson, subterfuge, skullduggery, whodunit, soap opera, twists, subplot, sordidness, mystique, thrills, treachery, tension, machinations, titillation, gamesmanship, conjecture, thriller, steaminess, nastiness, mayhem, weirdness, subtext, curiosity, salaciousness, angst, unpleasantness, riveting, rivalries, strangeness, dramatis personae, enchantment, glamor, saga, juicy, pageantry, potboiler, rancor, backstabbing, silliness, hilarity, murkiness, hoopla, romance, tawdriness, buzz, pizazz, spice, sturm und drang, craziness, lore, chicanery, whimsy, pizzazz, chatter, allure, high jinks, fascination, unpredictability, cliffhanger, shenanigans, mystification, piquancy, scuttlebutt, engrossing, deceit, dramatics, improbabilities, tomfoolery, cynicism, storyline, unsettlement, mythology, gossip, overtones, acrimony, bizarreness, psychodrama, paranoia, pomp, pizzaz, imbroglios, consternation, foreboding, spectacle, speculation, innuendo, glitz, sizzle, plotline, razzmatazz, controversy, nuttiness, sideshow, theatrics, discord, pathos, intrigues, cabals, machination, scheming, aggrandisement, diplomacy, duplicity, rivalry, appeasement, entanglement, espionage, instigation, maneuverings, spies, spying, squabble, underground, aggressions, conspiracies, aristophanic, corny, euripidean, fantasy, farcical, fletcherian, jonsonian, melodramatic, plautine, plotless, shakesperian, sixteenthcentury, terentian, wellmade, absurdist, actionless, amateurish, amusing, anarchic

grab, priestcraft, seize

byzantine, cabal, camarilla, designing, faction, junto, ruritania, squalid

eastern cottontail, interest, love affair, matter to, plot, secret plan, sylvilagus floridanus

connive, fascinate, scheme