potboiler

I thought, “You know, if we execute this well, it’ll be a really entertaining courtroom potboiler.”

“Fox” has the bones of a potboiler but is supported by the sinew of the author’s elegant structure and syntax.

Returning director Toby Haynes calls the original “a perfect script, a neat potboiler,” but describes “Into Infinity” as “maybe the most ambitious ‘Black Mirror’ episode ever made.”

It’s going to lose to the airport novel papal potboiler?

And yet it’s a very real possibility after the crowd-pleasing papal potboiler won the SAG Awards’ ensemble prize Sunday night.