Given the plot twists - Episode 9: “Not only is there a man in this cabinet/But the man is a midget! (Midget! Midget! Midget!)” - fan anticipation is almost absurdly high. Kelly’s record label, plans to release a DVD collection of the latest episodes, and next month IFC will present all 22 chapters consecutively, like a film. Since Monday, the IFC cable channel’s Web site, IFC.com, has been streaming one new chapter daily. Kelly has created 10 more episodes of his cult video series, which he and a cast lip-sync as he narrates the story to a lilting, and unchanging, beat, punctuated by the sound of water dripping. Kelly, the R&B star, is getting, if possible, even more complex. Now “Trapped in the Closet,” the tale of infidelity, violence and violent infidelity by R. The dramas hinged on unlikely plot devices: leg cramps, pie allergies, the surprising things one finds hiding in cupboards. But after 12 chapters the triangle was more like a lopsided octagon, with a dozen characters and as many cliffhangers. The story began simply enough: the love triangle of Sylvester, Kathy and Rufus.
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