Given the role in which Simon himself has lately been cast by critics and viewers, expectations for "Treme" couldn't be higher.
Joining the architects was an equally stellar cast of critics, philosophers and scholars, many of them influenced by the work of Jacques Derrida and other philosophers of the French post-structuralist school.
"We cast the critics aside and fought for our country," said Dimitris Salpingidis, who said almost exactly the same thing after Greece reached the second stage at Russia's expense in Euro 2012.
If he was honest about the debate over torture, he'd cast the critics of Jack Bauer as the heroes of the show, and they would be the stand-up military men, the proud FBI agents, and the lawyers inside and outside the government who have risked their careers to say that as a country, we're better than this.
In the late 1990's, in the so-called Nazi Gold affair, Switzerland and its banks were cast by critics as Holocaust profiteers, forcing the country into a painful reappraisal of its self-perception as a plucky nation that kept Hitler at bay by its doughty military resolve.
Yet the mere threat of a protest seemed to get some fans thinking, even as the team appeared to fall in line with the conciliatory wishes of their quarterback, Russell Wilson, who has been cast by critics as Jesus to Kaepernick's Judas.
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This led to some unhappiness from the cast and critics, most notably Duchovny and Gillian Anderson.
This is not the newbie cast that critics were fretting about a year ago.
Because of its emphasis upon the teenage cast, some critics have compared the film to the slasher films that were rising in popularity at that time.
