Korman phoned Salke, calling the script "remarkable" and praising Killen: "...for a guy who has never written a procedural show in his life", he was "making two cases work".
The remarkable thing that the script allows him to do is claw back some humanity from a terribly unpromising start.
"I called Jen and said: 'I'm telling you, this script is remarkable.
The source for much of the current epidemic of paranoia is no doubt the Glenn Beck Show on Fox News, which follows the Hofstadter script with remarkable faithfulness.
Korman phoned Salke, and stated that the script was "remarkable", and praised Killen claiming that "for a guy who has never written a procedural show in his life", he is "making two cases work".
Rajeev Masand of CNN-IBN argued that the true power of the film lies in its "remarkable, rooted, rock-solid script which provides the landscape for such an emotionally engaging, heart-warming experience".
The script brings this remarkable detail to our attention for the sole purpose, it seems, of prompting solemn applause (part of the relentless P.R. effort to rehab his image as a good guy).
In his review, Ben Brantley writes that Mr. McNally's drama "is not, by even a generous reckoning, a very good play," yet Ms. Daly gives a "remarkable performance" that transforms the script into "one of the most haunting portraits" of life after stardom.
In the Melian dialogue of Book V — where the Athenians assert that might makes right and that resistance is futile, while the hopelessly outnumbered Melians are forced to put their trust in fate — the author gives his text a remarkable physical resemblance to the script of a play, with the names of the "characters" abbreviated before their respective speeches.
Even more remarkable, given how good the script is, is the fact that Payne has been sitting on the project for nine years.
