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He has won acclaim for fiction about Reagan and Goldwater.

Robert Downey Jr. and Brittany Bellizeare in ‘McNeal,’ at the Vivian Beaumont.

You better believe someones polishing a gun.

Its all in the shape of a serious drama, yet it has no grip, no immediacy.

I just want to understand it, because its coming.

An LLMs cognition issimply differentfrom a humans.

And buried in a corner of streaming television, there isMrs.

Well, theres an issue of rendering there, too.

Then, right at the end, Akhtar has AI step into the role of Shakespeare himself.

I have sometimes felt when I see the language being generated.

I want the audience to have that experience.

Theres no there there: This is just gunk.

McNealis at Lincoln Center Theater.

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