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Michiko Kakutani writes in the New York Times that although Gates "delineates his characters' predicaments with a pitch-perfect ear," the collection suffers when "a certain authorial smugness creeps into the narration," which leaves the reader "feeling superior to his characters, irritated with their solipsistic mind games and self-inflicted wounds."
(Gavrilets laments that the theoretical work suffers from domination by simulation rather than analysis, so that it is often hard to draw general conclusions from models that use different assumptions, but he nevertheless draws some fairly strong conclusions, as I note below.)
The critics agree that the movie suffers when the initially interesting conception falls apart.
I am not persuaded that a speaker who offends a hearer's sensibilities directly suffers loss of face: loss of face could come about only by some retaliatory action of the hearer's.
This series suffers from two related problems.