Newtonwasafinicky, neurotic, off-scale brilliant characterwhoseemedable to hold a problem in his mind, neither sleepingnoreating, "thinking on it continually," hesaid, until he'dsolved it.
But the texts don't mesh, and the interpolated situations (women are jailed and beaten) and the fragments of character development (Mary Magdalene is a suicidal neurotic, Martha a passionate do-gooder) read more like random bits of political correctness and sexual politics than organic storytelling.
The reports were encouraged by his character in his self-titled sitcom, a neurotic New York bachelor, always avoiding marriage after somehow finding a fatal flaw in his girlfriends.