The Newsroom: Sorkin's HBO Joint

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=The+most+honest+three+and+a+half+minutes+ever+televised

lol barf

(german subtitled)

i was trying to find the version that was forwarded to me (as a 6 Meg .wmv attachment) by my dickhead conservative uncle, who seems unaware that there is an internet outside of his email inbox.

here are screencaps of the last few seconds of the one he sent:

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i just....

aaron sorkin is like having an older family member who is kind of incorrigible and wrong about a lot of things but still really funny and not really that wrong about a lot of other things

whereas e.g. mad men is like your little brother doing a women's studies degree and telling you how much he gets laid

Never saw this, but I see Sam Waterston wearing a bow tie in a clip up above. Is that basically the gist of it: bow ties = authenticity?

haha thomp otm

bow ties obv. = experience

oh man, the turn to the "oh we used to be the greatest country" with the schmaltzy piano underneath, barf barf barf

this is *horrible*, the idea that these are mind-blowing insights which neither token leftie nor token rightwinger can perceive, it's just cringe inducing

http://www.theonion.com/articles/terrified-newsroom-writers-nodding-heads-at-every,32028/

adam's post about the opening credits so good. I am actually really looking forward to this coming back just for its weekly dissection value. also I think in the future community college psychology classes will be taught intro philosophy classes not using the example of a man breaking a window to steal medicine for his dying wife but instead considering whether j. should disobey his housemates & illegally torrent newsroom episodes in order to educate & absorb internet message board constituents

crazy how many twitter comments yesterday mentioning how The Newsroom would use the CNN fuck up in a later season.

an irrelevant show about an irrelevant medium by an irrelevant old white dude

YOU"RE a relevant

wait wait that joke always works when s10cki does it

i saw a relevant in a zoo once.

speaking of which, new season, same bad writing. they're doing a spectacularly bad job with occupy.

aaron sorkin has heard of the red hot chili peppers

thought this was okay though. i still kinda just love it in pure comfort terms. i liked emo jim.

Some improvements, but fuck is the Occupy stuff ever tedious.

for a show about covering news well it is astonishing how wrong it gets the news

do they need to articulate their demands

it just doesn't even have basic chronology right.

lol Sorkin discovering foursquare and being all "i can use this"

also he's still grinding his axe against bloggers sheesh

oh and Will's first day as an anchor was 9/11 i mean fuck off dude

can't wait for the next episode

Yeah that 9/11 bit was astonishingly awful. I wish more people were still hatewatching, it's still so totally risible.

Other "best" bit was Maggie solemnly pawing her coffee-table book on AFRICA after messing things up with her roommate. Priceless.

The Genoa thing has potential, if only because it seems to prove some fallibility. I don't think I hate watch, even if I hate a lot of it. I still find it an enjoyable hour of television, despite all the cringing.

I mostly watch for the Jane Fonda/Chris Messina stuff though.

re: the Genoa thing, I feel like they're gonna make it so that anyone in that position would have fucked up in the same fashion.

Gukbe otm. It's ridiculously bad in places but I watch it anyway and mostly enjoy. I really hated the Willie Nelson bit tho, love Willie but it felt so schmaltzy and forced. Like he just really wanted an excuse to use that song and it didn't matter what was actually going on in the storyline.

Is Willie Nelson acting in this or it just a Willie song?

Just the song. "Always on My Mind", in keeping with Sorkin's imaginative use of music.

I bet someone is on someones mind in that scene
So glad I stopped watching this, the thread is enough for me.

Not as good as

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1v4ZLwevXAI

romneybus mutiny is very funny

also at this point in occupy its already huge in the national news and now that they still aren't covering it makes them look super dumb. also for serious there are people in remote pakistan villages who get bombed and then tweet about there being fire everywhere and then this gets picked up by no media at the time? or reporters are willing to believe such at least?

yeah that is a serious plausibility problem with the Genoa storyline.

god help me, i thought this episode was pretty funny.

"aaah aaah! i'm on fire! it burns! ouch," he tweeted

dear god this is the least articulate ows person i've seen that they wrote, like even compared to actual real inarticulate ows people.

everything else aside, smoking in your office bc you're too important for people to object seems pretty satisfying

i am looking a sad african children now did you know they are sad

why do you need this woman to tell you how to find this person who worked for this ngo in the park? the park is not that big. you can go to the park and talk to people and probably you can find this person. this is what reporters do, they find people who find people and talk to people until they get a story. they don't just harass one person over and over.

it didn't make any sense.

the way "africa" figured into this series -- very briefly, and only as a site of trauma -- seemed pretty offensive to me too.

of course that kid was gonna die. she couldn't save him... but maybe, maybe he saved her.

like her crazy eyes in the interview tho

A) huffpo sideboob jokes are always funny
B) all the information was released about the trayvon martin case for a fairly long span of time before it went national. there was no drama of rushing to download a 9-11 tape afaik.

ok this bugged me enough that i double checked. the tape came out after the first national stories, but before this was a serious news story nonetheless.

and add wikipedia to the list of things this show tries to be clever about but doesn't understand.

Lol yeah. I don't know if the show has improved significantly or if I've just gotten better at honing in on the 2 or 3 incredibly well written/performed scenes in each episode and tolerating the rest.