Already missing this show, there's nothing else in the same vein on tv.
― hobbes, Monday, 15 December 2014 05:35 (nine years ago) link
man this was such total garbage
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Monday, 15 December 2014 06:53 (nine years ago) link
lol @ a 90min finale of a show about news having abt three lines of dialogue about Mandela on his death bed and 89min of soap opera tropes
― gr8080, Monday, 15 December 2014 14:19 (nine years ago) link
I've been told there was a musical number
― The Understated Twee Hotel On A Mountain (silby), Monday, 15 December 2014 16:16 (nine years ago) link
at a wake
― Drop soap, not bombs (Ste), Monday, 15 December 2014 17:32 (nine years ago) link
at least neal came out looking ok
― celfie tucker 48 (s.clover), Tuesday, 16 December 2014 01:57 (nine years ago) link
*takes down website for entire week*
― gr8080, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 02:10 (nine years ago) link
omg the musical number.
sorkin shows are the sound of boomers slowly disintegrating and their bonedust fluttering into the breeze
― celfie tucker 48 (s.clover), Tuesday, 16 December 2014 05:28 (nine years ago) link
― gr8080, Monday, December 15, 2014 10:10 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
ha ha
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Tuesday, 16 December 2014 06:23 (nine years ago) link
Haha y'all didn't feel anything for any of these characters? neal and maggie were a little annoying, but the rest? Their corny earnestness just made them more endearing! The whole show was ridiculous but that's what made it great, enjoyment of it demanded the viewer take it less seriously than it wanted to be taken, if that makes sense.Like how was will maccavoy walking into the garage of his newly dead best friend and having an impromptu jam session on accoustic guitar with his best friends newly depressed cello playing grandson not the most entertaining thing you saw all year. Have never seen the west wing/studio 60 but the writing here seemed as sharp as his movies. charlie and sloan were some of sorkins best characters.
― hobbes, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 10:27 (nine years ago) link
the show spent so much time presuming i would FEEL FEELING about Will and Mac or goddamn Jim and Maggie that i was pleasantly surprised when Don and Sloan ended up being the most compelling relationship in the show. Lisa is still the show's MVP for her speech when she got fed up with Jim and Maggie's passive aggressive love triangle bullshit.
― some dude, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 13:27 (nine years ago) link
I love that this didn't even wind up producing as many episodes as Ken Finkleman's The Newsroom.
― Simon H., Tuesday, 16 December 2014 14:47 (nine years ago) link
some dude otm. olivia munn really came out of this show surprisingly well.
― celfie tucker 48 (s.clover), Tuesday, 16 December 2014 16:27 (nine years ago) link
i'm still kinda confused what people were ever so mad at her about.
― some dude, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 16:35 (nine years ago) link
it's about ethics in fictional journalism
― a stupid red mute juggalo (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 16 December 2014 16:38 (nine years ago) link
Haven't read thread but this is good at an ally mcbeal level and i am in love with mac
― your own personal qanon (darraghmac), Tuesday, 6 April 2021 19:03 (two years ago) link
how far in are you
― intern at pepe le pew research (Simon H.), Tuesday, 6 April 2021 20:55 (two years ago) link
mostly I just need to know if you've gotten to the bin laden scene
― intern at pepe le pew research (Simon H.), Tuesday, 6 April 2021 20:56 (two years ago) link
Ive been busy so just catching decent comedy snippets and showy dialogue and devastating silhouettes of macs blouse/skirt game but "we" have in fact blitzed through to the season 2 finale since last friday
― your own personal qanon (darraghmac), Tuesday, 6 April 2021 21:31 (two years ago) link
I recall a stretch in the second season that sort of threatened to be OK, and then they got to the college rape storyline and it was all downhill sharply from there
― intern at pepe le pew research (Simon H.), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 02:45 (two years ago) link
the 'buckle up sweetie, here's why America used to be good and now sucks' monologue should have gotten this shit cancelled after the first episode
― Joe Bombin (milo z), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 02:54 (two years ago) link
Absolutely the worst thing to ever air on HBO, including Arli$$.
As they say, "One man's Mede is another man's Persian."
― Judge Roi Behan (Aimless), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 03:01 (two years ago) link
oh man, this was actually p bad huh. the whole season is just gonna be emily mortimer's beseeching face & endless cycles of affirmation & reaffirmation & pledging & repledging of commitment to a non-specific noble idea.
schlump
Well make up yr mind which is it
― your own personal qanon (darraghmac), Thursday, 8 April 2021 00:50 (two years ago) link
Finished this, hobbes otm with summary rly
If you tried to take it as seriously as it wanted, more fool you id say.
The hamfisted smug arguments on all sides, well again if you choose to see these as things worth railing against sure youd get vexed but this was a zingy sexy sitcom about how much jeff daniels could try to get sorkin away with and i repeat macs blouse/skirt/winsome trinity is unbeaten
― flagpost fucking (darraghmac), Tuesday, 27 April 2021 01:26 (two years ago) link
sorkin is lame is how i break it down to an extent
― Draymond is "Mr Dumpy" (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 27 April 2021 03:14 (two years ago) link