The Newsroom: Sorkin's HBO Joint

I've been told there was a musical number

at a wake

at least neal came out looking ok

*takes down website for entire week*

omg the musical number.

sorkin shows are the sound of boomers slowly disintegrating and their bonedust fluttering into the breeze

*takes down website for entire week*

― gr8080, Monday, December 15, 2014 10:10 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ha ha

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.

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.

I love that this didn't even wind up producing as many episodes as Ken Finkleman's The Newsroom.

some dude otm. olivia munn really came out of this show surprisingly well.

i'm still kinda confused what people were ever so mad at her about.

it's about ethics in fictional journalism

Haven't read thread but this is good at an ally mcbeal level and i am in love with mac

how far in are you

mostly I just need to know if you've gotten to the bin laden scene

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

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

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

Absolutely the worst thing to ever air on HBO, including Arli$$.

As they say, "One man's Mede is another man's Persian."

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

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

sorkin is lame is how i break it down to an extent