The Newsroom

[CSL]

been "known of" for some time but a trailer has just been released. I'd watch an Aaron Sorkin show about, well anything so I've been waiting for this, not disappointed with "how it looks". hot cast also

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[CSL]

started Sunday just gone, thought the first episode was great. Jeff Daniels killed it

[VSG]

Looks very nice.

[The Destroyer]

Reviews apparently haven't been great, but I'll still be checking it out when it appears on Sky Atlantic in July. Trailers seem pretty good.

[Requiem]

Was gonna post about this actually.

Watched the first episode and I honestly LOVED it.

First 8 minutes were a fucking brilliant introduction to the series.

[CSL]

Reviews apparently haven't been great, but I'll still be checking it out when it appears on Sky Atlantic in July. Trailers seem pretty good.

yeah, saw some of them and the consensus seems to be that it gets worse as it goes in terms of the first few episodes. We'll see. Wouldn't surprise me if it's critics being critics, pouncing on the "idealism" or it being unrealistic and ignoring that that's essentially what the show is supposed to be, "what if" idealism ala The West Wing. Or it could just become awful as it goes on.

[What Would Kevin Do?]

Watched it and loved the first episode. We'll see where it goes from here, but the dialogue is amazing.

[Tazz Dan]

I enjoyed the first episode, pretty much what WWKD said really.

[Swiss Ultimate]

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[Blitz]

I dug it. Started a bit slow, but it certainly picked up.

Made me miss Studio 60 though. Loved that show :(

[Triple Naitch]

Gonna watch this during the weekend.

Studio 60 lost me early. How can you be a show about a comedy show that isn't funny?

[Blitz]

...easily?

[St. Jimmy]

best new show on TV.

[loopydate]

Aaron Sorkin could adapt the phone book, and it'd be the best thing on TV.

[Blitz]

Tonight's ep was hot. Way more slapsticky than last week, but I got into the characters more.

[Tazz Dan]

Anybody else watching season 2?

[Lock Jaw]

Yup. On the whole not enjoying it as much as season 1, but still good.

[Tazz Dan]

Yeah, I'm kinda of the same mindset.

[Lock Jaw]

I like the Genoa storyline, but I miss the "grounded in real events" feel.

Also, I know some people like it better this way, but I liked how the characters were all... I dunno... "wackier" on the first season.

Loved Mac in the first season and kind of had a crush on her. This one, she is just there and super serious most of the time.

[loopydate]

Season 2 got off to a really slow start for me. Now that we're getting the payoff from Genoa, it's a lot more enjoyable. Season 1 was still way better/more fun, though.

[Asmo]

I enjoyed Season 01 in parts. Standout character is Sloan Sabbith. Swoon.
Haven't seen any of Season 02 yet. How's Olivia Munn in it?

[loopydate]

Still the best part.

[Lock Jaw]

She is probably the closest to being as good as they were in season 1.

[Blitz]

I'm pretty close to hate-watching it at this point. Fairly entertaining, but nearly all the characters are extraordinarily punchable about 75% of the time.

[RP]

Pretty obvious Don bought Sloans book.

[RP]

The guy playing Don Keefer is the absolute star of the show.

[Sepholio]

Indeed he is.

[Blitz]

The guy playing Don Keefer is the absolute star of the show.
Yep

[loopydate]

Season finale was excellent. Reminded me a lot of the end of Sports Night. Which makes sense, I guess, since the really slow draggy shit at the beginning of this season reminded me of the excruciatingly bad "dating plan" shit from the start of SN's second season.

[Lock Jaw]

Yeah, good finale.

Loved Reese Lansing in it.

[RP]

Like the entire show in general, I had quite a few issues with the finale, yet still watched and for some reason, enjoyed. More on this later tonight.

[Blitz]

Remember when this show had villains?

Anyways, after watching the finale, I hope the show comes back next year, except it's called the Don Keefer Show and it's nothing but Don Keefer having to deal with people inferior to him.

[RP]

The best part about the Keefer character, to your villain point, is that the first 5 eps or so, you would think Keefer was going to be a bad guy, but if I remember correctly, Maggie broke his heart. Don Keefer is just so fucking cool, he took it like a champ. Jim probably would of taken it like a chump. Keefer was amazing in the Sloan nudie photos episode. Probably the best ep of The Newsroom too. On a show that had a lot of tapid fire dialog, Thomas Sadoski is easily the best at it. His scenes with Munn in the nudie pic ep were fantastically acted. Easily one of my favorite characters on tv right now.

Few issues here. First of all, the marriage proposal seemed rushed and thrown together at the last minute. It's going to take away the Will and Mac not forgiving dynamic, which works well on this show. The only bid thing that might happen is more Don Keefer. On second thought. How about Will and Mac just honey moon for season 3. Let Don be the new anchor.

The first part of of this finale teased at Will blowing up. Never really happened at all.

Reece being made a cool by Charlie, when he decided to do the right thing, kind of annoyed me.

Jim has been completely dumbed down this season. He really seems like an idiot doing an important job.

They could of saved the Maggie and her friend talk for next season, if for any reason, just so we can hear the conversation and not just see them talk.

I think my biggest issue is that Sorkin spent this whole season making Sloan to be this stronger, independent woman and then he gives everyone the middle finger in the last ep by having Will shit all over her and put clown shoes on her. And the worst part was that Munn had to act the part comically. It basically killed her professional side of her character.

Come to think of it as I'm writing this. The end of this season really make me think they ( sorkin, hbo ) were not getting renewed for a third season and that's why they rushed into wrapping things up.

[CSL]

only 3 episodes left ever :(

[VSG]

I know :'(

[Lock Jaw]

Seems like way too few episodes to wrap everything up....

Unless it ends with the ACN building exploding.

[owenbrown]

only 3 episodes left ever :(

that's it?! :wtf:

[Destor]

Love this show :'(

[Lock Jaw]

You F'ing kidding me.... DVRed it to watch after the PPV.... but the recording ends before the show does....

Ok... found a torrent.... downloading the entire ep just so I can see the last few minutes or however more it goes....

[Lock Jaw]

Ok. Finished it. Pretty "eh" finale. Season was too short... felt like they rushed everything last episode and then the finale was just a "retrospective" for the most part.

Really feel like there should be another season, though....

[VSG]

Yeah really needed more episodes to round off the storylines. The HR rep looking into the inter-office relationship one for example had a pretty "meh" finish.

[Destor]

I feel like the season finale was last week and this week they tied up loose ends.

Great show. However the first ep was far and away the best it ever was.

[Lock Jaw]

I liked the Bin Laden episode from the first season....

[Destor]

I liked the whole run, but i don't feel like it ever matched its debut.

[VSG]

So many things still I wish had been expanded on. The EPA official's encounter with Maggie on the train was one of the highlights of this season for me, and when the interview was done I felt let down again. Oh well, you do what you can with so few episodes.