The Newsroom

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The latest ep has not given me hope for The Newsroom, the middleschool romantic entanglements continue to drag the show down.
Really, no one takes Valentine's Day seriously once past ninth grade.

As for Political Animals, well, it wasn't as overwrought as the first show but still not very good.

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Political Animals continues to suck, unless the drug addicted gay son is beheaded in the next episode, I'm done.

The Newsroom also continues to disappoint, if there must be irrelevant substories, at least get your details correct.
Last night's ep had McAvoy supposedly eating two high grade weed cookies AND downing a Vicodin.
I don't care how high a tolerance you think you have, that combination would lay out a rhino, not just make it hard to tie a Windsor knot.
I don't know what the point was, he ultimately performed well and there don't seem to be any aftereffects, so why was it featured in such a serious topic show?

And of course, the girlfriend we have never seen all season shows up just in time to reveal that her father was in the towers on 9/11.
Because, even a decade later, every single New Yorker was personally related to a victim.
That's just how it has to be.

To balance out the crap, Breaking Bad remains a superior product...it just gets better.
So there's that.