The Newsroom

[clocker]

Got halfway through the 4th episode, realized I was bored shitless and have officially stopped caring about The Newsroom.
The characters all seem to be stuck at about junior high school level, not a real adult to be found.

Too bad.

[IdolEyes787]

Got halfway through the 4th episode, realized I was bored shitless and have officially stopped caring about The Newsroom.
The characters all seem to be stuck at about junior high school level, not a real adult to be found.

Too bad.

(I thought) There was considerable payoff in the third act as we come to learn that a lot of strings were being pulled.

Also I think they are going for Tracey/Hepburn with the main characters but the problem is that they are also going the same route with the secondary ones.

[clocker]

Oh god, does this mean I have to finish it?

I guess my complaint du jour is how convenient the secondary characters are...
McAvoy is complaining about lax SEC oversight and BAM!, the producers boyfriend is a SEC lawyer.
McAvoy rants about gun laws/lies and HARK! his next date has a gun in her purse.

I don't doubt that if he bitches about computers, one of the staff will turn out to be a Bishop.

The Good Wife is a million times better, any one of its supporting characters is more fully developed and interesting than the leads of The Newsroom.

[IdolEyes787]

Oh god, does this mean I have to finish it?

No.

[clocker]

Well I'm going to anyway.

[IdolEyes787]

Sort of pointless to have asked my permission not to then wasn't it?

[manker]

Note to Mary:
If the clockster had followed my lead in foregoing question marks when employing rhetoric, then Idol wouldn't have pursed his lips and clutched his handbag.

I tell you all; It's the way of the future.

[mjmacky]

Episode 04
I'm mixed, and I almost felt the show slipping away from me around the middle, despite the kind of resonant summary about meeting new women, but it wrapped up nicely. Here's where I'm mixed. I don't know if I'm actually supposed to feel impressed by the "news program" they put on. Their broadcast begins to increasingly resemble airings of the Daily Show, with the jokes removed and a bit of the sarcasm retained. The episode, and overall the show, strongly follows the relationships between the characters but draws it out. I think I'm sort of getting to appreciate that for one reason. The revelation and mingling with the unseen plot really paid off, and the way the show drops off all of the interpersonal drama really injects excitement into the breaking news scenario with which they finished. It's definitely enough to keep me watching, I've seen enough shows where I wobble back and forth with my judgment just to find myself enjoying it at the end.

With that, I'll avoid any further speculation and takes on the show unless I really start to hate it and drop it, in which case I'll come in here and rant like a grumpy bastard and tell everyone what else they should be watching.

P.S. Not a dig on clocker, I do do that. That is, telling people what would be better for them. What, did you think you had a patent on it or something?

P.P.S. Yes, misshapen rhetorical.

[clocker]

So, apparently Aaron Sorkin has fired the entire writing staff (save an ex-girlfriend) and will regroup for season two (show has already been renewed).
Seems like a weird deal to me because Sorkin claims most of the writing credits and minimizes the contributions of the staff, so why are they axed if he's unhappy with the show?
I imagine that most of season one is either already filmed or fairly locked in already, it'll be interesting to see the product that lead to this mass extinction.

On a side note, I watched the first ep of Political Animals and it was wretched.

[mjmacky]

On a side note, I watched the first ep of Political Animals and it was wretched.

I felt that way after seeing one clip.