HBO: The Newsroom

[tommymtcom]

Is there a satisfying payoff? My sister used to watch it and from what she told me it sounded like there was a lot of stalling while they figured out what they were doing.

[Alex]

yeah

[Norah]

I mean, at least the final episode was better than the penultimate.

[Alex]

it was a beautifully told story from start to finish, complete with the development of themes, consistent characterization, and a three-act structure

[simple schoolboy]

I liked the whole journalism/ Snowden-ish thing. It was impressive how it was turned into a damn the man thing rather than the current administration is way harsher on leaks than the previous ones, but I digress. Other than that, I'm not sure than Mr. Sorkin and I see eye to eye on much. We should celebrate our common values, though, right?

[BurtReynolds]

I don't think I can bear the preaching, but I'll give it a shot eventually.

[Alex]

I don't think I can bear the preaching, but I'll give it a shot eventually.

don't you like south park?

[spike]

this show makes me lol at how constantly self important it and its characters act, but i still watched every episode. olivia munn became increasingly annoying this season.

[@SkitchP]

So I recently decided to rewatch this as a low investment thing to have on before bed. And im three episodes in and... it's aged way better than I would have anticipated. At least as it relates to quasi predictions about where we were headed in media and as a country. A lot of foresight on the Tea Party basically destroying the traditional republican party through made up facts.

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[@SkitchP]

That’s interesting, and it almost makes me want to watch it again. But by the end, I found the Sorkinism of it all to be so unbearable that I’ll take your word for it.

Oh man the Sorkinism level is off the fucking charts. Although im finding myself way more into Mackenzie than I ever was.

[Chris_H_2]

i watched the first season, and somewhat enjoyed it, despite the flaws that trag pointed out. but those flaws became too unbearable, and we bailed by the first 1-2 episodes of the second season.

[doug rr]

we tried when it came out and i don't remember how far we got into S1 before stopping