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Re: HBO: The Newsroom
Posted: Mon December 15, 2014 5:39 pm
by 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.
Re: HBO: The Newsroom
Posted: Mon December 15, 2014 5:42 pm
by Alex
yeah
Re: HBO: The Newsroom
Posted: Mon December 15, 2014 5:43 pm
by Norah
I mean, at least the final episode was better than the penultimate.
Re: HBO: The Newsroom
Posted: Mon December 15, 2014 5:45 pm
by Alex
it was a beautifully told story from start to finish, complete with the development of themes, consistent characterization, and a three-act structure
Re: HBO: The Newsroom
Posted: Tue December 16, 2014 8:02 am
by 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?
Re: HBO: The Newsroom
Posted: Tue December 16, 2014 8:21 am
by BurtReynolds
I don't think I can bear the preaching, but I'll give it a shot eventually.
Re: HBO: The Newsroom
Posted: Tue December 16, 2014 2:43 pm
by Alex
BurtReynolds wrote:I don't think I can bear the preaching, but I'll give it a shot eventually.
don't you like south park?
Re: HBO: The Newsroom
Posted: Tue December 16, 2014 2:51 pm
by 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.
Re: HBO: The Newsroom
Posted: Tue June 18, 2019 3:17 pm
by @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.
Re: HBO: The Newsroom
Posted: Tue June 18, 2019 3:19 pm
by tragabigzanda
Steve Albini wrote: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.
Re: HBO: The Newsroom
Posted: Tue June 18, 2019 3:22 pm
by @SkitchP
tragabigzanda wrote: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.
Re: HBO: The Newsroom
Posted: Tue June 18, 2019 3:30 pm
by 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.
Re: HBO: The Newsroom
Posted: Tue June 18, 2019 3:41 pm
by doug rr
we tried when it came out and i don't remember how far we got into S1 before stopping