The Newsroom

[milohimself]

Just saw the pilot. Incredible so far. Sorkin strikes again.

[MG1968]

orangeblooded2 thinks "Rock of Ages" is Oscar worthy

[milohimself]

Trying to pretend that movie doesn't exist

[VolFan32]

Pretty solid pilot.

[_vol]

Quality pilot, no doubt.

[chatt-townVOL]

A friend said I should watch it. I don't know how I can handle Jeff Daniels not playing Harry

[chatt-townVOL]

Ok just watched it. I'm on board.

[vader]

I'll have to check this out as soon as I get caught up on Breaking Bad.

[RDU VOL#14]

Really enjoyed the pilot as well. I will definitely keep watching.

[Roughneck]

Sorkinisms - A Supercut - YouTube

[n_huffhines]

Pilot was awesome. Losing interest fast. It seems too contrived.

What's so original about painting the Tea Party as lunatics? So much for doing something outside the box.

[milohimself]

I don't know how anybody would have expected anything substantively different from the West Wing, unless you aren't old enough to remember the West Wing. I can't conceive of the show working without going back a couple years prior, Sorkin is trying to create his ideal journalist, an heir to Murrow and the other great original TV journalists. A political bend is unavoidable.

The quality of dialogue and character development is what keeps me watching, and IMO Sorkin does it as well as anybody making television.

[_vol]

It's a soap opera at the end of the day, but it's at least immersed in real-world events as the news covered them the past couple of years which provides an interesting stage and presentation of the storyline.

I used to work in a newsroom way back when so it brings back some fun and not so fun memories.

[n_huffhines]

Haha, his ideal journalist sucks. The Tea Party was not started by right-wing religious gun zealots, backed by Koch, or whomever. It was started by Ron Paul's money bomb on the anniversary of the Boston Tea Party and then later hijacked.

That's the real story, and they missed it...even on a show about the "real story" with 2 years of hindsight to draw from.

When they're not actually doing the news, it's a very good show. All of his guest analysts/pundits are so conveniently dumb. It doesn't seem real.

[n_huffhines]

Originally Posted by _vol

It's a soap opera at the end of the day, but it's at least immersed in real-world events as the news covered them the past couple of years which provides an interesting stage and presentation of the storyline.

I used to work in a newsroom way back when so it brings back some fun and not so fun memories.

My bro-in-law is editor for a morning show on Headline News. He hasn't seen the show, but of course it has his co-workers buzzing. General feedack is that they nail a few things, but hollywood it up, mostly.