The Newsroom

[R-V]

Thi.

these two minutes of The Newsroom seem to repeat a lot of the preachy, self-important elements I could never stand in The West Wing and Studio 60. Which may also be the things you loved about those shows.

http://entertainment.time.com/2012/04/02/youre-sorkin-in-it-hbos-newsroom-trailer-looks-pretty-familiar/#ixzz1que90o00

[Slaky]

Thi.

these two minutes of The Newsroom seem to repeat a lot of the preachy, self-important elements I could never stand in The West Wing and Studio 60. Which may also be the things you loved about those shows.

http://entertainment.time.com/2012/04/02/youre-sorkin-in-it-hbos-newsroom-trailer-looks-pretty-familiar/#ixzz1que90o00

Sorkin fans will love it and everyone else will hate it.

I hated Studio 60 so I have to believe that this show is going to suck hang.

[morpheus]

Intrepid Reader: Gil Gunderson

The Newsroom on HBO looks interesting.

[R-V]

Thi.

these two minutes of The Newsroom seem to repeat a lot of the preachy, self-important elements I could never stand in The West Wing and Studio 60. Which may also be the things you loved about those shows.

http://entertainment.time.com/2012/04/02/youre-sorkin-in-it-hbos-newsroom-trailer-looks-pretty-familiar/#ixzz1que90o00

Sorkin fans will love it and everyone else will hate it.

I hated Studio 60 so I have to believe that this show is going to suck hang.

Sounds like significant hang will be sucked. I'll end up watching it anyway.

You may argue that you could make many of the same arguments—about the sanctimony, the deck-stacking, the too-perfect stylized dialogue, &c.—against The West Wing. I agree, and I made them when The West Wing was on. But I also included The West Wing in my list of the 100 All-TIME TV Shows, because it also gave us rich characters, a sense of proportionality and an infectious feeling of romance with the country and the people who want to make it better. The Newsroom, after four exhausting, smug episodes, gives us none of that: just Aaron Sorkin writing one argument after another for himself to win.

http://entertainment.time.com/2012/06/21/dead-tree-alert-blowhardball-the-not-so-special-comment-of-hbos-the-newsroom/

[Fork]

Aaron Sorkin got paid so people could watch him masturbate, and he didn't even play baseball with TDubbs.

[Tonker]

The Aaron Sorkin recycled dialogue supercut.

[CBStew]

Aaron Sorkin got paid so people could watch him masturbate, and he didn't even play baseball with TDubbs.

Agreed.  Nonetheless, the opening rant directed at the soroity girl was very good, worth watching twice which we did because we had on dvr.  But they stooped to some really dumb attempts at phsical humor that were pointless.  Someone so nasty and socially inept as Daniel's character would not command anyone's respect, let alone their loyalty.  Putting together an expose of the oil spill in the Gulf based upon what someone's sister or colege roommate told him and simultaneously putting it on the air live is just asking too much of my ability to susend disbelief.

[Internet Apex]

So how much hang down does it suck and does it make me gay if I try to find out? These answers and more on HBO.go!

[Internet Apex]

Saw 2/3 of ep. 1 last night. So far, I'd say it sucks a circumstantial amount of hang down. Way too much SCREAMING and contrived, stilted dialogue. Exactly what you'd expect. Sam Watterson is awesome.

[CT III]

Saw 2/3 of ep. 1 last night. So far, I'd say it sucks a circumstantial amount of hang down. Way too much SCREAMING and contrived, stilted dialogue. Exactly what you'd expect. Sam Watterstink is awesometerrible.

You were so close until that last sentence.

[J. Walter Weatherman]

Saw 2/3 of ep. 1 last night. So far, I'd say it sucks a circumstantial amount of hang down. Way too much SCREAMING and contrived, stilted dialogue. Exactly what you'd expect. Sam Watterstink is awesometerrible.

You were so close until that last sentence.

Intrepid Reader: Gil Gunderbore, Esq.

You bite your tongue. THAT MAN IS A SAINT!

[CBStew]

Saw 2/3 of ep. 1 last night. So far, I'd say it sucks a circumstantial amount of hang down. Way too much SCREAMING and contrived, stilted dialogue. Exactly what you'd expect. Sam Watterstink is awesometerrible.

You were so close until that last sentence.

Intrepid Reader: Gil Gunderbore, Esq.

You bite your tongue. THAT MAN IS A SAINT!

Apparently the first Jewish saint since Peter.

[Yeti]

I'm a taxolib these days, but is Sorkin just going to continually rip on prior shot Republicans did. I watch Jon Stewart for that

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I'm a taxolib these days, but is Sorkin just going to continually rip on prior shot Republicans did. I watch Jon Stewart for that

You spelled "thit" wrong.

[Internet Apex]

I watched half of the pilot and forgot to give a shit about this show. What did I miss?