Well, that's okay then. I suppose The wire is not like other shows when it comes to spoiling, but it's funny there are real plot points in it.

So, did everyone else kind of fall off The Newsroom? I fell behind after episode 2, and have finally started to get caught up. It goes without saying, of course, that the Sorkin self-recycling continues unabated (that's why you should let the other writers in the room actually write episodes, Aaron...), but I have to say I thought episode 3 was okay, but episode 4, the one about tabloid journalism and culminating in the Gabby Giffords shooting totally got me. And of course, being Sorkin, he did it in the most ham-fisted, anvilicious ways possible, and yet I still totally fell for it.

Some day I may have to conduct a deeper examination of why I am so willing to overlook Sorkin's massive flaws in favor of his good points, but today is not that day.

episode 4, the one about tabloid journalism and culminating in the Gabby Giffords shooting totally got me.

The one where whatshisface gets drinks thrown at him over and over because he can't stop being an asshole? That was the one that made me glad there were no more press screeners to watch.

I watched it all, but it's totally uneven and shit.(They pay me to write reviews, I swear) And no young person would EVER think "LOL" is "Lots of Love". Unless it's those teens from that Amish in the city show...they might. But they aren't PAsin the Big Apple are they?) Sean, I blame the media blamers.(Sorkin would hate that I quoted Dale Gribble instead of him) Switching egomaniac showrunner gears(Although I think Simon women are pretty real and/or pleasingly bad-assed) New Treme, yesterday. Haven't watched it yet.

The one where whatshisface gets drinks thrown at him over and over because he can't stop being an asshole? That was the one that made me glad there were no more press screeners to watch.

That's the worst part, Jess! It was Sorkin at his hackiest, and I knew it as it was happening, and I still fell for it. I am all ashamed. See? This is my shame face.

Sean, I blame the media blamers.(Sorkin would hate that I quoted Dale Gribble instead of him)

BWAHAHAHAHA! Hilarious, erika.

Also, somehow I had managed to completely not know that Treme was a Simon show until just today. Or that Lester Freamon was in it too (I knew Bunk was in it). All of these facts may have just pushed it to the top or near the top of the What to Watch Next queue for my roommate and I.

He's good. He's an Indian(Mardi Gras style) who really wants his jazz-musician son to take the tradition up.

and I knew it as it was happening, and I still fell for it. I am all ashamed.

AS WELL YOU SHOULD BE.

No, I get it. Sorkin's easy to hate-on (and I do!) but for all his issues (and there are so many!), you can't argue that his writing is ineffective.

wrod. Even if the proper response to feminist criticism isn't to give your busty cutout another degree and fluency in Japanese. It's about character, not credentials. Almost all of the women on Deadwood lacked those kind of attainments, and mostly, they were prostitutes, but they still did things for their own reasons. In that way, I'd say they were more feminist than many of the women on the Newsroom.(Even though some of them are played endearingly by the actresses involved, imo. I like them. Except Olivia Munn's economist. She kind of bugs me...maybe she's*that much* of a nerd-guy fantasy?)

Wow, erika, you weren't kidding. I'm watching episode 6, which is the one where the quirky young blonde says she didn't know what LOL stood for. That's dumber than an SNL-type-show trying to do hard hitting topical humor by doing a Gilbert and Sullivan reference. And this episode is recycling like HALF THE PLOTS OF WEST WING!

Also, I don't really get the Olivia Munn crushage. She's kind of a crap actor.

I really like the show, but that's why the stuff that doesn't work sticks out pretty badly.Aaron Sorkin, himself, might confuse that acronym, because he's over fifty and famously concluded the internet sucks... Maggie wouldn't. She's probably been texting since seventh grade. Could she have sent an inappropriately jokey condolence note? Yes. But it wouldn't be that one. Sean, most economics experts I've ever seen look like Robert Reich or Elizabeth Warren. Attractive in sort of a married-looking kind of way...or like Paul Krugman...he looks like a dad, right? I've never seen one whose breasts came in the room before she does.I don't really know if you can be an expert in anything without hitting a certain number of birthdays(kind of surprised Sorkin is so enamored of prodigies, still, as I get older, most of my characters do too.) Maybe I'm the sexist one...but really it's not my tits that keep me out of economics nearly as much as the black hole in my brain most math falls into.) But I guess if Munn inhabited the role I could forget that stuff. She doesn't though.