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.

Is it wrong of me that, if Sorkin is going to recycle the whole "Someone Threatened Me on the Internet, So I Need a Bodyguard" plotline from West Wing for Will, I'm now expecting a romance to develop between Will and his (big, black, male) bodyguard? Which would then be followed by the bodyguard getting killed in a liquor store holdup just as the romance is culminating, and a sadness montage done to Hallelujah.

Is it wrong of me that, if Sorkin is going to recycle the whole "Someone Threatened Me on the Internet, So I Need a Bodyguard" plotline from West Wing for Will, I'm now expecting a romance to develop between Will and his (big, black, male) bodyguard? Which would then be followed by the bodyguard getting killed in a liquor store holdup just as the romance is culminating, and a sadness montage done to Hallelujah.

Ha! That would be fun. I really loved the Newsroom, even though I knew stuff was being recycled and I was being manipulated. I just couldn't seem to care.

I'd watch it, Sean.

Man, Homeland. Still good.

So, I finally finished Newsroom. I felt like it occasionally gave me good Sorkin, but it was mostly floating in a sea of bad and recycled Sorkin. Still, I will probably continue to watch if it comes back next year. Also, I was fully expecting Will or his bodyguard to get shot in the final moment of the season.

It is coming back.

I was very surprised no one was shot in the finale too. The episode ended and I said, "that's it?"

wrod.

I wasn't paying much attention to the show, clearly, and only watched two episodes--I'm assuming they made it clear in the pilot that this is taking place in the past?

The other episode I saw was the Gabrielle Gifford one, and I...it was weird. There's a reason I can barely read books that incorporate traumatic real world events. I don't like going back there. And I didn't remember misreporting her death, so I thought they were changing it so she died in their universe to make more of a gun control point, and....

Yikes, it was rough.

BUT, I think with Sorkin, it is his framing of real life that gets me, not his ability to write real people, because...there aren't any in that episode.