The Newsroom

Stopped watching after season 1. It's just Aaron Sorkin's liberal jerkoff fantasy that a midwest conservative from a 1 street town who really isn't that conservative but is a big second amendment supporter would completely change his opinion based on meeting one lady with a pistol in her purse and a concealed carry permit. That lack of making sense typifies the show. Tries to present the most biased opinions as unbiased and it gets annoying.

Everything about this show is saccharine and wrought with self-importance. Jeff Daniels could read my entire order for Taco Bell and make it sound like a rousing, life-affirming sermon rather than a delicious death wish, I get it. This show seemed so obsessed with fiery monologue, sweeping romance, and tracking shots set to cloying orchestral cues that it lost sight of its many shortcomings and came off as tone deaf and banal. The poster even has Daniels aping The Thinker, like fuck off, god.

Does a great impression of an amazing prestige show until you think about literally any part of it for literally any amunt of time

I really enjoyed The Newsroom for its quippy writing, strong cast, and idealistic plotlines. The 1st season delivers the strongest plot, with its notions of how the news should be produced and some truly great dramatic moments (reporting on Gabby Giffords' shooting paired to Coldplay's Fix You). The entire cast is great, but Sadoski's dynamic with both Daniels and Munn particularly stood out.

My grandfather's chain emails came to life, but with Marine Todd recast as Jeff Daniels and with lower quality writing.

I don't give a shit about news and politics. I don't even know who is the president.

When it sticks to the political side it can be interesting and scarily prophetic, but it becomes bogged down by the romantic subplots, that obviously, Sorkin has no clue how to structure. And which makes you want to throw a brick through your television screen. And Holy Christ, is Alison Pill's character one of the most annoying persons in television history!

Aaron Sorkin is a brilliant writer, and this show starts off strong. Unfortunately, I feel like it didn't really know what to do with the format in later seasons so they don't work as well, but the dialogue is always fascinating throughout the entire series.

Really it's just the worst. All the annoying parts of the West Wing with its sanctimonious liberal benefit-of-hindsight pulpit preaching are condensed into this appalling black hole of snark, the only people who would like it probably religiously watch cable news channel debates and/or Bill Maher.

It feels real.