Thi.
Quotethese 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
Quote from: R-V on April 02, 2012, 02:23:31 PM
Thi.
Quotethese 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.
Intrepid Reader: Gil GundersonQuoteThe Newsroom on HBO looks interesting.
Quote from: Slaky on April 02, 2012, 03:10:25 PM
Quote from: R-V on April 02, 2012, 02:23:31 PM
Thi.
Quotethese 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.
QuoteYou 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/
Aaron Sorkin got paid so people could watch him masturbate, and he didn't even play baseball with TDubbs.
The Aaron Sorkin recycled dialogue supercut (http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlla/the-recycled-dialogue-of-aaron-sorkin_b65548).
Quote from: Fork on June 26, 2012, 07:59:29 AM
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.
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!
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.
Quote from: Internet Apex on June 27, 2012, 09:53:33 AM
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.
Quote from: CT III on June 27, 2012, 10:17:30 AM
Quote from: Internet Apex on June 27, 2012, 09:53:33 AM
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!(http://i.imgur.com/wXq15.jpg)
Quote from: J. Walter Weatherman on June 27, 2012, 10:24:19 AM
Quote from: CT III on June 27, 2012, 10:17:30 AM
Quote from: Internet Apex on June 27, 2012, 09:53:33 AM
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!
(http://i.imgur.com/wXq15.jpg)
Apparently the first Jewish saint since Peter.
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
Quote from: Tollbooth Yeti on August 01, 2012, 11:46:10 AM
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.
I watched half of the pilot and forgot to give a shit about this show. What did I miss?
As far as I can tell, this show only exists to give my Liberal brethren something to copy and paste into their Facebook feeds when they run out of Rachel Maddow soundbites.
I saw some Twathead tweet that this is one of the two best shows on television. I didn't even know how to start mocking him. I don't get why anyone wants to watch Aaron Sorkin Explains The News.
Quote from: Sterling Archer on July 29, 2013, 03:55:24 PM
I saw some Twathead tweet that this is one of the two best shows on television. I didn't even know how to start mocking him. I don't get why anyone wants to watch Aaron Sorkin Explains The NewsShows You How Real Journalists Should Ask Questions About Stories Two Years After The Fact.
Better'd.
Quote from: Fork on July 29, 2013, 03:22:40 PM
As far as I can tell, this show only exists to give my Liberal brethren something to copy and paste into their Facebook feeds when they run out of Rachel Maddow soundbites.
Maybe they should rename the show "TIME TO POST".
Quote from: J. Walter Weatherman on July 29, 2013, 08:30:21 PM
Quote from: Fork on July 29, 2013, 03:22:40 PM
As far as I can tell, this show only exists to give my Liberal brethren something to copy and paste into their Facebook feeds when they run out of Rachel Maddow soundbites.
Maybe they should rename the show "TIME TO POST".
Only if they let me write it.
Which would improve it be many degrees of magnitude.
Quote from: Fork on July 29, 2013, 08:44:47 PM
Quote from: J. Walter Weatherman on July 29, 2013, 08:30:21 PM
Quote from: Fork on July 29, 2013, 03:22:40 PM
As far as I can tell, this show only exists to give my Liberal brethren something to copy and paste into their Facebook feeds when they run out of Rachel Maddow soundbites.
Maybe they should rename the show "TIME TO POST".
Only if they let me write it.
Which would improve it be many degrees of magnitude.
Then it would just be Jeff Daniels hijacking a news show to read "Reasons Why I Love You" and "The Diarrhea Monologues" live on the air.
I don't know why anyone watches this show unless it's a hate watch which I'm fully behind.
Quote from: Slaky on July 30, 2013, 09:12:04 AM
I don't know why anyone watches this show unless it's a hate watch which I'm fully behind.
So brave.
I've continued hatewatching it, and last night.... I admit it, I didn't hate it. (most of it, that is)
Quote from: Yeti on August 26, 2013, 01:46:53 PM
I've continued hatewatching it, and last night.... I admit it, I didn't hate it. (most of it, that is)
I hate it so much I haven't missed a single minute of any episode.
I like it. Sorkin's JOing from TV Land on to the inside of the TV screen. I'm JOing in my living room on to the outside of the TV screen. Just one big liberal TV screen bukkake showdown.
But seriously, I do like it.
My main complaint from the last episode is that they were all like "Yea, we couldn't get it right on Benghazi because we were too distracted in cleaning up our fuckup."
I hated the show so much after about 45 minutes that I've refused to even consider watching it again. But it does occur to me that one could get more actual news in one hour (albeit a couple years later) from this show than in 24 hours of any of the major news channels. It might inspire people to think differently about the issues. Is that happening? Or is this the entirely pompous jerkoff that I suspected it was?
What I'm saying is, I may go back and give this another chance if there's value in the subject matter.
What sayeth?
In the most recent episode I was dumbfounded by the revelation that the TV News show paid millions to the reporter who sued for wrongful termination after he admitted that he doctored an interview tape to support the thesis of the story that he produced. The theory for settling with him, as best I could understand it, was that yes, he manufactured evidence, but there were so many people through whom he had to vet the lie, that one of them should have caught the deception, and therefore they had themselves to blame. I am still scratching my head over that. He didn't deserve to be fired because they didn't catch him soon enough to stop the publication of his deception?