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Andre Jurieu
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Re: The Newsroom

#101 Post by Andre Jurieu » Mon Nov 10, 2014 4:47 am

Earlier I wrote:... and yet I still kept watching in hopes that the next episode would dramatically improve in quality and perspective.
Well, looks like my persistence finally paid off because last night's season premiere was, in my opinion, actually the strongest material that the show has provided during its entire run. Maggie and Sloane were both displayed to be competent and very little of the show was obsessed with how amazing and honourable our main characters are compared to their competition. In fact, the central characters finally seemed human. Still a little too much preoccupation with how stupid people on the internet are, but I guess you got to let Sorkin-be-Sorkin on some of the elements.

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#102 Post by Andre Jurieu » Mon Dec 08, 2014 2:52 am

... aaaaand just when I think the show has hit its stride, the most heavy-handed episode of the season has a script purely credited to Sorkin.

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#103 Post by Roger Ryan » Mon Dec 08, 2014 11:18 am

I was just about to say that THE NEWSROOM had finally reached (in its penultimate episode!) a successful blend of humor and issue-oriented drama that I was hoping for from the beginning, then...
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...the double-whammy of Skinner's ludicrous death in slow-motion (to the strains of "Oh Shenandoah" no less!) and the completely unnecessary Shyamalan-style reveal that McAvoy's cellmate was actually his dead father.
Oh well, if the show went out too strong I might have felt the need to re-evaluate the first two seasons.

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#104 Post by mfunk9786 » Thu Sep 12, 2019 1:11 am


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Re: The Newsroom

#105 Post by Big Ben » Thu Sep 12, 2019 10:30 am

mfunk9786 wrote:
Thu Sep 12, 2019 1:11 am
To commemorate 9/11, please enjoy this incredibly stupid scene from The Newsroom
This was somehow worse than I expected. Holy shit what the hell.

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#107 Post by jazzo » Thu Sep 12, 2019 12:00 pm

mfunk9786 wrote:
Thu Sep 12, 2019 1:11 am
To commemorate 9/11, please enjoy this incredibly stupid scene from The Newsroom
Fuck. I'd forgotten how much I hated this fucking show.

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#108 Post by mfunk9786 » Thu Sep 12, 2019 12:38 pm

I realize this'll go over like a lead balloon here, but Sorkin doesn't seem to have the most solid view of women. The way the flight attendant character was written there, and then referred to, is just insane.

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Re: The Newsroom

#109 Post by flyonthewall2983 » Thu Sep 12, 2019 2:10 pm

I can only imagine how bad the show has aged in the past 3 years

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Re: The Newsroom

#110 Post by mfunk9786 » Thu Sep 12, 2019 2:12 pm

flyonthewall2983 wrote:
Thu Sep 12, 2019 2:10 pm
I can only imagine how bad the show has aged in the past 3 years
They should make a show set 3 years in the past about The Newsroom being made well!

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#111 Post by Mr Sausage » Thu Sep 12, 2019 3:08 pm

mfunk9786 wrote:I realize this'll go over like a lead balloon here, but Sorkin doesn't seem to have the most solid view of women. The way the flight attendant character was written there, and then referred to, is just insane.
I have no opinion on Sorkin’s view of women, but it is striking how the flight attendant’s treated vs. the awe and respect the men command when they walk out with all their emblems and accoutrements of authority, even tho’ they’re there to say the exact same things as the attendant. It’s right out of parody.

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Re: The Newsroom

#112 Post by Andre Jurieu » Tue Sep 17, 2019 12:42 pm

mfunk9786 wrote:
Thu Sep 12, 2019 12:38 pm
I realize this'll go over like a lead balloon here, but Sorkin doesn't seem to have the most solid view of women. The way the flight attendant character was written there, and then referred to, is just insane.
I will reiterate my stance that Sorkin had no idea how to write a substantial role for Olivia Munn's character beyond reminding us how attractive she was with almost every other line.


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Re: The Newsroom

#114 Post by domino harvey » Mon Nov 04, 2019 7:23 pm

(Sound of crickets intensifies)

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Re: The Newsroom

#115 Post by beamish14 » Mon Nov 04, 2019 8:23 pm

Every time this thread gets bumped, I want to believe we're talking about the brilliant Canadian comedy series from Ken Finkleman

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Re: The Newsroom

#116 Post by mfunk9786 » Mon Nov 04, 2019 9:08 pm

domino harvey wrote:
Mon Nov 04, 2019 7:23 pm
(Sound of crickets intensifies)
Any given Onion article is about a thousand times more interesting than anything Aaron Sorkin has written in almost a decade

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Re: The Newsroom

#117 Post by domino harvey » Mon Nov 04, 2019 9:11 pm

Dislike

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Re: The Newsroom

#118 Post by knives » Mon Nov 04, 2019 9:31 pm

Fincher lies crying in a corner.

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#119 Post by swo17 » Mon Nov 04, 2019 9:37 pm

mfunk9786 wrote:
Mon Nov 04, 2019 9:08 pm
domino harvey wrote:
Mon Nov 04, 2019 7:23 pm
(Sound of crickets intensifies)
Any given Onion article is about a thousand times more interesting than anything Aaron Sorkin has written in almost a decade
Every Onion article peaks during the headline

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Re: The Newsroom

#120 Post by domino harvey » Mon Nov 04, 2019 9:42 pm

I can’t even with the unawareness of using the Onion to make an argument about something else not being good for a decade

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