New Sorkin Trailer

Haven't watched The Newsroom but I've worked with Olivia Munn a few times and she's a superstar in the making. She's quick and witty, very smart (raised around the world as an Army Brat, she's fluent in Japanese) and very sexy in a casual way that makes men around her melt.

 

My cable company just launched G4 in HD last week. I guess NBC/Comcast is pushing that channel down pay TV providers' throats as part of the other suite of channels that people actually watch.

 

I can see why.

 

You know it. Same reason the entire country has TruTV available when TruTV is watched for eight hours each year during the first round of the NCAA basketball tournament.

 

YOU SHUT YOUR FACE.

It's also where people (and by people, I mean my dad) watch Cops and World's Dumbest Criminals.

 

Oh, I bet they're running in syndication on a continuous cycle on some other channel.

 

is it a bad sign when nobody has yet to post about last night's ep? pick at sorkin's work all you want, i'd still take his weakest efforts over most of what's on the air,

the show is working for me, fwiw...

 

I'm just hate-watching it at this point. Setting a new record for eyerolls/groans per minute. That opening monologue was unbearable last night.

 

Yeah, this is one of those shows that maybe we should not watch, being journalists, it's like nurses and doctors watching ER. We just can't stomach the crap and unrealism.

 

Same here, though I thought Sunday night's was a little better than the second episode, which was a train wreck.

So the idea is that you had an anchor who was privately a Republican, but played it down the middle during his broadcasts, but he wasn't really "reporting the news" and "informing the electorate" until he started expressing more liberal opinions? Switch the parties around and I still have the same issues with that.

I've never minded Emily Mortimer before, but I hate this character. I've thought Allison Pill was fantastic in other stuff I've seen her, but everything about her character on this show is pathetic. I can't understand how she wouldn't have been fired yet. They managed to turn Sam Waterston into Boozy the Clown.

I like the Slumdog guy's character, but he it seems like he's barely in it. I also like the outgoing producer and the guy played by Chris Messina, though I'm pretty sure those are the ones I'm supposed to dislike.

 

I'll probably tap out on this show when Breaking Bad starts up again this Sunday. Last two episodes have been pretty darn weak. Not even the Sorkin fan in me is really intrigued by it.

 

The second episode was awful. Indefensibly awful. There is nothing else that I can say about it.

The latest ep was better. Still flawed, but I'm glad it got a renewal. I hope certain aspects of it (pretty much every female character, the very dumb relationships) get radically reworked for the second season. The first I've kind of written off. It's in the can, Sorkin did what Sorkin wanted to do, for better or worse. I hope he's open to critical feedback for the second.

I don't care about the lack of realism. I generally don't in my drama. I care that the characters resonate on some level and the plot is interesting enough to follow. So far this is...some of that.

I probably wouldn't be watching it at all at this point if it wasn't about a newsroom, so there's that.