New Sorkin Trailer

It was ... but ...

That's what I find myself saying every week with this show. I really enjoy the acting. But some of the stuff is just too convenient for me. Like the dude in the production room just conveniently having an FDNY hat sitting under the table for when the announcement came. Or a minor character (Neal's fuck buddy) having a direct connection to the towers. I hardly even know who she is.

And the time thing on this show is completely screwing me up. You get a show like Breaking Bad that has gone four-plus seasons and has barely advanced a year, and then you watch this and five episodes in they've gone more than a year. Screws with your mind when it comes to the relationships they want us to care so much about. I'm thinking, well, it's a little early for Lisa to be dropping the L word to begin with, and yet, hey, they've been dating for five months now, even though it only feels like they've been together for a couple of weeks.

I enjoy the show, but it's flawed.

 

Or a drunk, 70-something news executive knowing a wrestler had a Navy SEAL as a cousin. Or Joe Biden just happening to e-mail a high news anchor not reading his Blackberry.

The show is patently ridiculous.

 

Suspension of disbelief.

 

I can take some suspension of disbelief, but not to the level Sorkin is taking it right now. I'd probably watch the show differently if I weren't in the news industry. I admit that.

 

The time jumps are bugging me as well. Far too much is happening off screen.

The FDNY hat was a bit much, but not a surprise for a show written by Sorkin.

The bit about a minor character having lost somebody to the 9/11 attacks? That didn't bother me at all. You've got a decent-sized group of people in New York. It's not surprising at all that one of them lost somebody.

 

Too sanctimonious about everything even though his characters act with 20/20 hindsight.

 

Oh, wait a minute.

I thought you were talking about me. ;D

 

http://www.sportspickle.com/news/13500/aaron-sorkins-hard-knocks-panned-as-overwritten-and-preachy

 

I knew they scripted that show!! Reality my ass!

 

What a shocker. A Sorkin show that starts good and falls apart.

 

Who said it started good? I thought the first episode was passable at best, the second an absolute shit-shower, and it has shuffled along at a firmly sub-mediocre level since then.

 

I thought last night's episode was very good ... especially in sort of breaking down for the layman why Nancy Grace's broadcasts are so exploitative toward viewers.