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Frayed Knot Jul 19 2012 08:56 PM

Anyone watching this? I never watched 'West Wing' (didn't avoid it really, just never got around to it) and 'Sports Night' was so long ago and so brief that I have trouble recalling much about it (although I remember liking it at the time), but I'm kind of enjoying this one so far even though I've never been a big fan of getting hit over the head with blunt instruments about whatever point the writer, uber-writer Aaron Sorkin in this case, wants to make. And sure it's over the top in that the conversations - or, more accurately, the speeches - the characters give to one another would totally never happen in real life, but neither would the ones that the Epstein twins wrote for 'Casablanca' but that didn't stop them from being fun.

Vic Sage Jul 19 2012 09:03 PM Re: Newsroom

i'm absolutely loving it so far.

Benjamin Grimm Jul 20 2012 04:59 AM Re: Newsroom

It's entertaining, but not as good as I hoped it would be. (Much better than Studio 60, but not as good as West Wing.)

Frayed Knot Jul 20 2012 07:01 AM Re: Newsroom

I forgot about 'Studio 60' in my little TV Sorkinography - but that's probably a good thing. The too cute they'd never really happen speeches, dialog, and repartee on that show came off as forced and pretentious whereas I'm finding real humor in 'Newsroom'

TransMonk Jul 20 2012 07:26 AM Re: Newsroom

It's my favorite show on TV right now (granted it's summertime...TV's offseason). Jeff Daniels is amazing.

Vic Sage Jul 20 2012 08:04 AM Re: Newsroom

i think the lack of unicorns, in this context, is a plus.

TransMonk Jul 20 2012 08:18 AM Re: Newsroom

There was an over-abundance of "bigfoot" in the last episode, though. I'm hoping that it doesn't become a season-long running joke.

Benjamin Grimm Jul 20 2012 08:23 AM Re: Newsroom

I was a bit put off by how easy it was to accidentally send an e-mail to everyone in the world.

Swan Swan H Jul 20 2012 08:28 AM Re: Newsroom

I like it a lot as well. Sam Waterston kills me. I really hadn't seen Alison Pill anywhere I remembered before, but she's also featured in the new Woody Allen movie and is really good in both. I'm glad to see that they already renewed for season 2. No pressure to cram too much into the end of season 1. Episode 3 was go-written by Sorkin and Gideon Yago, who I remember from MTV News when he was about 12.

TransMonk Jul 20 2012 08:37 AM Re: Newsroom

Swan Swan H wrote: Sam Waterston kills me. Truly missed after Law & Order. Swan Swan H wrote: I really hadn't seen Alison Pill anywhere I remembered before... She played the deadpan drummer from Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World.

Benjamin Grimm Jul 20 2012 09:04 AM Re: Newsroom

She was also on HBO's In Treatment, Season Two.

TransMonk Jul 20 2012 10:10 AM Re: Newsroom

***Breaking News*** Aaron Sorkin shedding 'Newsroom' writing staff

Vic Sage Jul 20 2012 10:15 AM Re: Newsroom

Pill is a great stage actress, too. On Broadway, in recent years, i've seen her in LIEUTENANT OF INISHMORE, MAURITIUS, MIRACLE WORKER and HOUSE OF BLUE LEAVES, and she was great in all of them.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Jul 20 2012 04:53 PM Re: Newsroom

TransMonk wrote: ***Breaking News*** Aaron Sorkin shedding 'Newsroom' writing staff So... it's back to the cocaine, then?

Frayed Knot Jul 20 2012 04:59 PM Re: Newsroom

The praise mentioned here for Waterson, Daniels, Pill, and the yet-unmentioned Mortimer reminds me that maybe part of the reason I'm hearing better dialog on this show as compared to that on 'Studio 60' is due to the lines being delivered by actors better than the likes of Matthew Perry and Amanda Peet.