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The Newsroom - new HBO series from Aaron Sorkin (1 Viewer)

packersfan said:
Given how Sorkin dismissed a major storyline in Season 1 this season (Will being the subject of death threats online) without even mentioning it I wouldn't be surprised if we never hear another word about the lawsuit again.
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Honestly what else is there to talk about in regards to the lawsuit. Make a blurb that it's been dismissed and move on. No more juice to be squeezed out of it.

 
Beerguzzler said:
packersfan said:
Given how Sorkin dismissed a major storyline in Season 1 this season (Will being the subject of death threats online) without even mentioning it I wouldn't be surprised if we never hear another word about the lawsuit again.
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Honestly what else is there to talk about in regards to the lawsuit. Make a blurb that it's been dismissed and move on. No more juice to be squeezed out of it.
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That's my feeling too. The story's been told. Time to move on.

 
I liked the series, but didn't love the finale. Although maybe that's just because Breaking Bad has made me think happy endings are for suckers.

 
packersfan said:
Gr00vus said:
packersfan said:
Given how Sorkin dismissed a major storyline in Season 1 this season (Will being the subject of death threats online) without even mentioning it I wouldn't be surprised if we never hear another word about the lawsuit again.
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I'd be fine with that. Why manufacture drama when there's so much real material to dive into? The really need to introduce a legitimate political foil as a regular.
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Seemed like they tried to do a little of that with Taylor. I wouldn't mind seeing her return.
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To be fair, Sorkin's point is that there is no need for a foil when the opposition is full of crackpots. Hence Will's line about the 14 to 1 ratio and Taylor had a problem with the story tellers.

 
RUSF18 said:
Rush Limbaugh said:
Chase Stuart said:
I liked the series, but didn't love the finale. Although maybe that's just because Breaking Bad has made me think happy endings are for suckers.
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That wasn't the finale was it? That was the 9th episode this season. Still one more to go?
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They had to scrap an episode because Sorkin botched the early episodes and needed to re-shoot. It's done for the year, and possibly forever.
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It's been renewed for a 3rd season.

 
packersfan said:
RUSF18 said:
Rush Limbaugh said:
Chase Stuart said:
I liked the series, but didn't love the finale. Although maybe that's just because Breaking Bad has made me think happy endings are for suckers.
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That wasn't the finale was it? That was the 9th episode this season. Still one more to go?
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They had to scrap an episode because Sorkin botched the early episodes and needed to re-shoot. It's done for the year, and possibly forever.
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It's been renewed for a 3rd season.
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It was announced as being renewed by Jeff Daniels, but not HBO yet. And Sorkin hasn't committed yet.

 
RUSF18 said:
packersfan said:
RUSF18 said:
Rush Limbaugh said:
Chase Stuart said:
I liked the series, but didn't love the finale. Although maybe that's just because Breaking Bad has made me think happy endings are for suckers.
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That wasn't the finale was it? That was the 9th episode this season. Still one more to go?
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They had to scrap an episode because Sorkin botched the early episodes and needed to re-shoot. It's done for the year, and possibly forever.
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It's been renewed for a 3rd season.
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It was announced as being renewed by Jeff Daniels, but not HBO yet. And Sorkin hasn't committed yet.
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He makes the show anyways. Just put him with a bunch of monkeys and Olivia Munn and we're off!

 
I liked the finale, but it's possible I liked it more than I would have if I hadn't watched Breaking Bad right before it.

Sloan's "Oh, come on!" at the anchor desk had me literally LOL'ing.

Honestly... there are few shows that get a really neat happy ending these days, and I was happy that this one did on all counts. Unrealistic? Absolutely. A little too neat? Probably. But I don't care. I'm glad this one wrapped the way it did.

 
danielmclark said:
I liked the finale, but it's possible I liked it more than I would have if I hadn't watched Breaking Bad right before it.
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Good point. I love this show and really wanted to watch the finale on Sunday but given how amazing Breaking Bad was I probably should've held off a day or so. There was really no way to properly watch any other show after seeing that Breaking Bad episode. Anything else was going to pale by comparison.

 
Tried to give this show another shot by viewing the opening first episode Daniels salvo of Sorkin shtick.

After that, it's all "look at him no look at me no look at her why am I looking at her because I don't know who you are hey here is the Indian guy with a Dell dude instead of an Air who is just as confused with the dialogue but nonetheless is game because the Indian guy on Big Bang Theory has better timing and should use Linux and I am just maybe 15 minutes into the first episode and thankfully it doesn't have a long open to make me realize that a cocaine addicted Joe Eszterhas did get a sum of $1 million dollars for a script that had sex in it that wasn't as annoying as Sorkin not being able to write sex like they do in Big Bang Theory yet if you imagined Sorkin writing sex it would be like the 25 year old Indian dude behind a Dell saying to the 20 year old who is running floor that no Speed Racer is not what we consider Asian while trying to fit Olivia Munn who said Dell dude pointed how Nixie Pixel is a better nerd while all the while I see these people running around in a newsroom with no breaking news that still doesn't remind me of the days when I had green editors cutting and bringing me sports when that was two blocks away after trying to get the opening package in roll the open on server C give me a two box and no one said a thing during broadcast except during the three hour morning show where the producer said over head cans that they drank a box of wine with friends the night before which was more interesting than sitting around the news room trying to find something to talk about.

All I can say is:

Sorkin, it's time guy...

 
Havent watched this show since middle of season 1, but can anyone here actually think that Daniels was more worthy of the Best Actor Emmy for a Drama over Cranston?

 
Daniels is excellent and very deserving of an Emmy -- he's the best part of the show. The problem, of course, is that he was going against the TV equivalent of DDL, so no, he should not have won.

 
I thought Daniels was very deserving of the Emmy and maybe they figured Cranston has won so many and honestly could win every year that they'll give it to someone else this time.

 
packersfan said:
I thought Daniels was very deserving of the Emmy and maybe they figured Cranston has won so many and honestly could win every year that they'll give it to someone else this time.
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they keep giving Modern Family the comedy Emmy each year. Cranston was robbed.
 
packersfan said:
I thought Daniels was very deserving of the Emmy and maybe they figured Cranston has won so many and honestly could win every year that they'll give it to someone else this time.
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Just setting it up for next year where Breaking Bad will sweep everything. Give some of the other people a little bit of credit before demonstrating the BB dominance next year.

 
Chase Stuart said:
Daniels is excellent and very deserving of an Emmy -- he's the best part of the show. The problem, of course, is that he was going against the TV equivalent of DDL, so no, he should not have won.
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I can't believe Cranston didn't win and it wasn't Hamm that took it.

 
Daniels said last night there will definitely be a third season but HBO hasn't finalized when it will air which is why there hasn't been an official announcement besides his Tweet.

 
Gr00vus said:
packersfan said:
Given how Sorkin dismissed a major storyline in Season 1 this season (Will being the subject of death threats online) without even mentioning it I wouldn't be surprised if we never hear another word about the lawsuit again.
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I'd be fine with that. Why manufacture drama when there's so much real material to dive into? The really need to introduce a legitimate political foil as a regular. The main characters are just different points on the liberal/progressive spectrum, which makes it tough to have any meaningful conflict around the actual news events themselves. I guess Leona and her son are probably more conservative, but they don't pop up that often.
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I'd like to see Elliot be replaced with a charismatic conservative host. ACN trying to balance out their programming? Have Don stay on as the executive producer of the conservative show and have it become a ratings monster.

 
Fennis said:
I thought the previous episode was a great way to end the season. I was surprised to see two more episodes. I really wish it ended with Jane Fonda's yelling "Get it back!"
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:goodposting:

No problem, with the last 2 episodes, but this would have been a far better season ending.

 
Rush Limbaugh said:
RUSF18 said:
Chase Stuart said:
Daniels is excellent and very deserving of an Emmy -- he's the best part of the show. The problem, of course, is that he was going against the TV equivalent of DDL, so no, he should not have won.
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I can't believe Cranston didn't win and it wasn't Hamm that took it.
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The field was really stacked. It thought Spacey should of gotten it.
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Daniels is very good but if anyone besides him wins their is no story. Odd to hear their was an audible gasp amongst the Emmy crowd considering they are the ones who do the voting.

 
HBO announced that Aaron Sorkin's "The Newsroom" has finally been renewed for a third season, which will go into production in the spring and air in the fall, and that this will be the show's final season. This qualifies as a good news, bad news kind of day, though different segments of the show's audience — some of whom thrill to the Sorkin-y dialogue and/or to his critique of the dire state of American politics and the media that covers the politicians, some of whom (yours truly included) who feel the show magnifies pretty much all of Sorkin's worst instincts as a dramatist — will disagree on which piece is the good and which is the bad."The Newsroom" wasn't the critical darling or smash hit HBO might have hoped for, but it won some awards (including Jeff Daniels' stunning Emmy win over Bryan Cranston, Kevin Spacey, et al, back in September), and it put the channel in business with Sorkin, the prolific Emmy and Oscar-winning writer. All accounts of the wait for renewal suggested HBO would be eager to order a new season whenever Sorkin said yes, and that it was a matter of Sorkin both finding a hole in his schedule and deciding whether he still wanted the agita when he could be off writing screenplays.

By ordering only one more season, and by bringing in former "Office" showrunner Paul Lieberstein as an executive producer, HBO apparently made things easy enough for Sorkin to return, even though the second season finale sure felt like Sorkin taking care of all family business before he had to walk away. The fall window suggests it'll be airing after another final HBO drama season, since "Boardwalk Empire" will be concluding then as well.
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Raider Nation said:
HBO announced that Aaron Sorkin's "The Newsroom" has finally been renewed for a third season, which will go into production in the spring and air in the fall, and that this will be the show's final season. This qualifies as a good news, bad news kind of day, though different segments of the show's audience — some of whom thrill to the Sorkin-y dialogue and/or to his critique of the dire state of American politics and the media that covers the politicians, some of whom (yours truly included) who feel the show magnifies pretty much all of Sorkin's worst instincts as a dramatist — will disagree on which piece is the good and which is the bad."The Newsroom" wasn't the critical darling or smash hit HBO might have hoped for, but it won some awards (including Jeff Daniels' stunning Emmy win over Bryan Cranston, Kevin Spacey, et al, back in September), and it put the channel in business with Sorkin, the prolific Emmy and Oscar-winning writer. All accounts of the wait for renewal suggested HBO would be eager to order a new season whenever Sorkin said yes, and that it was a matter of Sorkin both finding a hole in his schedule and deciding whether he still wanted the agita when he could be off writing screenplays.

By ordering only one more season, and by bringing in former "Office" showrunner Paul Lieberstein as an executive producer, HBO apparently made things easy enough for Sorkin to return, even though the second season finale sure felt like Sorkin taking care of all family business before he had to walk away. The fall window suggests it'll be airing after another final HBO drama season, since "Boardwalk Empire" will be concluding then as well.
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I'm wondering if this show would be helped by another political season passing.

 
Saw it coming months away. That whole reddit #### show was right in AS's wheelhouse. Good episode, and one this show was born for.

I get a kick out of his thing of having all these heavy storylines meeting in one spot with those carrying each standing around listening to the high command tell everybody to chill out, the camera spinning around the room; Reese standing there, Neil standing there, Sloan standing there.

I would like to get naked with Tess. And the assistant. And Sloan. Mac, too. Preferably all at once. TIA.

 
Strong start to the season. I really missed this show. Daniels is outstanding.

So is Jim gonna start pining for Maggie again now that she's all grown up?

 
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packersfan said:
Strong start to the season. I really missed this show. Daniels is outstanding.

So is Jim gonna start pining for Maggie again now that she's all grown up?
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I liked the line about how smart the American public is - he probably filmed that hours after doing some dumb #### for Dumb and Dumber. Hes s versatile actor, that's for sure.

Sloan is gorgeous.

 
The Sloan/Don thing was painful, as was the guy playing the EPA weenie, but other than that, another good episode.

 
I'm 40 minutes into the new episode, and I keep asking myself "Why am I watching this show?"

I kind of hate it. The snappy-80's-sitcom dialogue is endless. Nobody talks like this in real life.

 
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