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The Newsroom - Better Than Rotten Turkey Meat

YoSoyTheWalrusYoSoyTheWalrus Registered User regular
edited August 2012 in Social Entropy++
The Newsroom is a show on HBO written by a man named Aaron Sorkin. People talk in it, that's how you know.

HBO has wisely decided to put the first episode in its entirety on the YouTube in order to get you to give a shit about it. Everyone says it sucks but I think it is neat. Also it is an opportunity to stare at Emily Mortimer for a while. Here, watch the episode:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1U4ZhFDFYvE

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  • LanglyLangly Registered User regular
    do they walk through halls

  • YoSoyTheWalrusYoSoyTheWalrus Registered User regular
    There is indeed some hall walking

    There is also some large-room walking and some restaurant sitting which, you know, keeps it fresh

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  • Dex DynamoDex Dynamo Registered User regular
    When my boss wants to talk with me, but one of us is on our way to a meeting, he inevitably says "C'mon, let's West Wing it."

    I like my boss.

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  • zimfanzimfan Registered User regular
    Aaron Sorkin is fantastic!

    Moneyball wasn't his best, but when he hits he knocks it out of the park! Social Network, Sports Night, West Wing, some of Studio 60, A FEW GOOD MENNNN

    Going to watch this now, will probably love it.

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  • George Fornby GrillGeorge Fornby Grill ...Like Clockwork Registered User regular
    Dex Dynamo wrote: »
    When my boss wants to talk with me, but one of us is on our way to a meeting, he inevitably says "C'mon, let's West Wing it."

    I like my boss.

    Oh man that's good, I'm stealing that.

  • DJ EebsDJ Eebs Moderator, Administrator admin
    man moneyball was excellent

    studio 60 was fucking terrible though

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    YOUR BROTHER IS IN THE MIDDLE OF IRAQ

  • zimfanzimfan Registered User regular
    The Geebs That Is A Pony wrote: »
    man moneyball was excellent

    studio 60 was fucking terrible though

    I didn't say I didn't love it, but Social Network was just such a powerhouse.

    And the pilot of Studio 60 is great!

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  • MugginsMuggins Registered User regular
    Of course everyone on facebook is posting this vid right now: http://youtu.be/YI7Oq8y-jXA

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  • MrMonroeMrMonroe passed out on the floor nowRegistered User regular
    This review of the show does not have a lot of good things to say about it.

    Let us discuss the deep irony of this review appearing in the New Yorker

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  • GalyGaly Registered User regular
    I just watched it. It was great.

    like really really great

    you guys should watch it

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  • KrunkMcGrunkKrunkMcGrunk Registered User regular
    i hate how sorkin's characters always talk so goddamn fast

    also, how fucking smug everyone is

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  • LanglyLangly Registered User regular
    So, like, most modern television?

  • DJ EebsDJ Eebs Moderator, Administrator admin
    "hey you! sorority girl!"

  • YoSoyTheWalrusYoSoyTheWalrus Registered User regular
    MrMonroe wrote: »
    This review of the show does not have a lot of good things to say about it.

    Let us discuss the deep irony of this review appearing in the New Yorker

    "It's smart but not smart enough, oh hey look I've seen four episodes look at me look! look! I review TV shows!, too many white people, and oh god they're all liberals. Also here is a paragraph about Veep for some reason."

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  • ShortyShorty touching the meat Intergalactic Cool CourtRegistered User regular
    here is what a guy at my local indie weekly has said about this show:

    http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2012/06/25/the-newsroom-another-awful-avalanche-of-aaron-sorkin-words

  • YoSoyTheWalrusYoSoyTheWalrus Registered User regular
    I do agree with the New Yorker guy about Veep though, it's funny as hell but I just do not give a single fuck about any of the characters

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  • satansfingerssatansfingers Registered User regular
    this seems to be the tipping point for aaron sorkin. i am seeing so many articles with the premise "this kind of sucks and hey when you think about it all his shows are kind of same-y in this stupid yearning for a make believe bygone america and also he's a bit of a sexist."

  • OlivawOlivaw good name, isn't it? the foot of mt fujiRegistered User regular
    West Wing was so good, though

    Until he left, then it stopped being charming and became super serious all the time

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  • satansfingerssatansfingers Registered User regular
    i didn't think studio 60 was as bad as most people did, despite its tendency to be didactic (except for the whole nevada two-parter which was hot garbage not just for the brother in iraq bit but also for the tired 'small town judge' character)

    sports night sux though

  • satansfingerssatansfingers Registered User regular
    i've never seen west wing but i do still want to despite everything else

    and this has been a summary of my opinions of aaron sorkin series

  • AntimatterAntimatter Devo Was Right Gates of SteelRegistered User regular
    West Wing is pretty great

    The first season at any rate

  • OlivawOlivaw good name, isn't it? the foot of mt fujiRegistered User regular
    satansfingers wrote: »
    i've never seen west wing but i do still want to despite everything else

    and this has been a summary of my opinions of aaron sorkin series

    West Wing has some head-shakey bits in it, and some bits that seriously date it (who remembers Rock the Vote? that was sure successful)

    But man, there's an arc with a secret service agent that's really good, and it's generally really funny and can be quite affecting, sometimes

    Also CJ rules. And Dule Hill is in it!

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  • DJ EebsDJ Eebs Moderator, Administrator admin
    I think aaron sorkin is a dude well suited to adapting material that should be incredibly dry (the social network, moneyball) and maybe when he's left unfiltered, he kind of...loses it

  • Goose!Goose! That's me, honey Show me the way home, honeyRegistered User regular
    The only opinion I've read on it is the only one I need to read (also my own opinion, having seen it, was that it looks good).

    Dan Rather thinks its great. His review is up on Gawker.

  • Fire TruckFire Truck I love my SELFRegistered User regular
    So is that monologue indicative of the message of the show? Because I can get behind the theme of America is emphatically not that great, but then it devolves into blaming young people for being "The Worst Generation" and talking about how the US used to be a utopia and I can't decide whether I want to claw my own eyes out or those of Aaron Sorkin.

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  • Goose!Goose! That's me, honey Show me the way home, honeyRegistered User regular
    Oh hey, I didn't even realize Olivia Munn is in it (I caught it from the middle).

  • KalTorakKalTorak One way or another, they all end up in the Undercity.Registered User regular
    Olivaw wrote: »
    But man, there's an arc with a secret service agent that's really good, and it's generally really funny and can be quite affecting, sometimes

    That's because it has Mark Harmon, the greatest actor who ever lived.

  • Virgil_Leads_YouVirgil_Leads_You Proud Father House GardenerRegistered User regular
    man, that is a cool Dave Grohl avatar.

    Good on ya Goose!

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  • LanglyLangly Registered User regular
    the episode where the president makes the speech in the church is one of the best episodes of television that has aired.

  • GalyGaly Registered User regular
    Goose! wrote: »
    The only opinion I've read on it is the only one I need to read (also my own opinion, having seen it, was that it looks good).

    Dan Rather thinks its great. His review is up on Gawker.

    i thought the show was good too *high five*

    but the internet consensus seems to be sliding toward "bad"

    apparently the ratings were good despite the bad reviews:
    http://www.eonline.com/news/five_reasons_aaron_sorkins_lousy_new/325955

    i guess we'll see how the next few episdoes go

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  • ArtreusArtreus I'm a wizard And that looks fucked upRegistered User regular
    Veretas wrote: »
    Of course everyone on facebook is posting this vid right now: http://youtu.be/YI7Oq8y-jXA

    Yell at them

    because I was talking about it with Fire truck and I agree with him that the second half of it is infuriating bullshit

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  • MugginsMuggins Registered User regular
    I don't understand the whole argument about how we as a country were at the top and somehow no longer. He spouts the statistics of where we place in math, science, etc. Yet I don't recall America ever being number 1 at any of those things.

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  • HeisenbergHeisenberg Registered User regular
    This got pretty thoroughly slammed on Metacritic and most reviews I've read say it treats it's audience like morons.

  • LanglyLangly Registered User regular
    It's true, we have actually been doing better since at least 1964, when when first had an international evaluation done.

  • ArtreusArtreus I'm a wizard And that looks fucked upRegistered User regular
    Veretas wrote: »
    I don't understand the whole argument about how we as a country were at the top and somehow no longer. He spouts the statistics of where we place in math, science, etc. Yet I don't recall America ever being number 1 at any of those things.

    Well all those things were true and it sucks but

    How could any of those problems be attributed to the generation of kids?

    Like, I am correct in thinking that he was referring to the 80s-90's generation of kids?

    The ones who have not had any chance to effect any change in the economy, education system, or any of the other things he listed?
    And the other thing

    about how the world was so great before

    You know

    The 50s

    when things were so fucking great for everybody

    and even before then

    yeah

    we were a great goddamn country back then, full of strong, white men

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  • LanglyLangly Registered User regular
    The education stats as a dip in previous excellence are not true. They are actually rising.

  • ShortyShorty touching the meat Intergalactic Cool CourtRegistered User regular
    social network was a well-made movie but wow mark zuckerberg is a dickhead

  • FirmSkaterFirmSkater Registered User regular
    Veretas wrote: »
    Of course everyone on facebook is posting this vid right now: http://youtu.be/YI7Oq8y-jXA

    Like, this doesn't look like it was shot in reality. In reality people scream and yell and shit when you say stuff like this

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  • ShortyShorty touching the meat Intergalactic Cool CourtRegistered User regular
    FirmSkater wrote: »
    Veretas wrote: »
    Of course everyone on facebook is posting this vid right now: http://youtu.be/YI7Oq8y-jXA

    Like, this doesn't look like it was shot in reality. In reality people scream and yell and shit when you say stuff like this

    yes

    he would have been boo'd off the stage before he got to his list

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