The Newsroom- Page 2

[gchris11]

Posted: 7/4/13 at 5:23pm

This is really a good show. I love the B'way references.

[gchris11]

Posted: 7/4/13 at 6:47pm

Is that Jane Fonda???

[Marnie2]

Posted: 7/4/13 at 7:11pm

Yep! she's great when shes in it but thats not very often

funny good clip of her talking about it here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dx1IGh06jSs

[GavestonPS]

Posted: 7/4/13 at 7:32pm

Couldn't stand Sorkin's dialogue. I always thought it sounded like pretentious Harvard undergraduates staying up late to talk when they couldn't get dates.

Then he wrote THE SOCIAL NETWORK, which was actually about said undergrads, and I began to appreciate Sorkin's writing.

THE NEWSROOM is pretty much my favorite show on TV. I guess there was a learning curve.

[dramamama611]

Posted: 7/4/13 at 7:44pm

Funny thing: I hated the Social Network, with a passion.

(but I love me some Newsroom!)

[GavestonPS]

Posted: 7/4/13 at 7:46pm

I guess no two curves are exactly alike, dmama. LOL.

[ratherbewhaling]

Posted: 7/5/13 at 12:19am

I remember seeing Aaron Sorkin on the Colbert Report and learning that he did in fact, major in musical theater.

Colbert even sang a bit of "Finishing The Hat" to him

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/360641/september-30-2010/aaron-sorkin

[gchris11]

Posted: 7/5/13 at 1:42am

episode 5 just got me.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 7/5/13 at 8:24am

I appreciate the way they teach us how the news networks should have handled the news a year ago. Or rather, I appreciate the way they teach us MSNBC and Comedy Central handled the news a year ago but pretend like they are doing something revolutionary. L(ots) O(f) L(ove)! Bitches, they dumb, amirite?

[Wilmingtom]

Posted: 7/5/13 at 3:22pm

Love this show, as I did "West Wing." Very smart and engaging, great cast, well directed. Look for a musical from Sorkin in the not-too-distant future.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 7/5/13 at 11:07pm

I just started watching this because it's not a party if I'm not late to it. I like it so far, though I'm not completely sold and I can't even believe I'm voluntarily watching something that Alison Pill is in so goddamned much but anyway. That "5/1" episode. So so good.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 7/5/13 at 11:40pm

Alison Pill carries her head and neck so oddly on it.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 7/5/13 at 11:41pm

Don't be such a Pill!

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 7/5/13 at 11:52pm

I was not a fan before this and will not be won over, but my GOD, her weird rash movements are so distracting. Is it an attempt at physical comedy? Is it a choice? What is it?!

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 7/5/13 at 11:54pm

You're bad mouthing the same woman who taught that little retarded girl how to say "water" on Broadway. Real nice, guys.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 7/5/13 at 11:55pm

I'M SORRY OKAY.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 7/6/13 at 12:10am

"I don't care if its realistic or not, as I know nothing about the world of producing a news program."

Which is why it should have been a crime to have the Mary Tyler Moore show out of syndication for so long.

[GavestonPS]

Posted: 7/6/13 at 9:30pm

^^^^Could not agree more about the MTM SHOW! What was up with that?

"Or rather, I appreciate the way they teach us (how) MSNBC and Comedy Central handled the news a year ago but pretend like they are doing something revolutionary."

I couldn't help but notice this week that MSNBC has been leaving one segment per hour to deal with the George Zimmerman trial. And not in a "What does this say about race in America?" way, but pretty much the same coverage one can find on Nancy Grace--albeit without the screaming.

If anything, it is the very capitulation that the fictional crew on NETWORK NEWS stepped back from doing.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 7/6/13 at 9:32pm

The CW should reboot MTM and have it be about a sexy girl just out of school who gets a job at a Hollywood tabloid magazine.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 7/6/13 at 9:36pm

And she'll have this sassy friend named L'Rhoda who comes into her apartment and says things like "What's Happenin'?!" or "Giiiiiiiiiiirl....".

[Kad]

Posted: 7/6/13 at 10:50pm

"Look for a musical from Sorkin in the not-too-distant future."

Well, he's dropped out of at least two in the last few years.

[Wynbish]

Posted: 7/6/13 at 10:52pm

"5/1" is my favorite hour of television in the past year or more

[logan2]

Posted: 7/7/13 at 12:27am

I love this show, and Sorkin's writing. So is he still doing the script for Follies? And is Follies still being made? Of all the musicals that have been or will be made into movies, THAT is the one I'm really looking forward to.

If done correctly, it could be devastatingly, hauntingly, brilliant. And even if they screw it up, I know it will still be one of my all time favorite movie musicals.

[Owen22]

Posted: 7/7/13 at 5:36pm

I LOVE this show. And not just because one of the stars is my age inappropriate boyfriend, Broadway's own John Gallagher, Jr.

And I'm a sucker for Sorkin dialogue.