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The newsroom
Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2012 9:40 am
by Dave (imported)
THE NEWSROOM
is a new series on HBO that is written by Aaron Sorkin.
It takes real events like the Deepwater Rig burnout and Oil Spill, and this last episode the shooting of Gabrielle Giffords, back engineers the newsroom actions and sets up the characters in world events.
If you watch it, ignore its politics (which lean decidedly left) and watch the personal interactions of the story.
It is a soap opera about a newsroom made real by using real events.
However, at every turn, someone else has a flubbed date or a blown love affair or a wild night of whoopee. We all know what world events were and we're not making ZELIG here. We're making "Real Housewives of Newsrooms"...
It's the backstabbing bitches and bro's that you should enjoy.
It's the amazing personal pettiness that is brought between friends, lovers, enemies and divorcees...
and then there's Bigfoot.
Re: The newsroom
Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2014 7:58 pm
by Dave (imported)
I came back for one final kick in the shins for THE NEWSROOM as it approaches its last episode.
We (think the royal we or the "personal pissed-off we") WE find this sort of criticism of Seasons 1 and 2.
"Brian Lowry of Variety, in a negative review, said: "Ultimately, one neednt be a purveyor of snark to view The Newsroom as a disappointmenttoo smart to be dismissed, but so abrasive as to feel like Media Lectures for Dummies"
There is a distinction without a difference as to why THE NEWSROOM ended but I can tell you the real reason - it sank into talking heads bickering in a fake newsroom. Why on one show this season, there were four simultaneous bickering pairs on the screen at various times during one act of the show. That's why THE NEWSROOM failed. An Audience doesn't want to see people bickering as real drama. The end of season one sank into doldrums. Season two was only mildly received. It was a giant "meh" and "blah" and "not that poo again!" and left the viewer feeling cheated. Sorkin got tired of it and wrote six episodes, one of which copied a fight between Kimmel and someone else (like who really cares about that) and then the supposedly huge, and monstrous and earth shaking "end" and "sale of Atlantis News" - - when channels and stations and newspapers and new magazines are sold all the time.
And THUS, THE NEWSROOM became Not news-worthy and not-buzz-worthy and not-any-more-fun - - so Sorkin ended it and left.
enter - cheap crocodile tears from professional mourners, stage left.
The PREMIER EPISODE promised so much and the rest of the seasons delivered bickering - about news, about relationships, about lunch, about sources, about love affairs and the worst - bickering about whey they were or weren't bickering during that particular scene.
If I wanted a soap opera, I can turn on "As the Stomach Churns" and "Days of Our Lives" or watch repeats of "The Guiding Light" .
Re: The newsroom
Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2014 10:04 pm
by gareth19 (imported)
Dave (imported) wrote: Thu Dec 11, 2014 7:58 pm
I came back for one final kick in the shins for THE NEWSROOM as it approaches its last episode.
We (think the royal we or the "personal pissed-off we") WE find this sort of criticism of Seasons 1 and 2.
"Brian Lowry of Variety, in a negative review, said: "Ultimately, one neednt be a purveyor of snark to view The Newsroom as a disappointmenttoo smart to be dismissed, but so abrasive as to feel like Media Lectures for Dummies"
There is a distinction without a difference as to why THE NEWSROOM ended but I can tell you the real reason - it sank into talking heads bickering in a fake newsroom. Why on one show this season, there were four simultaneous bickering pairs on the screen at various times during one act of the show. That's why THE NEWSROOM failed. An Audience doesn't want to see people bickering as real drama. The end of season one sank into doldrums. Season two was only mildly received. It was a giant "meh" and "blah" and "not that poo again!" and left the viewer feeling cheated. Sorkin got tired of it and wrote six episodes, one of which copied a fight between Kimmel and someone else (like who really cares about that) and then the supposedly huge, and monstrous and earth shaking "end" and "sale of Atlantis News" - - when channels and stations and newspapers and new magazines are sold all the time.
And THUS, THE NEWSROOM became Not news-worthy and not-buzz-worthy and not-any-more-fun - - so Sorkin ended it and left.
enter - cheap crocodile tears from professional mourners, stage left.
The PREMIER EPISODE promised so much and the rest of the seasons delivered bickering - about news, about relationships, about lunch, about sources, about love affairs and the worst - bickering about whey they were or weren't bickering during that particular scene.
If I wanted a soap opera, I can turn on "As the Stomach Churns" and "Days of Our Lives" or watch repeats of "The Guiding Light" .
Look on the bright side. Sam Waterson's character suffered a fatal heart attack. We are spared any more self-righteous hot air.
Re: The newsroom
Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2014 10:23 pm
by Dave (imported)
gareth19 (imported) wrote: Thu Dec 11, 2014 10:04 pm
Look on the bright side. Sam Waterson's character suffered a fatal heart attack. We are spared any more self-righteous hot air.
Yes, thankfully.