Am super excited for this one. Saving it up to watch tomorrow night over mushroom ragout with some fellow Sorkin diehards. Can't wait!

enjoyed the first ep, liked his opening tirade a lot, and the machinations of the developing story. well done i thought, look forward to seeing how this goes

liked his opening tirade a lot

Me too, especially the bit about how Americans used to aspire to intelligence, not be intimidated by it.

Thought there were some clunky bits in the first ep, and some hugely obvious set-ups, but first episodes are often a bit rough. Am really looking forward to what's coming up.

yeah, should be good. i didn't mind the first episode.

Sadly, this is a steaming pile of shit. Could only make it halfway through ep 2.

The GFC has finally caught up with HBO or they've just got screenwriting amnesia and forgotten the golden rule: show don't tell.

The reviews for this have been shocking, making it sound like rubbish. Is it?

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It is not a patch on The West Wing.

Just seems like they are putting this out with a seriously reduced writing team. With an extra couple of script edits it could be good but the incessant over acted two character conversations make it tedious at best, boring at worst.

I wish I loved.

Soundtrack is also pretty gross.

Main concerns would be the naive intern character and the obvious romantic set ups.

incessant over acted two character conversations

This.

has everyone seen that ''sorkinisms'' video that's been doing the rounds? hella funny.

fuck it. it's never going to improve. let's all agree to stop watching and never speak of this show again

i'll keep watching, nothing else on at the minute, and i liked the first ep. easy pleased i guess, though i can see what people are bleeting about

Me too magoo. I'm in a fairly non-critical phase of my life when it comes to watching tellie. Never seen the West Wing myself, so maybe wasn't expecting so much

Well done on HBO for disregarding the ridiculous Sorkin backlash and renewing it for a second season. I think this show is going to be really great once it hits its stride.

CRINGE!

It's no Studio 60
It's worse
It's

Burn

wow. after a solid opening, the second episode is FUCKED... and i'm only 2/3 through.

oh jesus, it actually just closed with two scenes set to radiohead's high and dry and a karaoke version of radiohead's high and dry respectively.

why don't these assholes know how to have their loud, boring, obnoxiously personal conversations in private?

has there ever been a bigger difference in quality in two consecutive episodes in the history of television?

Sorkin/the writers definitely didn't pull any punches with Will's final script, after his meeting with the network heads.

By this I meant that whoever wrote the script isn't afraid to show their disdain for the Tea Party. Lost my train of thought a little, apologies.

Also interesting how the Republican debate didn't figure into the final ep at all. They'd built it up for a few episodes as their major goal, then it slipped away with barely a whimper. Now I understand the scene of the two RNC guys in the bar, watching a rival network host the debate and the candidates answering inane questions about Elvis etc. Perhaps I'm slow.

the love quadrangle between maggie/don/lisa/the other guy/and now sloan (make that a love pentagon) is pretty silly. but i thought it was an okay season.

was that NSA guy prop joe?

Nah, different actor.

Biggest gripe with this (apart from the terrible love triangle bullshit) is the music. Sounds like its from Anne of fucking Green Gables or something similar...

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''accidentally''. Ugh. Man the whole sex tape/topless pictures approach to fame is such utter bullshit.

added 6000 twitter followers

watched the last few eps on Fox after the last couple of weeks

this show is good when it sticks to the issues of the day, the Tea Party stuff is excellent, same with the phone tapping. BUT it is so ridiculously awful when it gets into the relationship stuff, couldn't believe how bad they did this in the finale

It's just dawned on me that I've never made it all the way through a Aaron Sorkin series. Abandoned Sports Night, West Wing and now Newsroom. I'm never usually anabandoner.

I haven't read any of this thread, but I am up to the episode that ended with 'you're a newsman!' fist-pumping and a five minute montage put to the adult-contemporary sounds of Coldplay. As this feels like the obvious zenith of modern television, can anyone give me a good reason to persist with this show?

Try to couch your answer without spoilers.

The answer is no, essentially. There's lots to dislike about this show. But I will keep watching it because... I work in the media, I guess.

I basically just enjoy hate-watching it.

I tried to get into this but the missus and I gave up after a few episodes. The characters are one dimensional, boring and talk really fast about uninteresting topics. That blonde intern chick whose fucking one or two of the other interns annoys me the most.

RussianCaravan!!!! You're back! Great to see you here again.

I get enough of a buzz out of the energy of the setting and the entwining of the storylines to keep watching though the parochialism and the odd Coldplay montage moment puts me off. Plus the office romance subplot is cringe-inducing at times, but Jeff Daniels is excellent and the writing is fast enough to keep the 'what's going to happen next' factor a motivator.

the show's pretty bad. but funny enough.

my wife and i always remember stephen colbert chastising ''your hard nosed wil mcavoy types in the media'' and have a laugh.

Yeah, look, I would just prefer to watch a show where the characters talk more about their feelings and their sex lives. Preferably while working in the pressure-cooker control room of a live TV broadcast within earshot of their work colleagues.

I guess what I am asking is, when does Sam Seaborne come back into the show?

Hi astrousers! It's nice to see you too!

If anyone wants a vague idea of the news topics they'll be covering in S2, it's here.

thanks russian. glad the article gave the release date of the next series... JUNE! and here i was, carefully checking imdb & darker places for the next season...

hopefully it won't be as woeful as series one. let's all clap for the lefty!