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POLL : What did you think of The Newsroom - The Greater Fool?

27 Aug 2012

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5 comments:

  1. Jonathan Carpenter27 August 2012 at 05:31

    A Liberal Equivalent of "Beating you over the Head with the Bible."

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  2. the dane27 August 2012 at 17:44

    I loved it. I´m gonna miss this show so much.

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  3. Chris Kelly16 September 2012 at 16:57

    Looking forward to next season of this show!

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  4. cmjamieson8 October 2012 at 12:55

    Sorkin strikes again.


    Present is his dialogue, part pitter-patter, part witty, part pedantic, part sentimental pollyanna-ism, part alliteration and part poetry. De-politicalized West Wing.


    Over the top fairy-tales set in modern times with perfectly flawed Byronic heroes. It's so contained in its own broth that it chews like stew and goes down like soup.


    I love Newsroom because it is what it is - it's *trying* to teach us something and makes no bones about it. Like all fairy tales, it has a core where the moral lesson lies and the entire story is aimed at getting to that core and if the characters and lines have to be caricatures and archetypes, so be it. If we need a Campbell's manual of the Hero's Journey to follow it, well, that will only make us smarter and better armed to understand it, right?


    Moments of cringe-worthy, beat-me-over-the-head sentimentality somehow work, even though we are all aware on some level that we are being manipulated with our hearts while our minds were engaged elsewhere. The Rudy story was begging for an ending and it got one, albeit a predictable and *omg did they just do that* moment. Even that didn't annoy me, it just made me smile. Aaron Sorkin may love his words more than anything, he may love banging us around while he entertains us, his high hand always holding a sharp exacto blade (to excise the thinking parts immediately after he engages them) but I must admit - I believe that believing in heroes and good guys is important, that people who live Gandhi's idea of "being the change" are not deluded but heroic and that we laugh sarcastically at Pollyannas because we envy them their optimism. I'm worn out from dystopia and cynicism, I see "gritty" and "real" everyday on the L train. I watch television to be entertained and uplifted, not to be reminded how terrible things can be,

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  5. cmjamieson8 October 2012 at 12:56

    That's actually true.


    Which, ironically, is exactly why I like it :)

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