It’s like Napoleon Dynamite reading Talking Points Memo out loud.
Did anyone get the same feeling I did from watching Will masochistically read “We Hate Will” websites that Sorkin also does this?
I’d have to freeze-frame and zoom in to see if any of the fictionalized criticisms of Will are even a fraction as coherent as ours of Sorkin.
The timing of Troy Davis’ death doesn’t fit for a 9:00 pm show, does it? Also, was it “breaking news” for anyone that night?
You can box it if you want to.
Maggie’s story is making me very anxious. I stopped watching when she and Gary Cooper find out they are going to have to spend the night at the orphanage. I’m afraid of what’s coming. Somebody please tell me before I watch the recording. I’m guessing something catastrophically traumatic happens to her and/or the boy Daniel. I want to know what, before I watch it. Thank you.
I’m going to go watch DogTV for a while…
The kid gets killed which is why Maggie goes off the rails and cuts her hair. That’s what your anxiety is over, the real spoiler is what they were after when they were shooting at the kid. Nothing to stop you from watching, mind you, but it’ll have play into why she went nuts, I assume.
And maybe I just keep missing it, or maybe it hasn’t been explained, but can someone tell me why she’s being interviewed. So far, from what I can gather, it’s a wrongful termination suit, she’s possibly a defendant or at least a witness (they said the video may go to the plaintiff) and I think those are ACN lawyers.
Was Will fired? Last week they talked about him saying something on the air. Not the American Taliban thing, something else…or was it all part of that? Sometimes this show has to many things going on for it’s own good.
“There’s this guy down in Zucotti Park who’s NGO was shut down because he wrote a report saying Americans used chemical weapons in Pakistan”
“Wait, what???”
“There’s this guy down in Zucotti Park who’s NGO was shut down because he wrote a report saying Americans used chemical weapons in Pakistan”
“Tell it to this other guy!”
“There’s this guy down in Zucotti Park who’s NGO was shut down because he wrote a report saying Americans used chemical weapons in Pakistan”
[later…]
“We need to meet that guy you were talking about before for a story!”
“WHAT STORY IS IT? YOU NEED TO TELL ME WHAT THE STORY IS”
Thanks. When she started reading to the kid, I spotted his (virtual) red shirt.
That episode was as bad as anything. I think my mind immediately rebelled against the obvious (as ThelmaLou put it) Red Shirt kid and refused to feel any empathy in response to the ham-handed emotional manipulation. The kid with Romney was a sack of stupid and deserves to be fired. The OWS plot was at least amusing in places.
She was being interviewed because she was at the interview with the general that (we can assume based on the CNN scandal that Genoa is based on) was doctored. Her job as an ACN employee is to verify that the tape was doctored, which she can do because she was at the interview. She had to tell the story of Africa because…well in the world of the TV show it somehow goes to her state of mind at the time she was at the interview several months later. Maybe they are expecting the plaintiff to claim that she was out of her mind and not paying close attention to the interview. Hard to say right now.
The plaintiff is not Will, the first episode made it obvious that he is still an ACN employee. They are setting it up to be the new producer whatsisnamenotjim, so my guess is that it is actually the other anchor, Elliot, who got fired. But that’s just me trying to play the “what are they actually doing while they are waving at us to look in the other direction” game. It might actually be the other producer.
I think we can safely assume impassioned, articulate, off-the-cuff speeches will come into play at some point.
I just canceled HBO. Fuck these useless, smug, hysterical, motor-mouth people and the herd or horses they rode in on. Grrr.
I suggest everyone boycott The Newsroom and start watching DogTV. Right now it’s showing a darling yellow lab waking up from a nap and looking around. Thin on plot but big on genuine feeling and intelligence. A zillion times more satisfying than Will & Co. I’m outta here.
I guess I’m in the minority, because I’m still liking the show. I wasn’t sure if the kid was the intended victim or the red-herring for Gary’s death. I caught that the lawyer asked if that is his name, and not was, but I wasn’t sure if that was another red-herring.
I also liked them going after the OWS girl so much. And Will’s stuff at the end. Honest and open, even when they didn’t need her anymore.
I like it too. I enjoyed yesterday’s episode very much. I felt that they were poking fun at themselves just a little bit, while weaving an interesting story. I found the exact reason she cut and died her hair very poignant.
I love Charlie so very much, they can emotionally manipulate me all over the place as long as I get to keep seeing delicious bits of Charlies dialogue.
Those were my favorite parts from this episode. But my eyes nearly rolled out of my head when the OWS girl just happened to have a source for their nearly-dead Genoa story.
And everything with Maggie in Africa was pretty cliche.
I loved that part. It was a wink to the audience.
Our lead is dead! It’s not like a lead will drop in our lap! Uh guys, I have a lead. What?
I thought it was great.
Yeah, they tried to lampshade it but it was still ridiculous and they’ve had similar coincidences too often before. It’s just bad, lazy writing.
This is my main problem with the show.
It’s the only reason to watch Sorkin and Sorkin is keenly aware of it. I mean, how many of us are still hooked mainly from the very first speech from season 1 episode 1?
“You should include in the ad that the applicant must be able to do hard things.”
As for an opinion that’s not in response to a quote? I hate that lawyer and her interaction with Maggie. Neither can pull off the dialogue written for them in their little repartee.