Watching it now. Yeah, that was silly.
But it was fun to imagine how a serious, substantive debate might look and sound. <sigh>
That’s interesting, because I’ve been thinking this whole time what an incredibly fake-looking smoker Jeff Daniels is. He doesn’t look convincing to me at all.
I thought last night’s episode was the worst one so far. The idea that the new debate format would ever happen was just ridiculous, and as much as I hate to do it, I was completely with the RNC guy on that matter. A debate where the moderator is free to cut the candidates off and interrupt them at any moment? I’m all for debate reform, but that’s just stupid. Sorkin does realize that the debate is not about the moderator, right?
That scene in the dress shop? Pure agony. And it just . . . kept . . . going. I was so incredibly embarrassed for John Gallagher Jr.
What does this troll storyline with Neal have to do with anything?
And Will can’t put on his pants! Ho ho, how amusing. :rolleyes:
I thought the show had been on something of an upswing for the last two or three episodes, but there were several giant steps backward with this episode.
It’s about THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, DAMMIT! But, yeah, it’s hard to have sympathy for someone with an idealistic dream when they go about pursuing it in such a stupid way.
But don’t forget - Will’s a Republican! And he’s pro-life! Therefore it’s fair!
Hey, even the great ones put on their pants two legs at a time.
And researching this “troll” thing is ridiculous. “There are jerks on the internet! Film at eleven! Also, water wet! Film at eleven!”
Hey, that’s Chris Rock’s dad! I knew he had two job, but I never suspected this! 
Part of my criticism of this show is that it can’t seem to decide what it is. With both *Sports Night * (comedy with some dramatic undertones) and West Wing (drama with a sense of humor), Sorkin managed to strike just the right tone for what they were, and the tone stayed fairly consistent throughout those series. Studio 60 never seemed to find any tone at all; it was just a mess.
The Newsroom isn’t as big a mess as Studio 60, but it alternately feels like both *Sports Night *and West Wing, and can’t seem to settle on any point on the spectrum in between. The resulting whiplash undermines both the comedic and dramatic elements.
Well, you know how Jon Stewart is a comedian who occasionally makes a serious point, and is very good at it?
This is the opposite of that.
According to this GQ thread:
progeny of ambassadors are not considered subject to US law and are thus not automatically awarded citizenship for being born on US soil. So that whole backstory for MacKenzie “being a US citizen because she was born on US soil” is dubious. Of course she could have applied for US citizenship and got it any time later, but she didn’t get it by, as several characters say, “being born on US soil”.
Well, I have to retract this bit of snark in light of the video I saw today.
Marc Hirsh has some fun noting that the News Night crew isn’t so much about doing the hard work of journalism as simply possessing amazing inside connections. 
The season finale was great EXCEPT for two things:
- the relationship b.s.
- Mac AND Maggie both yelling-- geez, those two are hysterical maniacs.
Loved Will’s full-out labeling of the Tea Party. Mainstream republicans (like Will) should be embarrassed and disgusted at them and the way they’ve taken over the party.
I guess we’re in for more relationship crap next season while Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice sort themselves out.
No one watched it?
I actually liked the scene where Maggie ranted at the Sex & The City tour bus. And then when Jim pops up (like we knew he would) it was a good “rom-com” moment. But, yeah, they’re stringing it out too much.
I also liked the scene where they confront Leona and Reese about the phone hacking.
I watched and liked it although like others have mentioned the relationship triangle-of-sorts is really getting old. My bigger problem with it is the object of said relationship drama - I mean c’mon… the woman screams “future psychiatric ward patient” with nearly every breath. She is not particularly attractive, and has those big bulging eyes. She is horribly unstable. Did they say how many times she and Don have broken up and got back together again in the year of the show? Yet she constantly goes back to an unhealthy relationship - a huge warning sign that this is not an emotionally mature and healthy person. This is not exactly someone an outside observer would find as a good catch.
My second gripe was Jane Fonda all of a sudden finding a moral compass. Sorry but that switch was just not believable in any way. Was she really opposed to the wire tapping and ignorant of it occuring? Maybe but the acting and writing didn’t really convey it. Was she in on it the whole time and realized her only option was to deny knowledge and save herself? Again, maybe but the acting and writing didn’t really convey it. I just found that whole change of heart to be very flat.
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I am such a sucker for things like that very last scene where the girl with the question became an intern. Yeah, I teared up.
My wife stayed up; I did not (she liked this ep a lot). Hoping to see it in the next day or two…
That was a West Wing sort of moment.
I really don’t understand why Maggie told Lisa that she thought Jim came to the apartment to ask for her (Maggie). Seriously, why would someone do that, particularly when you have no proof and the other woman in this scenario is your best friend and roommate? Did she even think about how that would sound? “Lisa, Jim might be in love with me, because there’s a possibility that when he came to the apartment, he might have been planning to ask for me instead of you, his girlfriend.”
Both Jim and Don should run as fast as they can.
Um… because Maggie is a bobble-headed idiot?
QFT.
The relationships in this show are too unrealistic, and it’s ruining it for me.
Mac: “Jim, go and have a romantic relationship with that girl, Maggie, I think her name is.”
Jim: “Hmm, don’t mind if I do! Maggie I love you. And, I’m going to date your best friend.”
And Sloan is still single because [strike]Gollum[/strike]Don never asked her out?? Paaaahlease. :smack: