Opening scene to 'The Newsroom' (Wow, just wow!)

[Are_grits_groceries]

I don't watch this show, but this is a hell of a statement!

[LiberalLoner]

1. I think I will start watching that show. I hope the rest of the show is this good...

[Control-Z]

7. Last night's episode

was better than the one the week before. And last week's was better than the week before that. It just gets better with each new episode. I kid you not. It is a phenomenal show.

[dhill926]

41. exactly......

we watched three episodes in a row last night trying to play catch up. You can see and hear the improvement from episode to episode. So nice to have some intelligent writing on the tube again.

[Blue_In_AK]

43. I agree.

I wasn't real crazy about it at first, but it's growing on me.

[MurrayDelph]

9. Do it.

It is possibly the best show on TV.

But try not to think of Keith Olbermann.

[Firebrand Gary]

2. This is by far the best show on television. I can't get enough, last nights episode called 5/1

Was OMG unreal, I wept. True story is actually got me all choked up! Aaron Sorkin is a genus!

[Volaris]

3. Yeah this is one of the best shows on television.

Jeff Daniels is THE MAN in this, and the rest of the cast is stellar, as well.

[Pisces]

4. Its good, but not the best. The female characters are too ditzy and the dialogue a little to witty

non stop. I am embarrassed for these women and the shows writers that they feel they have to make them somewhat
incapable without the help of a man.

[catbyte]

28. You actually think Mac needs any man's help?!?

That's not what I got and the men are just as ditzy. Think out of the box?

[Cary]

5. He berates liberals for losing?

He positively slams "conservatives" and rightfully so. But we liberals are to blame because a significant part of our population is stupid?

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

10. Yes.

If we can't explain to a $20,000/year sales clerk why voting for the Republican Party is a bad idea, then we're to blame. It's our fucking fault that for the past thirty years we've been unable to craft a message that resonates with equal power to "Lower Taxes. Less Government."

And then they're all the whining, which I personally can't stand in the least.

[Cary]

11. I don't accept this Jeff

If WE, THE PEOPLE can't understand that voting for the Republican Party is a bad idea then WE, THE PEOPLE deserve what we get. That I will agree with. Republicans are not fit to govern and we collectively fail when we allow them to screw us over. However it is not the fault of liberals.

These things tend to be cyclical.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

14. I don't care...

Your acceptance doesn't win or lose elections.

We won in 2008 because the biggest fuck-up in American History spent eight years screwing up the country like few predecessors could have imagined in their worst nightmares. And then we barely won. And when we tried to fix things, we lost control of the House. We don't win on the basis of our ideas -- we win because Republicans are so massively craven and incompetent that for a moment, people vote for us out of desperation. The minute they don't feel desperate, they go back to the Republicans.

[Cary]

15. We win if we turn out and we vote

If not, we lose.

[trumad]

16. Dude---you haven't been paying attention...

The Republican party is on the verge of extinction.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

17. To be replace by....(nt)

[Cary]

35. That's an interesting question.

I personally like Thom Hartmann's take on it. His theory is that the radicals hijack the Republican Party every 30 years or so. Eventually they flame out and yield to their moderates.

The idea that the radicals can be successful in the long run does defy logic. Simply look at what happens when they get into power. Their record is atrocious.

[Comrade Grumpy]

40. Which is why it controls the House of Representatives?

And most governorships and a whole bunch of state legislatures?

Would that it were so. Maybe it'll implode in November. That would be nice.

[trumad]

42. It will take a little more time..

You do know that Red states are quickly becoming Blue?

[Son of Gob]

19. Winning by 192 electoral votes is not barely winning.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

39. Yes...

But winning the popular vote with 53% given the economic crisis and two active wars, especially when you're running against a candidate who could not name one (not ONE) Bush Administration initiative he would have handled differently is pretty damned shocking.

Given the history of the previous eight years, 47% of the American people were ready to keep doing what we'd been doing and hope for a better result.

[Bluenorthwest]

32. When you say much of the population is stupid, that sounds just like that Romney supporter who

said 'the common people just don't understand' only in cruder terms.

[Cary]

33. I'm sorry but I have no better explanation for "conservatives"

Let's face it, half the population has an IQ under 100. Right?

[HappyMe]

6. Meh.

It tries too hard.

[dogknob]

20. Go "meh" yourself

If you can't change anything by sitting in your little bubble and bitching to people who generally agree with you then it just isn't worth it, huh?

[HappyMe]

22. What the fuck are you talking about?

I just don't care for the tv show. That's all.

[DisgustipatedinCA]

21. It tries to hard? I don't even begin to understand what that means, suspect you don't either.

[HappyMe]

23. Nice.

I merely said that I didn't like the tv show.

Now, you are implying I'm stupid? Get over yourself.

[Kurovski]

34. While I gave this a rec, I thought it to be exceeding self-conscious and artificial.

Probably a director's fault, and some over- heated writing.

But it has a core idea I found to be compelling enough to recommend it.

Television is a weird thing.

[MADem]

26. Anyone who loves the show, IGNORE THIS SUBTHREAD, please--I don't feel like fighting.

I don't mind a dissenting opinion.

I am considering--since I am trapped in "Heatville" and foregoing my usual summer holiday--getting HBO a bit early (I'll get it for BOARDWALK EMPIRE, because I like that show, but I'm cheap and turn it off to save a few bucks).

Tell me what you honestly think about the program--when you say "Tries too hard" are you saying it is a bit preachy, or that the writing isn't good, the characters too broadly drawn? How many episodes did you watch before you gave up, or are you still watching and just not enthused?

I haven't seen the show; just wondering if you regard it as just OK or awful or something else.

[catbyte]

30. i got hbo for true blood but now am hooked on newsroom.

[dsc]

47. I has its moments

but there are also problems. Criminal under use of Jane Fonda is one. The ditzy women syndrome that sadly often happens in Sorkin land. On the plus side Jeff Daniels is nothing short of riveting. Dev Patel and the guy who plays the other mid level staffer are also great. It is fascinating to see the news room when they stay out of the ditzy personal drama drivel. As a whole I recommend it.

[lapfog_1]

8. "We made war on poverty not on poor people" - n/t

[demosincebirth]

36. the war on poverty had to morph into and against rightwing, teabaggers and their army of fools.

[1StrongBlackMan]

12. Synopsis please ...

Also, what channel and when is it aired?

[lunatica]

13. HBO on Sunday nights

A news show that decides to tell the truth. Dialogue driven and based on true things that have happened in the last year or so.

[1StrongBlackMan]

18. Thanks ...

Oh well ... don't/won't get HBO.

[dixiegrrrrl]

25. Think an updated West Wing.

Same writer, same tone. Intelligent, fast paced, moving, articulate. And has already been picked up for Season 2
( thanks, HBO).
It IS among the best of the best in television. I am keeping all the episodes.

Not a perfect show, could lose the relationship issues, but still, heads above almost anything out there.

HBO, sunday nights.

[MADem]

27. Does it conflict with Breaking Bad?

WTF is it with the networks, public, cable and premium, putting all the good shit on at the same time? They're like pigs fighting over a single slop bowl, when there are other slop bowls popping up seven days a week that are ignored, completely!

It's why the "TV" model is going by the wayside. People prefer to be able to sample what they please, when they please.

[Bluenorthwest]

29. The time a program is 'on' is now actually not so important.

If I miss Newsroom, I watch it two hours later, or on drv, or On Demand, or on my computer, the tablet, you name it. What's changing is programming models and tactics.

[MADem]

31. I don't have a DVR. Too cheap. One day, maybe.

On Demand makes me wait a day.

I don't have a "new" tv, so I don't have my computer "sync'd" to the telly.

I have a flat screen television...with a cathode ray tube. It was expensive at the time, has a very nice picture, still, and I'm getting my money's worth out of it!

[aikoaiko]

37. I like Newsroom, but the acting and writing doesn't seem as effortless as West Wing.

Maybe they'll get in a better flow soon.

[dixiegrrrrl]

44. Did you notice that the guy on Newsroom

who plays Elliot Hersch looks a lot like
John Spencer who played Leo McGarry on West Wing?

[Kurovski]

46. It's really true that most shows need 3-6 episodes to hit their stride. Nt

[uponit7771]

38. Newsroom has potentional and some decent sub plots, hopefully they can go up from where they started

[hwmnbn]

45. It's a GREAT SHOW...

Do yourself a favor and start watching if you can. I am HOOKED!!