Amph The Newsroom

I am very excited to see how the Genoa thing is going to go down in the next episode. Also season two has finally gotten this shows characters into love relationships I can care about. Don/Sloan and Jim/Hallie(Hollie?) are much more believable and real than any of the season one hookups.

 

I had been wondering all along how they would be able to frame the story as the core editorial staff have been shown to be at a level of competence that a "he said, she said" situation would be a cop out. But the minute they had the bit about not being able to get the game out of the shot I had my answer on the how of Jerry being caught out.

I'm loving the amount of good screen time Munn is getting this season. First the story and scenes with Sadoski, plus the subtle touch in the brush past with Waterson. Now the scenes she got with Daniels this week and the interplay there. Classic Sorkin interpersonal interaction where there is as much not being said as actually said, just like it would be between two people with the level of closeness they are trying to convey. The Don and Mac conversation was also a nice touch.

 

I really enjoyed the first season of this show. Everything seemed to click for me there, Will's disillusionment - them wanting to make a far more fact based accounting of the news than we actually get, and even the anti right wing stuff.

This season has kinda dropped the ball for me. I feel like Will, while still shown as being a card carrying Republican, is really far less convincing than he was written to be in season 1. Instead of getting the vibe that he wants to change the Republican party, I now feel like he is a mouthpiece who wants to do nothing more than destroy anything and everything right wing.

They even tease at this at the start of the season when Charlie pokes Will about being a Republican, and Will's sarcastic response is that he wants to change the party from within. He doesn't give specifics, he doesn't say what is right or who he admires in the party - it is just played as a joke.

Don't get me wrong, between the Tea Party, Rush Limbaugh running for Republican Leadership, women in binders and anti gay propaganda - they are easy targets. But if they want me to believe that Will is actually a Republican loyalist they need to do a better job of framing that. In my opinion one of the best episodes of Season 1 was when Will gets torn apart by the gay Santorum representitive because he ignorantly pushes to hard at 'his' agenda.

The show needs more of a balance of Will being always right, and him slipping up or just being flat out wrong.

Oh, and most, if not all of the relationship stuff is yawn worthy.

 

this show gets better every freaking episode. and now i have a bigger crush on jane fonda than olivia munn.

that ending! so full of win.

 

I will concur with the sentiment here about last night's episode*... aside from the twist of Charlie's inside source being in on the Genoa hoax, I loved Will's "it's always that one thing" monologue in his scene with Marcia Gay Harden, and Don's scene with her earlier in the episode. Too bad we've got to wait 2 weeks until the next episode, and that this season will end with 9 of them, instead of last season's 10.



*I can't keep track of the Maggie hair timeline anymore, though. It's too confusing.

 

That episode was basically a master class in pacing and story reveal.

 

One of the best episodes. Every actor seemed to have a great part that kept building the tension. Will's monologue, Mac's discovery, Charlie's confrontation. And then Jane Fonda's Leona came in and just blew them all out of the water. She definitely stole the show last night.

 

http://variety.com/2013/more/news/newsroom-renewed-for-third-season-by-hbo-1200598009/]Good[/url] news, everyone!: Newsroom renewed for season 3


Niiiiiiiiiice.

 

i'm so pumped for next week! ​

 

I couldn't quite make out what he yelled there, though. But still, as always in this show, Waterson is pure gold (re: his "we've gone to the zoo" rant earlier in the episode, and him try to get Reese to convince Leona to accept their resignations). Strange to see Mac so defeated & miserable (well, that miserable), and the less of Maggie taunting Jim, the better (the only really weak link of last night's episode). I wonder if we'll find out who bought Sloan's book from that auction, because with all the attention paid to it, there better a nifty payoff there. The finale next week ought to be really really, really good.

 

Season two has been lightyears ahead of season one. I can't wait to see how Sorkin finsihes it off. And with the recent News of the renewel for S3, things are lookin up!

I do hope Hailie(?) doesn't betray Jim and spill the beans, but I've got a bad feeling she will.

Jerry suing Don is such a jerk move, that guy just gets worse and worse all the time.

 

I hope they keep Constance Zimmerman around for next season. With Don having transformed from the first episode to now and being a much more sympathetic character they need someone to be the abrasive foil, especially for Jim. Frankly that character has been languishing for the majority of the season, and that's because of they way he is presented, you need a strong and smart counterpoint to make any conflict work.

 

She was very good in a similar role on Entourage... I very much concur that her character/presence this season has been a huge plus.

 

Yeah, Boston Legal is where I first saw her as well, and she held her own with the top tier actors that headlined it which is no mean feat.