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  • Mamasan23
    Mamasan23 Posts: 16,390
    Another fantastic episode yesterday. It's so fast-paced and the writing is incredibly witty. I seriously cannot think of a better show on the air right now!
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  • norm
    norm Posts: 31,146
    Mamasan23 wrote:
    Another fantastic episode yesterday. It's so fast-paced and the writing is incredibly witty. I seriously cannot think of a better show on the air right now!

    totally...i hate when it ends...i just want it to go on and on
  • FrankieG
    FrankieG Abingdon MD Posts: 9,100
    Jnich2424 wrote:
    FrankieG wrote:
    IS this available anywhere online? :roll:

    http://one-tvshows.eu/tv/the-newsroom/

    :thumbup: 8-)
    You are the man!
    I will be hopefully watching this later tonight!
    :mrgreen:
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  • FrankieG
    FrankieG Abingdon MD Posts: 9,100
    Watched the first 4 of the past 4 days. #5 gonna watch before the Olympic ceremony tonight.

    :thumbup:

    I have loved the setup so far. Very well written, very well shot, edited, acted, etc

    I have the feeling that Will will get fired eventually. And then hire his entire team to produce an internet version of his current show. But that's just my gut feeling. Proabably not gonna happen...

    But I wish I hadn't have found that link! I can't wait for this weekend's episode to be posted :D haha
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  • Mamasan23
    Mamasan23 Posts: 16,390
    Anyone catch last night's episode? Seriously, this show gets better EVERY week. I thought it was brilliant...just brilliant. When Don was raving on the plane and the captain came out...wow...that moment gave me the chills.

    Well done HBO!
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  • norm
    norm Posts: 31,146
    will totally stoned on the night bin laden was killed was fucking perfect :lol::lol:

    and everyone on the plane knew about don, maggie and jim :lol::lol:
  • Mamasan23
    Mamasan23 Posts: 16,390
    norm wrote:
    will totally stoned on the night bin laden was killed was fucking perfect :lol::lol:

    and everyone on the plane knew about don, maggie and jim :lol::lol:

    :lol::lol: It's amazing how they have such heavy subject matter at times, yet they're able to work in some pretty good comedy...the whole Don, Maggie, and Jim love triangle is pretty good!

    I kinda missed some of Charlie's conversation in the beginning so I'm not 100% clear on what that whole phone call business was...will have to do a rewatch.
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  • norm
    norm Posts: 31,146
    Mamasan23 wrote:
    I kinda missed some of Charlie's conversation in the beginning so I'm not 100% clear on what that whole phone call business was...will have to do a rewatch.

    multiple watched is a must...the "deep throat" character was establishing his credibility by letting charlie knew he knew about obl...at the end he called again and he has information on the acm hacking phones on their own people (a la news corp hacking scandal)
  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    My wife and I are big Sorkin fans (her friends call us Whorkins :)), so obviously we were excited about this show. I wasn't feeling it at the beginning and thought the 4th episode (coldplay at the end) was really bad. We had the next couple of episodes on DVR for awhile because we just weren't feeling it. Last Thursday we had a free night and decided to watch it and we really loved the last two episodes (5 and 6) so much that we watched the Bin Laden episode last night.

    It definitely seems to be finding it's stride.
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  • Mamasan23
    Mamasan23 Posts: 16,390
    norm wrote:
    Mamasan23 wrote:
    I kinda missed some of Charlie's conversation in the beginning so I'm not 100% clear on what that whole phone call business was...will have to do a rewatch.

    multiple watched is a must...the "deep throat" character was establishing his credibility by letting charlie knew he knew about obl...at the end he called again and he has information on the acm hacking phones on their own people (a la news corp hacking scandal)

    Oh!!!! Okay that makes sense then, thanks! I'll still do a re-watch just because it's that good :mrgreen:
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  • PJFAN13
    PJFAN13 Posts: 1,422
    SO great to have Sunday nights be must see TV - 'Breaking Bad' @ 7 then 'Newsroom' @ 8 - so awesome.
    This show has absolutely been awesome, last nights episode was brilliant, and imo the best one. Funny, heart-wretching, edge of your seat stuff from the get go. Sorkin at his best, for sure.
    Cannot wait for the next 3 episodes - there are some serious things going down! (Will in the hospital bed, Jane Fonda telling Will he's fired, etc...)
    I just hope the love stories don't take away from the heart and fast pace of this show. (ie Jim & Maggie nonsense)...
    'Sex and the City' sucked when it turned into Big/Carrie drama...I don't want this show to suffer that way :nono:
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  • gimmesometruth27
    gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 24,459
    great episode last night. i can't believe that in the show a year has already passed. i loved will being out of his head :lol: it was also cool to see the reactions of the 2 cops, the crew of the plane, and the lady who lost her dad in the wtc. i rarely think of 9/11 from the perspective of the people directly impacted by it so that was a nice touch from sorkin.

    hey guys, is it just me, or if maggie looked at me the way she looks at jim i would melt....

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  • PissBottleMan
    PissBottleMan Union City, TN Posts: 4,155
    I don't understand why people don't like this show. Great dialog and interesting characters.

    Glad it's picked up for a second season.

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  • FrankieG
    FrankieG Abingdon MD Posts: 9,100
    gimmesometruth27 wrote:
    hey guys, is it just me, or if maggie looked at me the way she looks at jim i would melt....

    :oops:
    yupp


    Just watched episode 7 last night. I loved how Sorkin creates these perfect situations for these characters. The breaking news happening at a party after Will got stoned and the other anchors were on a plane. Sorkin was able to really illustrate the many different meanings that killing osama really meant: to reporters, american public, the pilots, people who loved someone who died, cops, the control room fire fighter, the bodyguard MP. It was a very special moment in the series.
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  • pjhawks
    pjhawks Posts: 12,963
    the 2 last episodes, bullies and the bin laden one have been fantastic. bin laden one gave me chills and honestly a few tears (anything 9/11 related gets to me - and i was at the Mets-Phillies game that night that Jim was watching on the internet. youtube the reaction of fans at that game when word spread if you haven't seen it before, awesome to be in public that night).

    this show has gotten better and better with each episode as character's have developed. Jeff Daniels is just great. Really starting to enjoy Don and Jim's characters. Maggie is incredibly annoying.
  • FrankieG
    FrankieG Abingdon MD Posts: 9,100
    pjhawks wrote:
    the 2 last episodes, bullies and the bin laden one have been fantastic. bin laden one gave me chills and honestly a few tears (anything 9/11 related gets to me - and i was at the Mets-Phillies game that night that Jim was watching on the internet. youtube the reaction of fans at that game when word spread if you haven't seen it before, awesome to be in public that night).

    I will have to to youtube that. I was in my apartment and didn't get to see everyone's reactions. I guess that's why this episode really hit me harder than when it was actually announced.

    Anyone know why the bin laden apisode is titled "5/1"? Usually the reason for the title is obvious halfway through, but all i can think of for this on would be Charlie going against 5 people saying that they should let Obama announce it first. (When I first saw the title I immediately thought of Animal :lol::) )
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  • norm
    norm Posts: 31,146
    FrankieG wrote:
    Anyone know why the bin laden apisode is titled "5/1"? Usually the reason for the title is obvious halfway through, but all i can think of for this on would be Charlie going against 5 people saying that they should let Obama announce it first. (When I first saw the title I immediately thought of Animal :lol::) )

    may 1st, 2011...the day we killed obl ;)
  • FrankieG
    FrankieG Abingdon MD Posts: 9,100
    norm wrote:
    FrankieG wrote:
    Anyone know why the bin laden apisode is titled "5/1"? Usually the reason for the title is obvious halfway through, but all i can think of for this on would be Charlie going against 5 people saying that they should let Obama announce it first. (When I first saw the title I immediately thought of Animal :lol::) )

    may 1st, 2011...the day we killed obl ;)

    :fp: They don't usually give the story up that easily so I wasn't thinking that at all... Thanks!
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  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    pjhawks wrote:
    this show has gotten better and better with each episode as character's have developed. Jeff Daniels is just great. Really starting to enjoy Don and Jim's characters. Maggie is incredibly annoying.

    Maggie is incredibly annoying. I was shocked when someone said she was hot. Lisa is a lot hotter.

    Her boyfriend, Don? is also annoying.
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  • intodeep
    intodeep Posts: 7,249
    There are moments when the dialog and the show are brillant. I've watched every episode because when it is good it is really good.

    what i don't like is it seems to lean towards bashing republicans or conservatives. Now i'm a libearl, but if you are going to do a news show about the "real news" lets show both sides screwing up.

    That i can let go, but for as many times as they hit a great moment there are parts that annoy the shit out of me.
    I don't thin it is realistic for the anchor guy to be able to pull it together so quickly when 10 minutes before he was stone out of his gord. That annoys me.

    some of the situations are unrealistic in my mind. What adult has a drag out argumetn with their gf at their place of work? What news anchor who is in trouble with the tabloids and trying ot keep it clean brings outa bag of pot brownies in the middle of a party with all of his workers.

    The dialogue between maggie and her little boy crush is cringe worthy at times :?

    It has good parts but it never seems to pull it all together.I think the closest they came was two episodes ago. I thought that was teh best one so far.

    I'll watch the entire season to see if they find themselves because there is some good stuff here, but i'm not holding my breath.
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