New ‘Newsroom’ trailer with season 2 footage. I’m glad they made it out of the desert.
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Trailer: ‘The Newsroom’ Season 2
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Watch: ‘The Newsroom’ Season 2: Behind the Scenes (by HBO)
But in the nine months since “I’ll Try To Fix You” aired, something strange has happened: while still mocked, the episode has become prescriptive and culturally omnipresent. Every time one of the cable news networks disseminates wrongful information — as CNN did yesterday when it reported a “dark skinned” suspect had been taken into custody in the Boston bombings only to spend an hour walking that particular untruth back— twitter fills up with jokes about “The Newsroom.” Every time the cable networks mess up in the way— as they did by IDing Ryan Lanza as the shooter at Newtown, as they did yesterday, as they did before “Newsroom” ever aired with the botching of Affordable Care Act decision — we now describe it, even as we sneer, in terms of “The Newsroom.” “My Twitter feed just wrote an episode of The Newsroom,” someone tweeted yesterday.
TV Promo: ‘The Newsroom’ Season 2
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HBO has posted the first episode of Sorkin’s divisive new show online in full. It’s not embeddable though, so you’ll have to click through to watch.
By now you’ve probably read a couple of “Newsroom” reviews. Some of them are not very favorable, including HuffPost TV’s Maureen Ryan’s, but Maggie Furlong says “The Newsroom” might be one of Aaron Sorkin’s smartest shows.
Some contrarian argument to balance out the hate.
I haven’t seen a lot of what’s on HBO right now, and so I don’t know if what I’m writing has anything to do with what else is on TV … I’m about to write our season finale, and I don’t know what the expectation is for season finales. Are you supposed to write a cliffhanger? Are you not supposed to write a cliffhanger? Is that a cliché?
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Says Sorkin of his featured player, “In a lot of ways, [Olivia] reminded me of a female version of Rob Lowe on The West Wing—she plays a wonk who doesn’t know or doesn’t care that she’s good-looking. I’d seen her on The Daily Show, so I knew she was a world-class comedian, but it wasn’t until her audition that I saw she was also a world-class actress.”
Well that’s certainly a glowing recommendation. Haters be damned.
Yeah.
New Trailer: HBO & Aaron Sorkin’s The Newsroom | THR
