The Newsroom Recap: What’s a Maddow?

The Newsroom

By vallegirl | Wednesday, July 11, 2012 | 11:00 am | 4 Comments
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Charlie and Will are down at the karaoke bar drinking with Elliott (okay), Jim (sure), Sloan (certainly) and…Neal, Gary and some random male staffer? Really? Where the women, other than Sloan, at? Charlie just wants to know why they’re drinking cheap liquor. To celebrate how awesome and manly, and Sloan, they are. Oh, and how much they all love doing the news. In the middle of Will toasting to his awesomeness Charlie gets the email calling him to the war room the next morning. Will wonders what the meeting could possibly be about and Charlie says she’s probably going to tell him they did a great job. We-ell…

To men! (and Sloan)

As the piano music gets ominous, Will and the men…and Sloan…toast to the 112th Congress. God speed and God Bless America. Clink!

Three down, seven to go and so far it’s been downhill since the pilot. Of course, No show is perfect in the first season, no matter how fondly we remember them. Except maybe Dexter and it was all downhill after that first season. I blame Rita. So I’m hoping The Newsroom can find its footing. Considering all the craziness that took place last year, there’s plenty of fodder to mine and seeing a co-writer this episode gives me hope. Then again, it could achieve the “so bad it’s awesome” level, too. It could really go either way. Just avoid staying in the “good enough to just be bad” range. That’s the worst.

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Vallegirl has never actually lived in a valley, has a lot of time on her hands and likes to yell at kids about how things were in her day.  Currently in LA, she's also spent a lot of time in the great states of  New York and Florida so she's not crazy, it's just a cultural thing.

4 Comments

  1. 1
    WaffleBoy
    Posted July 11, 2012 at 12:16 pm

    Is there going to be a point where real time catches up with Sorkin time, and they start covering fake news or at least almost new news? I mean Mt Sorkin has an Oscar and I don’t but who the hell wants to watch a news show about old news? I mean that’s as bad of idea as having a show about a comedy show that isn’t funny. Ohhhh, [awkward pause], well at least there’s lot of walking and talking
    Good recap, thanks!

  2. 2
    ellemck1
    Posted July 11, 2012 at 1:02 pm

    Will’s opening speech was so freaking pompous that he reminded me of my contemporary American politics professor from my freshmen year of college. I really disliked that professor. And I really disliked his opening speech/apology.

  3. 3
    vallegirl vallegirl
    Posted July 11, 2012 at 3:53 pm

    @Waffleboy – Sorkin actually showed an unusual amount of self awareness when he explained setting it in the recent past was to blunt the accusations that he was using the fake newscasts as a personal soap box by creating news stories that fit into whatever sermon he wanted to write that week. Of course, he then squandered all that self awareness by being Sorkin and still making all the ACTUAL news that happened at the time fit into whatever sermon of the week he wanted to write. But baby steps.

    And ellemck1 – even by Olbermanian “Special Comment” standards, Will’s “apology” was too much.

  4. 4
    ChaCha
    Posted July 11, 2012 at 6:48 pm

    I just really dislike the entire show. It’s so bogus in such a conceited, self-congratulatory way. I don’t hate Aaron Sorkin, but he should be ashamed of this trash. Maybe I can’t get into it or behind it or some other form of appreciation, because there’s nothing so far that reminds me of the almost two decades that I worked in and around TV news. What bugs me most is that the “civilian” viewers think this program shows news programming like it’s the real deal, when it’s so far from it. Just the other day I had another conversation with a friend who thinks the show is great. Aaarrrggghhhh! (BTW, I’ve quit watching it, but I might have to quit reading vallegirl’s great recaps, because she describes the show too well and even reading about it this way annoys me with the show.)

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