I've been rewatching the Newsroom actually with my wife (who never saw it) and it definitely has some cringe moments and I'm a huge West Wing fan. I think the fatal flaw with the show was that Sorkin tried to 'redo' the news with hindsight and it just comes off as shitty. The tone was way off at least in the first season.
I've been rewatching the Newsroom actually with my wife (who never saw it) and it definitely has some cringe moments and I'm a huge West Wing fan. I think the fatal flaw with the show was that Sorkin tried to 'redo' the news with hindsight and it just comes off as shitty. The tone was way off at least in the first season.
Yeah, it was such a distinctly painful experience that I remember it more clearly than I should. What did they change in later seasons?
I think it's less white/black and a bit more nauce comes out, but it's been like 10 years since I saw those seasons.