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- dopepope0
It's okay to like more than one show. It's also okay to like a show even if people you don't know on the internet don't like it. And try to incorporate more Fancy Feast into your diet.
- newuser0
Returned.
- teh0
Goodbye Newsroom!
Thanks!
- freedom0
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One of the bigger problems with The Newsroom is that so many scenes involve men setting women straight, men supervising women, a man teaching a woman how to use email (and the woman getting it spectacularly wrong regardless), a hapless woman seesawing between two different men, etc. It’s not that I can't buy Will McAvoy, Jeff Daniels’s lead character, as a fully realized human being, but it’s pretty clear that the show thinks he is right, admirable, or brave most, if not all, of the time.
We’re supposed to believe that MacKenzie McHale (Emily Mortimer) covered conflicts in the Middle East and won multiple awards for her work, yet she doesn’t understand how email works? She can’t get through a meeting without knocking over a poster? But one of the most troubling things is the way she’s used to prop up Will’s martyr complex: she cheated on him, and yet she clearly still adores him, despite the way he repeatedly berates her. She is the Woman Who Done the Man Wrong yet can’t quit him (really?). He’s clearly our hero, and she’s capable on occasion, but as ditzy and needy as the show needs her to be whenever it suits Sorkin.
- And what kind of intellectual woman has 7 bridesmaids and at that age?bainbridge
- jtb260
I don't totally disagree with the above. I love the show regardless, though I do think it's a little unfair to paint how the show represents women in broad strokes. Though none of that is untrue.
I think in the case of Magie (Maggy, Maggee, magoo?) They're presenting a doe eyed girl, clearly green and then letting us watch as she grows into a hard nosed reporter. By the end of the show she's giving Jim more shit than he gives her and certainly more of an equal. Likewise Jim who had previously been portrayed as somewhat of the faultless hero is revealed to be somewhat of an ass.
I also think that on many occasions Mac is portrayed as morally superior to Will, and in those moments is the most willful and competent person on the show. She has vision and conviction and clearly leads in a way that none of the other characters do. Is she used as a comic foil, certainly. I think it's necessary. Otherwise you run the risk of the character becoming too sanctimonious. (And Sorkin's characters often do).
- SteveJobs0
Just finished this. I really liked the show for what it was. It found it's quirky balance a few episodes in and stuck with it. There were a few inconsistencies with the characters, sure, but those were forgivable given the show's tone which never took itself too seriously.
I might have ended the series differently if I'd written it but then again I feel that way about pretty much every series I watch :)
- deathboy0
ah i saw a couple epsiodes of this in izmir a couple years ago. i liked what i saw but forgot about it. didnt realize it was sorkin. loved sports night as a kid. have to put it on my to binge list