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Old 04-02-2012, 12:39 AM   #1
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The Newsroom

I don't think there's a thread for this show (and it's still two months away), but the trailer is out:



God damn, that looks awesome. It will have its haters but for fanboys like me who were all about Sports Night, all about Broadcast News, and all about A Few Good Men/Charlie Wilson's War/The Social Network/The American President, etc. this thing is going to kick ass.

I hope it doesn't go the way of Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, but then again HBO has a pretty good track record unlike NBC.
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Old 04-02-2012, 01:32 AM   #2
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Studio 60 being so self important and tone deaf makes me suspicious of this - but that trailer looked really great.
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Old 04-02-2012, 02:16 AM   #3
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I loved Studio 60, and I have A LOT of faith in this one. I am a proud fanboy, but I think it'll be great based on content, not just based on Sorkin.
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Old 04-02-2012, 05:14 AM   #4
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Looks awesome, will watch
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Old 04-02-2012, 05:19 AM   #5
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i never got the studio 60 hate, i loved it
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Old 04-02-2012, 08:34 AM   #6
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This just looks like Network mixed with Sports Night, but I loved both and trust Sorkin with pretty much anything so I'll be watching.
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Old 04-02-2012, 11:08 AM   #7
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i never got the studio 60 hate, i loved it
Me too, and it's made me wonder about all this untapped potential in Matthew Perry. There's a good actor lurking in there and we may never see it again.
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Old 04-02-2012, 12:08 PM   #8
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Presented without comment (Ten Most Sorkin Things in the Trailer):

http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2...in-the-trailer
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Old 04-02-2012, 01:31 PM   #9
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True, but I don't care

Will probably be filled with a bunch of:

"You should do this."
"I want to do that."
"But you should really do this."
"I don't want to do this, I want to do that."
"Then you should do that. But you know what you should do first?"
"Before I do that?"
"Yeah."
"What?"
"You should do this."
"OK."

And, I don't care about that either.
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Old 04-02-2012, 01:49 PM   #10
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True, but I don't care

Will probably be filled with a bunch of:

"You should do this."
"I want to do that."
"But you should really do this."
"I don't want to do this, I want to do that."
"Then you should do that. But you know what you should do first?"
"Before I do that?"
"Yeah."
"What?"
"You should do this."
"OK."

And, I don't care about that either.


Love everything Sorkin except S60, though Matthew Perry was my favorite part of it.

I think the problem for me was: Except for SN, all the other projects have a built-in gravity because they're about serious topics, i.e. politics / law. SN obv didn't have that, but they kept it light early and built slowly to the weightier stuff after I started caring.

I felt that S60 right from the get-go wanted me to think the (fictional) show and the people were super important for some reason, and I never got the reason. I never cared about them, but it desperately wanted me to.

Anyway, loved the Newsroom trailer. And lol "fact dump," so true.
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Old 04-02-2012, 02:03 PM   #11
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I got into S60 before TWW, but I was huge fan of SN while it was airing. Same with the movies. I didn't want to mess TWW because all of the ads around that time for "ER" were "On a very special episode of ER." and that was every promo. They did the same with TWW promos, so I didn't bother.

A friend of mine had just got a new laptop and d/l'd the first HD video file they found, which happened to be S60. They loved it, so I decided to check it out. The reason I liked it so much is because I loved the dialogue and the performances/characters. Then the end of the 2nd ep floored me and that was all it took. I didn't dig too deep into it to be bothered with the things that most people don't like about the show on the first run-through. I did eventually, but I was already a fan so I went with it and liked every episode.

I got into TWW right before S60 ended, and I ain't been the same since
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Old 04-02-2012, 02:14 PM   #12
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Probably time to bring back my Sabrina Lloyd avatar.
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Old 04-02-2012, 03:05 PM   #13
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This looks like the most Sorkiny thing ever Sorkined, but also looks pretty damn awesome.
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Old 04-02-2012, 03:25 PM   #14
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+1 to loving studio 60.

this looks awesome.
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Old 04-02-2012, 03:27 PM   #15
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This looks like the most Sorkiny thing ever Sorkined, but also looks pretty damn awesome.
Sorkin gonna Sorkin.
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