"The Newsroom" debuts tonight on HBO...Official thread

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The bus tour scene was maybe a little too convenient.

The student interviewing as an intern was also very coincidental.
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Absolutely to the first....no to the second. The student came in to interview because of their first encounter and the subsequent magazine article.
 
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ami the only one in this thread who thinks olivia munn is an absolute terrible actress? i mean yeah shes fine and all but damn all her lines sound so forced. i cringe everytime she talks. im sorry but that character is just not believable.
 

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Dope finale. I enjoyed the first season and looking forward to the next. Kudos to Jeff Daniels, I didn't know he was that great an actor, he should def get some nominations for the role. Shorty that plays Mckenzie should get some noms too, one for being a MILF with a sexy accent.

Yo to everyone not feeling the love triangles and overall relationships between coworkers, u gotta remember the environment these ppl are in, it happens all the time. The show is also realistic, so why not show that element of the newsroom? It's like watching the office and getting mad at Jim n Pam for getting together, it happens. You put ppl in that situation and sparks fly. I already see 4 females on the show I would try to get with if we worked together.

Im glad they kept Terry Crews on the show with Will getting more threats. The relationship they have is hilarious.

Again I wanna give Soarkin props for attacking the government and media like this. There were a lot of brilliant moments on the show and I really hope this goes on for a couple years.

*goes to stalk Olivia Munn on twitter*
 

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ami the only one in this thread who thinks olivia munn is an absolute terrible actress? i mean yeah shes fine and all but damn all her lines sound so forced. i cringe everytime she talks. im sorry but that character is just not believable.

Yeah her character sucks(turning down $4 million a year :rudy:) and she can't act, but damn she is bad as hell :ahh::ahh:
 

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I really haven't had problems with Munn's acting.

And I didn't have a problem with her turning down the job.

They said in episode 1 or 2 that she could've been working on Wall Street somewhere making bank, but she wanted to do the news to educate people about finance and its impact on them.

So her turning down an offer fits, especially when her mentor makes it clear that he's staying.

She's the only character that works at ACN that hasn't made me go :beli: Maybe the part when she went rogue on the air and even then it was her being unexperienced and having a connection with Japan.
 
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Ya, the only thing that seems forced about Munn's character is her social awkwardness.....do they have to explicitly tell us that she's socially inept in every other scene she's in? :beli:
 

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Ya, the only thing that seems forced about Munn's character is her social awkwardness.....do they have to explicitly tell us that she's socially inept in every other scene she's in? :beli:

But even then, most of the time it's people coming to her with relationship shyt and she's like :dwillhuh: "Why are you coming to me with this?"
 

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Stopped watching after the 4th episode. Caught up in the last week.

Holy shyt this show is so hit or miss it's :mindblown:

They can have a great scene and immediately follow up with some unbearably corny and/or preachy shyt.

Mackenzie can get it but she is so annoying it makes me cringe.


Maggie is :scusthov:
 

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Yeah, wasn't a big fan of the finale.

The use of Baba O'Riley was cringe-worthy, and the tour bus scene was nearly as bad...

I wish they'd have done more with the hacking shyt, though I guess they still might.

The assault on the tea party was great as always though.
 

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Show is piff to me. Too many cats hating on the love/sex angle, brehs that's life, love and sex. Especially in the office full of post grad interns. But I forgot, there are zero simps here and everyone is a playa who never catches feelings. The only issue I have is that Danials is supposed to be a Republican but yet he shyts on them every episode. The democratic writers on this show tried but failed, there true colors show every episode. It's even sadder they are doing the preaching while hiding behind 'said republican'.
 
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