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

[bigmac]

Another very solid episode. I definitely did not see Genoa being bogus though. Damn, that's a fukkery.

- Dantana is going to get caught out due to the BBall footage. As soon as Stomtonovich (sp?) made an issue to continue having the basketball on the screen I knew it would come back to be an issue. I feel like someone is going to watch the raw footage and see the screen on loop or some shyt. It's over for Dantana when that penny drops.

- I also feel like Maggie is about to fukk up something serious. She going through this "hoe phase" right now, slinging that dead poon for a couple Vodka Martini's and that's about to slap ol' girl in the c*nt. Jim dropping "just make sure you keep Genoa a secret" when you're drinking didn't sit right with me. We ain't heard the end of that.

- For a second there I also thought Don was about to get in those British guts. Him and Mack were getting a bit too cosy in that bar. SMFH at Don moving bytch made though, duke needs to go get Sloan. It's there for him.

I'm enjoying this season so far, I wonder how many weeks before shyt really hits the fan.

 

[phillycavsfan]

I assumed that Genoa had been bogus all along. Why else would they be meeting with the team of lawyers in the flash forwards? It's still an excellent storyline for this show.

Two good episodes in a row for the first time ever. Although, Sorkin's gotta stop that shyt where he interrupts a serious, dramatic scene with some with a tangent that intended to lighten the mood, like that dumb shyt with the reindeers. That scene was working just fine without the comedy, and worse off it wasn't funny at all.

 

[Propaganda]

the sonning that charlie took from that spook...

 

[ThePsydeFX]

the sonning that charlie took from that spook...

Gave him cotton mouth with his palm.

 

[heisenburrr]

that was a great fukking episode if you ask me

 

[Da Jungles]

 

[HHR]

Breaking Bad was incredible.

But The Newsroom tonight..........

Jane Fonda came thru and crushed the buildings in one 3 minute scene.

 

[HHR]

I assumed that Genoa had been bogus all along. Why else would they be meeting with the team of lawyers in the flash forwards? It's still an excellent storyline for this show.

Two good episodes in a row for the first time ever. Although, Sorkin's gotta stop that shyt where he interrupts a serious, dramatic scene with some with a tangent that intended to lighten the mood, like that dumb shyt with the reindeers. That scene was working just fine without the comedy, and worse off it wasn't funny at all.

I'm almost positive they literally said it was bogus in the first episode. The story has all been about HOW they were duped into airing it...and now the fallout. I don't think the legitimacy of the story was ever in question.

 

[BonafideDefacto]

When i watched this at 1am i wanted to just stand up and clap. Best fukking episode to date. Great fukking ending. Holy shyt. I was half concious when it started but fully awake 10min in.

 

[Swiggy]

Breaking Bad was incredible.

But The Newsroom tonight..........

Jane Fonda came thru and crushed the buildings in one 3 minute scene.

No lie, I'd have lived out my Nina Hartley fantasy on her after she let it be known she wasn't the bytch to be fukked with

 

[daemonova]

y'all gotta recognize the kind of talent Jane Fonda is, they don't make actresses like that anymore, maybe they never did, that's what you did before they had special effects

and skyfall: shytty first act, shytty second act, AMAZING tHIRD Act, that movie was so bad I had to walk away from it and come back... Kick ass 2 is this years skyfall

 

[Christian3o5]

I love this show

 

[Cory MBA]

The Sloan, Don, and Charlie characters are being developed nicely.

 

[bigmac]

Great episode again. We're being blessed with some really good TV right now.

- The way Genoa unravelled piece-by-piece was done brilliantly this week. I knew the basketball footage in the video was going to be the undoing of that jock Dantana. Was obvious from the previous weeks.

- The "sonning" Charlie took was childish and immature but interesting viewing nonetheless. I don't know who, in those circles, puts F YOU CHARLIE in UV pen on a war manuscript like that without lining themselves up for reprimand. Which grown-ass man backhands another man like that too?!

- Don Keefer is lowkey turning into the show's best character. It almost feels weird seeing him in scenes with Maggie. I find it difficult to even picture them as a couple nowadays despite that happening not even that long ago.

- Jane Fonda coming through and crushing the buildings was dope but I'm really enjoying the actress playing the lead lawyer a tthe moment. Killing all the scenes she's in right now.

Two week break before the next one airs unfortunately. I love this shyt.

 

[obarth]

Absolutely brilliant episode, brehs

We all figured out the basketball game would unravel the story since last week, which kind of took a little from foreshadowing attempts with Will in the beginning and the clock the dude gave to Mack, but the payoff still delivered. This is their first major original storyline of the series to date and they've nailed it so far. And Jane Fonda at the end. She said "Get it back" and I just had to for a second.

The media has been really unfair to this show mainly because it's a show about journalism, but Sorkin has listened to the genuine gripes and addressed the majority of them. There will always be corny jokes, slightly unrealistic dialogue, and cringeworthy relationship scenes but overall this is a quality show and at its best is as good as anything else on TV.