So Danielle and I chose this as a show that we might both like. It's okay television. But that's about it. The dialogue is ridiculously unrealistic (which is to be expected) and it is about as fair and balanced as Bill O'Reilly. It makes the news out to be some super important, courageous profession. Jeff Daniels spends most of the time fighting the network to make sure he can tell the "unbiased" news. With having the benefit of perfect hindsight when telling the news (the show focuses on actual events), The Newsroom gets to get super political and make their stance known on things like the Casey Anthony story and how it was covered. It's sorta annoying because I don't watch shows to get all political and shit. It's mildly entertaining and season 2 seems to be a bit better, but I'm not too impressed so far.
I gave up on this one after two episodes. The "perfect hindsight reporting" just really got under my skin. Real easy to get all kinds of smug about how certain events should have or could have been covered when their repercussions are already known to the audience. And every character just sounded so damn smarmy.
ReplyDeleteLet me know if Season 2 is any better.