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Newsroom's getting some interesting hype and blacklash already. The interview in the Guardian was long and fawning, but actually peaked my interest. I'll have to check it out.

I really like Longmire, but I'm not sure why. At least this week he didn't pull some totally obscure clue out of his ass to solve the mystery. Maybe I just miss Matt Dillon. I hope he get over his dead wife and starts banging that goofy blond.

I'm sensing The Newsroom will be the topic of the next Girls/Prometheus type discussion.

Teasing Sorkin isn't a problem, but I think people need to recognize it as theater and not cinema verite. Sorkin's always been fully aware and accepting of his over-the-top dialogue style. Shakespeare didn't write the way people in his day talked, why should we expect all our screenwriters to do so?

WHY ARE THE COMMENTS BACKWARDS? I FUCKING HATE THIS NEW COMMENT SYSTEM.

DUDE. DON'T PANIC. Take a deep breath. Everything's gonna be alright. Go to the top of the comments and click the little 'Discussion' tab. Now select 'oldest'. See? Now the comments are in the order to which you've become accustomed.
Everything shiny again?

I shouldn't have to do that, dude.

Not everyone wants their format the same as you, so this way everyone wins by a click of a button!

Compromise means nobody wins.

RE: Great Escape Camera Crew-

That reminds me of watching NFL Films highlights where you'd see athletes in top shape or even hopped up on steroids and human growth hormones tearing 80 yards down the field like a stampede of buffalo, meanwhile the referees who are usually aged on the older side of pre-retirement and not the epitome of physical prowess are keeping up with the players by running along side of them often chugging along while going backwards. I've seen some of the hits they've taken too. They get run over like so many racoons crossing a freeway, and they don't even wear padding or armor. And while some of them take a lick and hobble away, I can't tell you the last time I've ever seen a referee carted off the field with an injury. Say what you will about quality of their calls, but some of them are tough little zebras.

Countfosco is correct.

Sorkin is just too important to tease.

I used to be on the fence about whether any human being has the right to poke fun at Sorkin, but Countfosco's eloquent explanation of "fuck you" has convinced me that Sorkin must be left alone at all costs.

Thank you Countfosco. Ad hominem attacks on the Internet are rarely this persuasive.

So... Sorkin is the new Bochco now?

If Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip is any indication The Newsroom is going to be one serious show.

snark!

I appreciate mock and droll when they're warranted, not when merely anticipated 'cuz well, fuck you.