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Started watching HBO’s The Newsroom
Posted on 9/2/20 at 9:46 pm
Posted on 9/2/20 at 9:46 pm
So I know I’m about a decade late but I find it interesting that the premise of the show is news that holds people accountable for what they say. The immediately sends the first season bashing the tea party, attacking the Koch brothers and literally saying Soros isn’t in their league in funding the Tea Party. Then spends all season attacking every right talking point of the time. Ex. Obama Care, Debt Ceiling, abortion while saying the lead anchor is a republican. They literally tried to take the high ground in news then took an axe to one side. 
I find a lot of parallels on what they were saying but flips in 2020. If you switched the Koch brothers with Soros and the Tea Party with BLM it would fit like a glove. I just find the hypocrisy interesting. And I’ve only made it through 9 episodes of season 1.
Is there something I’m missing?
I find a lot of parallels on what they were saying but flips in 2020. If you switched the Koch brothers with Soros and the Tea Party with BLM it would fit like a glove. I just find the hypocrisy interesting. And I’ve only made it through 9 episodes of season 1.
Is there something I’m missing?
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Posted on 9/2/20 at 9:47 pm to HottyToddy7
The opening monologue rant was a joke, the. It only got worse
Posted on 9/2/20 at 9:48 pm to HottyToddy7
Pretty sure Jeff Daniels’ character in dumb and dumber was him as himself. Everything else Is an act
Posted on 9/2/20 at 9:54 pm to HottyToddy7
I kept seeing that monologue from Daniels.
Was curious, read reviews, saw that it was exactly as you described, never watched.
There is nothing balanced anymore. Even the damn Umbrella Academy had to start the SJW crap in Season 2.
Was curious, read reviews, saw that it was exactly as you described, never watched.
There is nothing balanced anymore. Even the damn Umbrella Academy had to start the SJW crap in Season 2.
Posted on 9/2/20 at 9:56 pm to HottyToddy7
Maggie: WNHI
Pretty much all I remember about the show.
Pretty much all I remember about the show.
Posted on 9/2/20 at 10:00 pm to HottyToddy7
The Newsroom was great. They took shots at both sides. Yeah, it leaned more left than I would like, but there's nothing wrong with not agreeing with everything on the right. I don't agree with everything Republicans are for, but the things that are important to me are in line with conservatives and I vote for those.
Posted on 9/2/20 at 10:07 pm to noonan
I’ve only watched one season but they portrayed the rights talking points very poorly and literally said that not every side should get an argument on each issue. Maybe they do in season 2 and 3 but they didn’t at all in season 1.
Posted on 9/2/20 at 10:09 pm to HottyToddy7
Watch “Perry Mason” instead.
Definitely not your mom’s Raymond Burr Perry Mason.
Definitely not your mom’s Raymond Burr Perry Mason.
Posted on 9/2/20 at 10:33 pm to HottyToddy7
It was a pretty good show. A lot of the plot seemed unrealistic, but entertaining nonetheless. I think it was a show geared towards liberal republicans. Around 2012, the Republican Party was the party of Romney, Bachman, McCain, etc. so it was easy to criticize. They also criticized the left, Occupy Wall Street for instance. Within the context of today’s politics, I’d also be curious on how they would make it today. I think probably that the TDS is so strong in the entertainment world that it would probably be what we’d expect.
Posted on 9/2/20 at 10:39 pm to HottyToddy7
Knowing that the people that wrote, ran and performed on the show all likely support the Democrat/Marxist Party and BLM/Antifa of today, you aren’t missing anything.
Posted on 9/2/20 at 10:54 pm to weptiger
Aaron Sorkin is talented. But he's a coked up, Trump-obsessed, "wrong as can be politically" on almost every single issue. His pretentiousness is only exceeded by his wrong-headedness.
Posted on 9/3/20 at 1:40 am to HottyToddy7
It gets much worse after season 1. Sorkin can't help himself. All of his characters dialogues sound the same and you could almost play a drinking game with how many times you hear someone talk about how smart they or someone else is. Season 1 was by far the most entertaining, but West Wing was way less left-leaning to give you comparison.
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