Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Disappoint By Numbers



Aaron Sorkin's latest creation is currently buried up to its axles in the mud of his own style book.

For this reason "The Newsroom" is not the show it could or should be.

If Mr. Sorkin would like to make "The Newsroom" into the show it could and should be he needs to hire a bunkhouse full of writers who are not Aaron Sorkin and given them their head.

Probably not going to happen:

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Season by season, episode by episode, it becomes more and more unwatchable.
It is one hour of repeated cringing punctuated with moments of predictable boredom.
The relationships, which he seems to think are the integral parts of the show, are so embarrassingly cloying and shallow, one wonders if Sorkin has ever interacted with other humans in his real life.
It almost seems as if he is trying to parody his past good work rather than build upon its brilliance.
God I miss GOT.
Between True Blood (Truly horrible) and this, Sundays nights are like standing at the site of a once great battle, that has just had a shopping mall built on it.



Michael Doane said...

I await this blogger's script, somehow certain that it will be not picked up by HBO or any other network.

Scott Ingram said...

Well, you've just ruined anything Sorkin ever did, or will do, for me.

Thanks for that!

Anonymous said...

"I await this blogger's script, somehow certain that it will be not picked up by HBO or any other network."

So you are writing scripts for HBO or any other network?