re: #311 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

We loved that show. Damn shame it only had a couple of seasons.

My theory is that the critics, who seem to hate Aaron Sorkin, killed it dead. A few snotty examples:

Ever since its creation The Newsroom has served as screenwriter Aaron Sorkin’s bully pulpit… and Sorkin gets to tell us how he thinks these events should have been covered. Yes, a man who has been living cosily on a Hollywood salary for several decades and has no actual journalistic experience, gets to play fantasy newsroom and tell us all how it should be done.

The problem is Sorkin also happens to be an unabashedly left-wing writer who doesn’t seem to credit anyone on the other side of the aisle with an intelligence to match his own.

Ultimately, no one appears more deluded than Sorkin. His Will McAvoy is an insufferable blowhard, but the show spends most of its energy trying to convince us he’s a saint.

It’s hard not to check out after 10 minutes: Once Will’s big speech shifts from effectively puncturing the myth of American exceptionalism to absurd generational resentment, Sorkin’s soapboxing becomes intolerable.

And from the Wall Street Journal, saying the quiet “We hate Aaron Sorkin” out loud:

Thin drama, a thick hide of smugness.