"Political Animals"

[Marokai]

Personally I've grown more and more disappointed with the show if not outright disgusted. Some of the politics parts are delicious fan-fictiony fun to watch, but for most of the rest of the show, the most complimentary I can be is "lazy" (not a shocker, considering it's the USA network) and at worst, outright desperate. The gay character exists literally only as a source of conflict and to have lots of cursing (and follows through on my "all gay TV characters must have bizarre or windswept hair" theory), and sex seems to pop up in the most random and unearned of places, from my perspective, only to try and check off certain boxes of "demographics we need to draw in."

Perhaps I'm just some sort of TV wizard at this point, but I've seen nearly everything coming before they've revealed it as if I wasn't supposed to know, leaving me with constant "You thought that was a surprise? You thought you were going to shock me? Seriously?" moments. The Aaron Schock closet case is a perfect example; aggressively obvious that he was gay from the first word that came out of his mouth. (Though, this may be due to the actor that plays him, he's been in all sorts of other stuff as a gay character. Maybe most mainstream viewers wouldn't notice that.)

Eh, all in all, I'm disappointed with it and think it's really mediocre entertainment, but that comes with being on USA. I'm sticking with it because I'm already invested at this point, and because I love Sigourney Weaver. Were it not for her being the lead, I probably would've ditched.

[Keystone Phil]

And the Newsroom is one of the worst shows I've seen in awhile.

Thank you! I'm so tired of people saying how great it is. It's unbelievably corny. At least The West Wing had only a few corny moments. Newsroom is eye roll worthy more of the time.

[A-Bob]

And the Newsroom is one of the worst shows I've seen in awhile.

Thank you! I'm so tired of people saying how great it is. It's unbelievably corny. At least The West Wing had only a few corny moments. Newsroom is eye roll worthy more of the time.

Shut up the west wing was perfect

[Keystone Phil]

And the Newsroom is one of the worst shows I've seen in awhile.

Thank you! I'm so tired of people saying how great it is. It's unbelievably corny. At least The West Wing had only a few corny moments. Newsroom is eye roll worthy more of the time.

Shut up the west wing was perfect

I'm a West Wing fan but come on. Don't tell me you weren't gagging at the corniness.

[A-Bob]

And the Newsroom is one of the worst shows I've seen in awhile.

Thank you! I'm so tired of people saying how great it is. It's unbelievably corny. At least The West Wing had only a few corny moments. Newsroom is eye roll worthy more of the time.

Shut up the west wing was perfect

I'm a West Wing fan but come on. Don't tell me you weren't gagging at the corniness.

Nope. Enjoyed every second of it. Outside of Josh and Donna's 6 year love affair thing.

[King]

And the Newsroom is one of the worst shows I've seen in awhile.

Thank you! I'm so tired of people saying how great it is. It's unbelievably corny. At least The West Wing had only a few corny moments. Newsroom is eye roll worthy more of the time.

A big problem with it Is a big problem I have with original Sorkin.  It's probably why it seems so corny. The Newsroom is the story of what it would be like if the characters of the West Wing worked in newsroom. He doesn't really care to show us anything about how a news network works.  It's just his rambling thoughts on old news spoken by actors.

[Χahar]

Who's calling The Newsroom great? What show are they watching?

[Sibboleth]

Who's calling The Newsroom great? What show are they watching?

Drop The Dead Donkey?

[Oldiesfreak1854]

Never.  It's probably very biased toward the left.

[Marokai]

Never.  It's probably very biased toward the left.

It's only biased toward undemanding viewers who are totally okay with mediocre television. It won't indoctrinate you, I promise.

[A-Bob]

Never.  It's probably very biased toward the left.

The day that there is a conservative political TV show...