- Compulsively watchable? Check.
- Smug as hell? Check.
- Probably not able to hold up in the long run? Check.
But here are things about the new HBO Aaron Sorkin drama “The Newsroom” that are annoying me today:
Why are Jim & Maggie the junior varsity version of Will and MacKenzie? What is that parallel buying the viewers? And why is it that men and women can’t be friends on so many TV shows? Could they just be interested in each other as people, without all the romantic tension?
Why are the names of all the characters so boring with the truly peculiar exception of Sloan Sabbith (Olivia Munn)? Will, Mac, Jim, Maggie, Don, Charlie… even the Indian guy is “Neal.” Why?
We never get a hint at Charlie Skinner’s motivation for disrupting things at the show. It feels like we’re setting up the character to reveal that he has terminal cancer at the end of Season 1, which would be a sentimental cop out.
Will Sorkin ever give Will McAvoy a worthy adversary either on the show or off? Any debate that he loses, or that even makes him break a sweat?
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