With a season to go it could always make a strong run this year and get renewed late. They do such a good job with the news and making the argument that there aren't always two sides to an argument.
Sorkin apparently is too busy to fully commit to it and another show runner apparently is not of interest to him. But I think ending now is good, unless they intend to cut out the useless melodramatic nonsense that dominated the first two seasons. Season 2 Finale was cringe worthy.
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The show has great moments, but it's not a great show. They needed to pick a side, focus on the newsroom aspects, which most of us wanted, or go regular drama and focus on the relationships. They screwed it up by doing both.
I think a smart newsroom comedy would have succeeded on HBO, they have a few popular shows that buck the usual writing and plot tropes. But instead they put in too much relationship stuff to try and gain a wider audience and dumbed down (and ruined) the show.
I gave up after the first season because I wanted an intelligently-written show about the inner-workings of television journalism but was instead subjected to sophomoric wacky relationship hi-jinks. Did it ever get better? Is it worth watching past season 1?
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I gave up after the first season because I wanted an intelligently-written show about the inner-workings of television journalism but was instead subjected to sophomoric wacky relationship hi-jinks. Did it ever get better? Is it worth watching past season 1?
Good lord no, it gets even more annoying and grating in season 2, culminating with a finale that everyone pretty much face palmed the entire way through. Good episodes and moments sprinkled in, but I thought season 2 was worse in almost every way.
I'm waiting on the final season to be done and for their to be reviews and feedback that shows me it's improved as a show. But only being 6 episodes you would hope it'd be pretty tightly written.
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Their news network is incompetent, they should be sold off.
What was the deal about not reporting about the Boston Marathon bombing until they had the facts? It's not like they needed to lie, but not reporting about it at all in the beginning was silly.
Their news network is incompetent, they should be sold off.
What was the deal about not reporting about the Boston Marathon bombing until they had the facts? It's not like they needed to lie, but not reporting about it at all in the beginning was silly.
We're so peppered with shock info-tainment that we don't recognize Journalism when we see it.
Waiting for independent corroboration from some official source should be standard journalism.
"There has been some kind of incident, an explosion, maybe terrorism, maybe not, who knows." isn't journalism.
I thought the episode was really good for that fact. ACN is supposed to be behind in the ratings because they aren't sacrificing their standards.
All the other networks got there first, reported misinformation and/or fed a panic while ACN did what journalists are supposed to do and waited for concrete info to report before whipping up a frenzy.
CNN et al. are closer to twitter than they'd like to admit, and twitter is Gossip.
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