I was going to write about the first episode of The Newsroom today, a show what I watched last night and stuff, but then I figured it’d be a lot easier if I just copied and pasted a few tweets what I twitted. You can follow me here, if you’d like to do that.
I just watched the first episode of The Newsroom. Controversial opinion: it was brilliant.
— Chris (@sscalavera) June 27, 2012
“But it’s not like a real newsroom!” Shut up. It’s aspirational TV. The West Wing was aspirational TV. The Social Network, too. But a film.
— Chris (@sscalavera) June 27, 2012
Sorkin isn’t interested in making documentaries. He’s picking out things that are fucked up (politics, social networking, news) on purpose.
— Chris (@sscalavera) June 27, 2012
“Here’s my version!” he’s yelling. And if it doesn’t work according to the rules of news production, then those rules are wrong. Apparently.
— Chris (@sscalavera) June 27, 2012
It’s extremely fucking arrogant, but it’s fun to watch, throws a light on what life fails to, and has humour to boot. So… yeah. You dicks.
— Chris (@sscalavera) June 27, 2012
So. Good. There we go. I know it looks crap in your Tumblr dashboard, but at least you can read it. (Click here if you want to see it like it should be seen.)