Tiresome TV news anchor Will McAvoy has a meltdown in front of a college audience Q and A. This brings a lot of soul searching and a realization that it's time for him to be a real newsman instead of a talking head. McAvoy's boss improbably hires McAvoy's former lover MacKenzie McHale to be his new executive producer. Their first big story is the Gulf Oil spill, where they scoop the competition and reveal the truth of the extent of the catastrophe.
The best I can say for this talky motormouth show is that it finally got better after about a 1/2 hour of endless unceasing chatter. People just don't talk like this. But in the world of Aaron Sorkin nobody has an opinion without launching into a windy tirade about the indifference and evil of you name it.
HBO likes to make quality original programming. They try to attract people like Martin Scorcese, Michael Mann and in this case Aaron Sorkin. In Sorkin's case, he is the creator, executive producer and writer of this show. Sorkin is a half decent writer but nobody apparently was able to tell him that what he was producing was a lot of long winded rubbish.
Shows like The Newsroom are the result of letting a semi talented person run amock creatively with no one around to tell him no.
75 minutes.
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