[Aaron Sorkin] [HBO] The Newsroom #2

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Op maandag 8 december 2014 13:24 schreef BasvB het volgende:
Goddamn opeens zie je Will's vader op die foto. Waarom ben ik zo slecht in dat soort dingen.

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Op maandag 8 december 2014 15:45 schreef Gambetta het volgende:


Alles met Maggie en Jim: totaal niet boeiend.

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Op maandag 8 december 2014 14:47 schreef tostitomaatkaas het volgende:

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Op maandag 8 december 2014 14:47 schreef tostitomaatkaas het volgende:

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Op maandag 8 december 2014 10:31 schreef timmmmm het volgende:
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Op maandag 8 december 2014 21:28 schreef Breuls het volgende:
Wow. Mooi einde; dat van die foto zag ik niet aankomen, maar maakte dit wel erg mooi. Die hartaanval zag ik wel aankomen. Aan de ene kant door de regie en Waterstons vertolking, maar ook omdat ik Sorkin een beetje te goed ken wat dat betreft.

En ik schrok me kapot toen Mac zei dat Charlie was overleden. Ik had gehoopt dat hij volgende week nog aanwezig zou zijn voor een herrijzing van ACN, dat net zo hard is ingestort als Charlie.

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Op maandag 8 december 2014 21:28 schreef Breuls het volgende:
Wow. Mooi einde; dat van die foto zag ik niet aankomen, maar maakte dit wel erg mooi. Die hartaanval zag ik wel aankomen. Aan de ene kant door de regie en Waterstons vertolking, maar ook omdat ik Sorkin een beetje te goed ken wat dat betreft.

En ik schrok me kapot toen Mac zei dat Charlie was overleden. Ik had gehoopt dat hij volgende week nog aanwezig zou zijn voor een herrijzing van ACN, dat net zo hard is ingestort als Charlie.

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Op maandag 8 december 2014 15:45 schreef Gambetta het volgende:
Lijkt erop dat ze het hoge niveau van het begin van het seizoen niet kunnen vasthouden.

Alles met Maggie en Jim: totaal niet boeiend. Dood van mijn favoriete personage wordt er even tussendoor gewerkt in een waardeloze montage. Wills spookvader en het totale anticlimactische einde van die verhaallijn met de zelfmoord van de bron..

Eigenlijk was alleen die verkrachtingsdiscussie tussen Don en die studente leuk, hoop dat ze het niveau voor de finale nog éénmaal kunnen opkrikken

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Op dinsdag 9 december 2014 08:07 schreef Re het volgende:

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sloan was gewoon weer geniaal hoor ,en Will's pa was ook gewoon erg tof gedaan met een mooie arc naar vorige seizoenen, tsja, na episode 4 was dit verder wel een beetje mindere episode. De overname door zo'n gestoorde internethippie vind ik het mindere verhaal maar is wel amusant om te zien. Kijken wat er nu gaat gebeuren want nu de baas dood is heeft die gek vrij spel?

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Op maandag 8 december 2014 17:37 schreef BasvB het volgende:

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Will zat helemaal alleen in de cel "Yeah i was supposed to be in solitary". Die medegevangen was zijn vader, dat zag je op het einde op de foto.

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Op maandag 8 december 2014 17:40 schreef BrainOverfloW het volgende:

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Bij het verlaten van zijn cel zie je Will de foto, waarop hij met zijn vader aan het vissen is, inpakken. Zijn vader is de man met wie hij de cel zat. Die zat dus in zijn hoofd ipv daadwerkelijk in zijn cel.

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Op woensdag 10 december 2014 07:03 schreef Breuls het volgende:
Dons gesprek met Mary schijnt nogal wat tongen te hebben losgemaakt:

HBO’s ‘The Newsroom’ Draws Backlash Over Rape Plot

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Op woensdag 10 december 2014 07:03 schreef Breuls het volgende:
Dons gesprek met Mary schijnt nogal wat tongen te hebben losgemaakt:

HBO’s ‘The Newsroom’ Draws Backlash Over Rape Plot

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Op maandag 15 december 2014 15:05 schreef Libris het volgende:
Wat een super laatste aflevering! Echt genieten, leuk om beelden van het eerste seizoen te zien.

Waardig einde van een super serie. Benieuwd waar Sorkin nu mee komt.

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Op maandag 15 december 2014 15:05 schreef Libris het volgende:
Wat een super laatste aflevering! Echt genieten, leuk om beelden van het eerste seizoen te zien.

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Aaron Sorkin signs off from TV ... maybe

It was just after 11:30 a.m. when Aaron Sorkin rose from the hulking leather club chair in his office to light a cigarette and announce his retirement from television.

The man known for dexterous, incisive dialogue was taking a break from the throes of production on the third and final season of "The Newsroom," his polarizing ode to cable news shooting at the Sunset Gower Studios in Hollywood. And on this early May day, the midway point in filming its six-episode closeout, the HBO drama's swan song was positioned as a duet with its leader.

"I know the whole 'Never say never' stuff," said Sorkin, whose TV imprint also includes "Sports Night," "The West Wing" and "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip." "But I'm pretty certain I'm about to write my last three episodes of television."

As in, ever?

"Yeah. And I want to be really clear about this. Really clear about this," began the 53-year-old creator, writer and producer who has a reputation for taking umbrage at how he's portrayed by the press. "I've loved every minute I've spent in television. And I've had much more failure, as traditionally measured, than success in television. I've done four shows, and only one of them was the 'West Wing.'"

Set in the world of a cable news, "The Newsroom" brought Sorkin back to the small screen five years after his "Saturday Night Live"-inspired drama "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip" tanked on NBC. The new show came outfitted with the trappings one expects with the Sorkin stamp: highly stylized dialogue, an ensemble cast in a workplace and idealistic sensibilities.

The series, which debuted in 2012, also came shortly after his Oscar triumph for writing "The Social Network" and boasted an enviable cast that included Jeff Daniels, Emily Mortimer and Sam Waterston. It was also his first non-broadcast show, finding a home on HBO at a time when meth dealers, zombie fighters and conflicted ad men were dominating TV dramas. Breaking through the entertainment clutter became a real challenge.

While the series has been a solid enough performer — it averaged 2 million viewers per episode in its second season — and proved to be a player during awards season, it also became a surprisingly polarizing show as some critics found it "smug" and "self-indulgent" and others took issue with what they saw as its unflattering portrayal of women.

For a while too there was confusion over a Season 3 renewal. Months after the second season ended last summer, there was still no official word from HBO on the show's future.

Then Daniels, who headlines the series as cantankerous anchor Will McAvoy, tweeted in September 2013 that the show had been renewed — but this was before HBO had made any formal announcement. It turned out the premium network was waiting on Sorkin, who had been busy writing his film adaptation of Walter Isaacson's Steve Jobs autobiography.

Executive producer Alan Poul recalled that at the end of Season 2, there was a sense of "where do we go from here?'"

"A lot of discussions happened," he said. "But, first, Aaron needed to want it. And he had to be alone with that."

Added Sorkin: "I wanted to make sure that if we did, that it was for good reason. That there was a good story to tell. That everybody was still psyched about it. And that this wasn't an obligation.

"And then I had to take my own temperature. And then I asked HBO to announce it as the third and final season, so that everyone would know we were heading for the end."

Sorkin insists that the decision to wrap it up now was in no way a response to the critical noise. Rather, he said, it was a matter of "knowing when to put the crayons down."

Network executives, for one, weren't surprised the coloring was about to stop.

"I know that Season 2 was hard for him, facing the screen and figuring out where to go," said Michael Lombardo, HBO's programming president, in a telephone interview. "So I wasn't shocked."

Over the course of a celebrated career, Sorkin has been open about his difficulties with putting words to a page and meeting deadlines. During the May sit-down interview, a draft for the fourth episode had been due two days before — but the man who started his career as a playwright had nothing.

It's the trade-off of being in business with Sorkin, according to Lombardo.

"I told him a number of times, 'I am not a procrastinator,'" Lombardo said. "And yet, I don't know how many moments where it's the day before table read, and we didn't have a draft. Not even an outline. Nothing. I would be cursing to myself and grumbling. And then I would receive a draft, and I would get chills. The thing I learned about Aaron over time is that the procrastination is not because he is sitting at home reading the newspaper. It torments him. But that is his process."

And if he was going to do one more season, Sorkin knew he needed someone who could help run the writers' room — "getting the best out of writing staffs is not something I've always been good at." He recruited Paul Lieberstein (who played Toby on "The Office" and served as its executive producer for several seasons) to join the series as an executive producer.

This season will have one story that unfolds over its entirety. Among the issues that the "News Night" team will tackle this year are the Boston Marathon bombing and citizen journalism, the ethics of obtaining and reporting classified documents and, of course, relationships.

Sorkin has plopped himself, in semi-cross-legged fashion, on the carpet of the newsroom set as the cast and crew scoot in. He often takes breaks from the writers' room during rehearsals to give the room direction. And in this moment he's guiding them in a scene that involves a climactic moment to the storyline about classified documents.

"You are all right in this situation," Sorkin tells his cast as TV screens play looped footage from the Boston Marathon aftermath and a red-carpet awards show. "Each one of you is right. Will is right for trying to cooperate. Mac is right for being a little defiant. Neal is right for wanting to sacrifice himself. And so on. You are all right. No one is wrong."

Daniels, later in his trailer, pointed to that moment in the huddle as representative of why an Aaron Sorkin show is worth doing.

"The man has passion, and he wants you to feel it just as strongly as he did when he wrote it," Daniels said. Still, he's more pragmatic than sentimental about the show's conclusion.

"I'm not saying I can't wait to get out of here, but I think we threw everything we had at it," he said. "I can see where if we continued Season 4 or 5, we might've started repeating ourselves."

Fast-forward to late October, and Sorkin is now less than a few weeks away from the show's premiere. A few major news stories — like the ebola outbreak — have broken since the show wrapped.

Even so, Sorkin isn't wishing he had kept "The Newsroom" alive to use the stories as the needle to his thread. But he occasionally finds himself thinking of another one of his shows.

"I've noticed myself saying, 'Gee, there would have been a good "West Wing" episode in that,' " Sorkin said in a follow-up telephone interview. "So, in a few years, is when I expect to be doing that with 'The Newsroom.' I'm never done with something I've created.

"I've never written anything that I haven't wanted to write again. I want to, and still am, writing 'A Few Good Men' again," said Sorkin, referring to his first play that made it to the big screen in 1992 and starred Tom Cruise and Jack Nicholson. "I didn't know what I was doing then, and I'm still trying to get it right. I would write 'The Social Network' again if they would let me, I'd write 'Moneyball' again. I would write 'The West Wing' again. And, yeah, I'd write 'The Newsroom' again."

And what about that earlier retirement declaration?

"All these months later, I still don't see another series in my near future," he said. "But, again, you never know. Maybe I'll get another idea."

Cue the headlines.

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Op dinsdag 16 december 2014 15:46 schreef InTrePidIvity het volgende:
Wel erg zwak dat Neal zo makkelijk de digitale redactie overhaalde, beetje cliché.

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Vind het jammer dat het afgelopen is. Voor m'n gevoel was de serie an sich nog niet klaar, ook al hebben ze alle lijntjes voldoende afgerond. Voldoende zou ook m'n cijfer van de laatste aflevering zijn, niet heel uitzonderlijk.

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Op dinsdag 16 december 2014 17:37 schreef Xaobotnik het volgende:

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Het was altijd al een tijdelijk verhaal voor de huidige crew. Twee afleveringen geleden was dat al duidelijk dat Neal in gewoon nog steeds de main guy is als het op de site aankomt. Hij haalt ze ook niet over, hij zegt gewoon dat ze het gaan doen.

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Op dinsdag 16 december 2014 18:27 schreef InTrePidIvity het volgende:

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Neal was totaal niet de main guy in de filosofie van Pruit, die op dat moment toch nog erg de baas was. Op de begrafenis werd pas het besluit genomen om een andere koers te gaan varen, waar de mensen op de redactie ongetwijfeld niet van op de hoogte waren. Daarnaast vond ik de 'speech' gewoon zwak.

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And you run our website until Neal Sampat's back.

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Op vrijdag 23 januari 2015 09:36 schreef Iwanius het volgende:
Inderdaad heel jammer. Ik vond 'm zelfs beter dan alle seizoenen van House of Lies die ik ook volgde.
Btw: Wanneer komt het laatste seizoen uit in Nederland? (HoL)