Lastwolf
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I liked it enough to give it a few episodes, If it's just going to follow news stories from a year ago it's gonna get old quick.
Nope, never.Shit, will the first episode be on again?
Even HBO would be very disappointed with the Daily Show's or Colbert's numbers with a series like this. They have about 1.5-1.2 million viewers per night.A lot them of seem to watch Stephen Colbert and he does nothing else.
What kind of ratings does Real Time get? Because I'd imagine they'd both attract the same crowd (even though I've only ever seen snippets of Bill Maher's show).Even HBO would be very disappointed with the Daily Show's or Colbert's numbers with a series like this. They have about 1.5-1.2 million viewers per night.
And that is a predominantly liberal crowd.
What kind of ratings does Real Time get? Because I'd imagine they'd both attract the same crowd (even though I've only ever seen snippets of Bill Maher's show).
Allergically inflamed Ellen Page is a confusingly annoying character. She's supposed to be playing flustered naive newbie 101, but then she launches into high brow Sorkin monologues at the drop of a hat, which sort of undermines the point of her character. Everyone talks like Sorkin in Sorkin stuff, but if that isn't necessarily a good thing.I groan everytime the Ellen Page look alike comes on the screen.
I didn't get that decision at all. If you're going to go balls to the wall with a super-idealistic show about "doing the news the right way", then forge ahead and hire the "old cantankerous economist in the bow tie" (or whatever she said the alternative was) and use the writing to make him interesting. If anything, your viewers will recognize what you're doing and appreciate it even more. They'll root for you even more because of the "underdog" factor.Daniels is owning it but I agree the support cast could have been much stronger. I don't really like Mortimer's acting in anything and this isn't doing anything to change my mind. We also appear to now have a token black guy who gets to make little quips, the usual love triangle story, the eccentric old mentor and the eye candy reporter, its all a bit paint by numbers.
That said I actually liked the first two episodes, thats not a huge revelation being a Sorkin fan but its got potential to grow into something great over a season or two.
He is a bellend, a known technophobe as well.Sorkin comes across as a bellend
Preachiness is only charming if you agree with the sermon. Otherwise it's irritating.Every Sorkin show is a bit preachy, that's some of the charm of them.
I agree. can't stand the sermons and have never been a fan of Sorkin for that very reason.Preachiness is only charming if you agree with the sermon. Otherwise it's irritating.
Personally I find all indoctrination in entertainment offensive. It's an insult to the intelligence of the viewer, and an violation of their right to make up their own minds about the world, without some self-important hooker-abusing cokehead trying to tell them what to think.
Not that I've seen as much as 5 minutes of Sorkin's work, of course.
The whole office romantic comedy angle is pathetic and cringe-inducing.Yeah the 3rd one was much better than the 2nd. Though moon face is still annoying, and it's baffling why Squinty McSmug would be obsessed with her in an office improbably packed with young attractive intelligent women
To be fair to Sorkin, his sermons are well crafted and quite balanced.Preachiness is only charming if you agree with the sermon. Otherwise it's irritating.
Personally I find all indoctrination in entertainment offensive. It's an insult to the intelligence of the viewer, and an violation of their right to make up their own minds about the world, without some self-important hooker-abusing cokehead trying to tell them what to think.
Not that I've seen as much as 5 minutes of Sorkin's work, of course.
Non sense. In this very show, he is preaching that US was much better in previous decades. In a recent interview he said best period for US was 40s. Yeah, a period when blacks were treated like slaves and had no rights. Women were not given equal rights as well. Let alone any talk of homosexuals.To be fair to Sorkin, his sermons are well crafted and quite balanced.