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The Newsroom [HBO - Spoilers]

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  • #962
    Kirby
    Registered Users Posts: 13,084 ✭✭✭✭Kirby


    As finale's go, I thought that was quite a good one. The sing song was very self indulgent and out of place. Not a little, a lot. But I enjoyed everything else and saw it as a fitting way to end the show.

    I'm clearly in the minority so. I liked it.


  • #963
    ixoy
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 17,988 Mod ✭✭✭✭ixoy


    Agreeing with those who said it was mediocre, you got to laugh at how righteous they got about Truitt not treating women employees equally and then watch how the same people go and promote their friends and lovers instead of actually giving everyone a fair chance.


  • #964
    FlyingIrishMan
    Registered Users Posts: 2,860 ✭✭✭FlyingIrishMan


    ixoy wrote: »
    Agreeing with those who said it was mediocre, you got to laugh at how righteous they got about Truitt not treating women employees equally and then watch how the same people go and promote their friends and lovers instead of actually giving everyone a fair chance.

    It was Truitt who promoted her though, not any of her friends or Will. The whole point of the women equality spiel to Truitt was to sort of guilt him into promoting Mackenzie, who deserved it.


  • #965
    ixoy
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 17,988 Mod ✭✭✭✭ixoy


    FlyingIrishMan wrote: »
    It was Truitt who promoted her though, not any of her friends or Will. The whole point of the women equality spiel to Truitt was to sort of guilt him into promoting Mackenzie, who deserved it.
    I'm not talking about that promotion. I'm talking about Mackenzie immediately promoting her friend Jim (after asking her pal Don) and then Jim, in turn, immediately looking to promote the woman he sleeps with. This is the sort of things employee equality trials love.


  • #966
    Hyzepher
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 4,659 Mod ✭✭✭✭Hyzepher


    The finale made me go back and rewatch the pilot - still think Will's speech at the college was great


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  • #967
    ixoy
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 17,988 Mod ✭✭✭✭ixoy


    Hyzepher wrote: »
    The finale made me go back and rewatch the pilot - still think Will's speech at the college was great
    If only Sorkin was able to keep capturing those sort of moments. He could do an excellent rant as well as some interesting debates.

    One other thing - thought Jeff Daniels was excellent in this episode. Fitting that his final performance here was one of his best.


  • #968
    Penn
    Registered Users Posts: 33,215 ✭✭✭✭Penn


    ixoy wrote: »
    I'm not talking about that promotion. I'm talking about Mackenzie immediately promoting her friend Jim (after asking her pal Don) and then Jim, in turn, immediately looking to promote the woman he sleeps with. This is the sort of things employee equality trials love.

    Jim trying to promote Maggie, fair enough. But Mackenzie trying to promote Don (who had that job before her) and then promoting Jim (who was the Senior producer under her) both make perfect sense.


  • #969
    WeHaveToGoBack
    Registered Users Posts: 355 ✭✭WeHaveToGoBack


    Contrary to what most people here seem to think, I thought it was an excellent episode, and a great end to the series.

    One of my favourite shows of the past few years; such a shame to see it end.


  • #970
    leggo
    Registered Users Posts: 9,061 ✭✭✭leggo


    I dunno, are people down on Jeff Daniels too? I thought he always put forth a great effort with whatever he was given consistently during the show's run. He really owned the Will character. Maybe it was all because they were drinking the Sorkin Kool Aid, but I thought you could say the same about most actors in the show. They seemed committed to the project.


  • #971
    DoYouEvenLift
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,188 ✭✭✭DoYouEvenLift


    Finally got to catch up with the final season. Sad that it's finished now and that it only had 6 episodes. It was a good season but not as good as the first two. Was kind of cool seeing how up-to-date Sorkin seems to be with social media and the state of news reporting nowadays, especially the references to how much work some sites like 4chan put into trying to help with finding the Boston bomber. Charlie's death was unexpected and badly done though, he was probably my favourite character and it seems like it wasn't done well. Definitely agree with the post about the sing song being out of place, you just have to laugh about it though.


    Also, once again, struggled to keep track of what's going on when Sloan/Olivia Munn was on screen because of how fuking hot she is. Plus those fappening pics and what she said on them kept playing over in my head.


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