The Newsroom
The Newsroom is the latest Aaron Sorkin project, which airs on HBO and just finished it’s first season. I love Aaron Sorkin the same way I love John Williams – they are amazing visionaries and I will at least try to like everything they do. Weird Al is also included in this group. Unfortunately for Sorkin, The West Wing was seriously one of the greatest television shows of all time, which makes anything else he tries comparable to The West Wing and obviously not as good. Studio 60 barely made it through its first season and, to be fair, it was not good. I enjoyed it because of Matthew Perry and Bradley Whitford, but everyone pretty much agrees that it was a failed attempt. I wonder if it was because Sorkin was trying so hard to change it up from The West Wing that he went a little too far. Or maybe, since his wheelhouse is politics, doing a project about a late night sketch comedy show just didn’t work out. However, The Newsroom is back where he belongs – polit