The Newsroom

I just started watching The Newsroom recently with my brother and it's every bit as good as everyone says it is. I'm about a decade late to the party but at least I finally got here. The story is about a fictional cable news network led by lead news anchor Will McAvoy (Jeff Daniels). The episodes are written about recent news events by a staff that takes its jobs very seriously but corporate and personal obstacles keep getting in their way. The Newsroom might be Aaron Sorkin's best work of his hall of fame career. It's fascinating from the beginning to the very end. All you have to do is read through the reviews here to see how loved this show really is.

This show should mandatory watch in many university courses. Not only it's beautifully written with deeply satisfying and layered story telling, but also aged like a fine wine.

Great acting, great writing, great stories. Even more relevant in 2025 than ever before. I can't really add anything else, short of amazing.

So good!

I have never felt as driven to make sure other people understood just how perfect a show was. Not for Game of Thrones, Firefly, Sopranos or any of the other shows I obsess about. But this show changed that! This show boils down everything that is wrong with America and puts out a simple answer to solving that. DO THE BLOODY NEWS LIKE IT'S NEWS NOT A HIGH SCHOOL PROM ELECTION!

Jeff Daniels is perfect in his role as the tired beaten down journalist that just doesn't give a damn about anything anymore, but used too. And we can see the spark that ignites him to become great again. Why aren't real reporters like this? Why oh why?

If this show get's cancelled I will camp out in front of HBO HQ and not leave till the last Game of Thrones series comes out (because I have to get on with my life at some point).

This was my first review ever on IMDb, all because of this amazing show! You better watch it as well!

I was not expecting The Newsroom to be nearly as good as it is. I'm not sure why I didn't hear more about this when it was originally on, I guess there are just so many great HBO shows it must've just got blurred in with the rest of them but this show deserves all the love it has gotten and more. Jeff Daniels has had a pretty solid acting career but this is easily his best role. The rest of the cast includes the always beautiful and talented Olivia Munn, Emily Mortimer, Dev Patel, Sam Waterston, David Harbour, John Gallagher Jr., Alison Pill, and so many other talented actors that I would be here forever naming them all. Their acting and the outstanding writing is what makes this show so special.

I am watching it for a second time. All of the critics are acting as if Aaron Sorkin kicked dirt in their faces. The critics said nothing of substance- just vitriolic rants. Maybe Sorkin has hit a nerve. In a sea of crap T.V. this is entertaining. Believe me, we all know that the Newsroom characters are no more realistic than President Bartlet or Sam or Toby, Josh,Leo, C.J., Josh, or Donna. I don't think for one minute that the President of the United States has a secretary who doles out cookies, but I desperately need to believe that we are capable of being all of these characters. I desperately need to be quixotic for an hour a week.