The Newsroom Season 1 Episode 10 recap How is it that a Season Finale that involves, among other things, a suicide and a man with life-threatening internal bleeding was so slow and boring?   I was never worried about Will, because they told me he was going to be fine in the first 10 minutes, so I got to watch him pontificate from bed over how he was leaving the show – which I also wasn’t worried about. Full Story

The Newsroom Season 1 Episode 9 Dear Mackenzie, How are ya?  Good? Good. Yeah, yeah, busy.  No, I know.   I know.   You?   Oh…really?  Well.   I kind of heard something about that.   Yeah… You were screaming in the middle of the Newsroom, right? Something about Jesus avenging you against having to report bad news? … Oh. Full Story

The Newsroom Season 1 Episode 8 recap This was the line that struck me, last night, in what was easily the best episode of The Newsroom so far.   Though there were still problems, the show took the time to focus on what it does, and wants to do, best: examining the difference between the news that should be reported, and that which is instead. Full Story

The Newsroom Season 1 Episode 6 recap The following are some of the mistakes made by women in this episode: Mixing up Georgia the state and Georgia the country. Thinking “LOL” means “Lots Of Love” – even when you were born in 1988. Changing your mind about something to do with your career because there is the promise of Gucci clothing. Full Story

The Newsroom Season 1 Episode 5 I’m never that far from The Newsroom.  That’s something that felt giddy and gossipy a couple of weeks ago that now feels tiresome.  Because nothing is different. The show is still way out of its depth when it comes to human beings relating to each other in a human way,  men and women – well, you already know the drill  -  but it’s changed for me, from being can’t-look-away car crash to just…exhaustion. Full Story

The Newsroom Season 1 Episode 4 “The fourth episode!” some Newsroom fans cried, as proof that the show is really going somewhere despite acknowledged flaws in the beginning.   “The fourth episode” critics snorted, pointing out that if you thought the show was unbelievable now, wait ‘til you caught up. Full Story

The Newsroom Season 1 Episode 3 recap I like high-low fashion, that whole concept of a skirt you spent way too much on paired with a Forever 21 tee and shoes you would never tell anyone were by Jessica Simpson.  It makes me feel like I’m getting away with something, like I’m savvy, because I can pair one with the other and still (hopefully) pull off a look. Full Story

The Newsroom Season 1 Episode 2 recap I shouldn’t really have a problem with The Newsroom. I should just say, with the blasé disconnect of someone who doesn’t care that much, that the show is as trite as it wants to be important, that women who make stupid elementary mistakes in a medium like email that they would only have been using by-the-minute for at least 10 years are not adorable, and that the very elementary writing salvo, “Show, don’t tell” seems to have been forgotten entirely at Sorkin HQ, since Mac spends all her time screaming that Will’s not a dick (didn’t you think she wanted to say “dick”? Would HBO not allow this?) while he acts like one. Full Story

The Newsroom Season 1 Episode 1 recap Are you sick of reading about The Newsroom?  Or did you watch, and now you're invigorated and all the reviews don't matter anymore? I read them all, of course, and I thought I'd be enraged. And I was - of course I was.  It's only stupid blonde girls who make mistakes like asking questions and getting called “sorority girl” for their trouble. Full Story

As I mentioned yesterday, Aaron Sorkin’s new show The Newsroom, premiering on HBO Canada and HBO on Sunday at 10pm, is being ripped apart by critics. It’s not that they don’t have a point: Sorkin is sentimental, smug, preachy, wordy, and it can be infuriating the way he writes women. Full Story

They’re dating??? 80% of you just clicked away when you realised this story is about a writer. But not just any writer! Few writers have the Aaron Sorkin profile. Writers are not supposed to live in front of their words. But somehow the Sorkins and the Diablo Codys of the world have become part of the conversation too. Full Story