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#599 - Olbermanncore (Newsroom Part 6) (Patreon)

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In episode six of THE NEWSROOM ("Bullies"), Aaron Sorkin brings some much-needed shading and complexity to the character of Will McAvoy. But of course, "complexity" and "self-flattery" can sometimes overlap.

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Mid-Sized SeDan

Could someone elaborate on the Olbermann reference? I don't know what exactly he represents in the media landscape

Matt Maddox

Will, here's some On Cinema, On Location-style trivia for you: I worked on the Sunset Gower lot when they were shooting season two of The Newsroom and the main newsroom set was built on Stage 7 which is the same stage where the Stooges filmed nearly all of their shorts back when it was Columbia Pictures. You can see Stage 7 as the loading dock for "Panther Brewing" in Three Little Beers and they show various angles in Movie Maniacs. The Sorkin/Stoogeverse is real!

James Washburn

Lorne Has Lost His Fucking Mind and Someone Needs to Shoot Him in the Back of the Head was the runner-up to what eventually was called I Think You Should Leave.

Kranky

“Early 20’s instagram actors” Will has never sounded as 55 years old as he did there lollll

revolverbunny

Can't wait for your Trial of the Chicago 7 episode!

Ciaran Colley

Have to be honest, I saw 'Saturday Night' in the cinema, and quite enjoyed it, probably because of the mainly uncanny valley resemblance of each actor to their real-life equivalents. But you had me at 'Sorkin meets Birdman'.

Ciaran Colley

As for Will McAvoy's insomnia, I was immediately put in mind of the Mitchell and Webb sketch on a Sorkinesque TV lawyer called 'Speedo'. Asked why he's up in the middle of the night gazing out his window, he says he's thinking about how goddamn much he loves justice - I was half-expecting Will not to be able to sleep on account of something similar, but in terms of the goddamn news

Zwoozy

You're really going to hate it when I tell you that the "Mean Tweets" segments are scripted by the show writers.

Evan Hiltunen

Love the imagery of his talking being like a salad shooter? Apparently this writer has never been around someone who’s high on cocaine (at least not wittingly). Everything about that passage screams coked up frat boy high pressure yap session

Eric Cline

Sirs: MISTER Jeff Daniels most certainly does not have to have a guitar "photoshopped" into his hands. He is an accomplished singer, player, and songwriter, as heard here when he gives your fellow Canadian a well-deserved takedown. https://youtu.be/9C6zk2NOGSc?si=9EBwFxsl6GdbLdIC

sinesynced

Having never seen the show, The Newsroom seems shockingly structurally similar to Evangelion. You have the main guy (Shinji), the team behind the camera (Misato), the shadowy cabal behind the scenes (Gendo). Doing the news is really just mech combat in Sorkin's imagination

4zero1k

HBO has a segment after each episode of Sorkin breaking down the episode. Might be worth watching …

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>>165367348

Having never seen Evangelion, that show seems shockingly similar to the Newsroom. You have the main guy (Jeff… Newsroom?) the team behind the camera (Alison pill and the skinny tie guy who isn’t Don), the shadowy cabal behind the scenes (Jane Fonda and her son who went to Harvard).

George Olken

Related, George Clooney making his Broadway debut as Edward Murrow in stage adaptation of "Good Night, and Good Luck." Possible Michael & Us at the movies on Broadway?

Michael

You guys should check out Tim Robinson’s “I Think You Should Leave” and do an episode on it - incredible absurdist, surreal sketch comedy

trasparenti

Beating a dead horse I know but the opening sketch of SNL's 50th anniv special was perfect proof of its utter lack of vitality, if it even had any (at least in the past, what, two decades?). Will Ferrell trots out his Robert Goulet impersonation for an audience at least partially born after Goulet's death for a sketch that at one point wittily makes light of the fact that - have you heard this, folks? - Kim Kardashian has a big butt

Brad MacDonald

The National Post did a mean tweets video once. Watch that if you want to have the worst fucking time ever.