EPISODE
SEASON
The Newsroom - Season 1
Will McAvoy is the most popular news anchor in the U.S. back to life by a public breakdown and the arrival of his ex-love MacKenzie McHale. She comes in with one mission - to change the show from a pandering, ratings driven news program to a truth driven, ethical and fair news report reminiscent of the original news programs.
31 May 1975, Okinawa, Japan
4 September 1964, New York City, New York, USA
28 December 1985, Manassas, Virginia, USA
23 June 1980, La Crosse, Wisconsin, USA
3 July 1980, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
September 26, 2013
Frustration is the overwhelming feeling coming out of watching the entire first season of The Newsroom.
June 24, 2012
Perhaps it was a foolish expectation on my part to hope that Sorkin might respond to his critics and improve his heretofore successful formula.
June 24, 2012
Monstrously misconceived and incompetently executed, powered by a high-octane blend of arrogance and contempt, The Newsroom is an epochal failure, a program destined for television's all-time What Were They Thinking?
June 24, 2012
It all feels over-overwrought.
September 16, 2013
Ultimately, no one appears more deluded than Sorkin. His Will McAvoy is an insufferable blowhard, but the show spends most of its energy trying to convince us he's a saint.
June 24, 2012
There's plenty of heart here - and some very sharp writing and acting, too.
June 24, 2012
The show offers a lot of great talking, but to whom does it wish to speak?
June 11, 2013
This just in: The Newsroom stinks.
March 28, 2014
Speechifying, crusading characters and high drama are acceptable when the future of the free world is at risk; less so when it's the future of an 11pm cable news show.
June 24, 2012
The biggest problem with The Newsroom - and it's one of many, many problems - is that its goals and its narrative strategies are in direct conflict with each other.
