Does This Mean Sorkin Knows NEWSROOM Season 1 Sucked?
I’ve never made it past episode 5 of The Newsroom. The show always feel like a shallow liberal fantasy world, compared to the textured and nuanced liberal fantasy world of The West Wing, which I love dearly. And it seemed like every bit of writing was rehashed from another Sorkin show. Hey, even auteurs, including the rare auteur film/TV writer like Sorkin, fail sometimes.
Now as we look to Season 2, Aaron Sorkin has opened up about the angst around the series, including a false start to the second season, to the Hollywood Reporter:
For Sorkin, moving back and forth in the story via flashbacks proved a bigger challenge than he had anticipated. “I doubt HBO’s going to be happy with my telling you this, but I got off to a false start with season two,” he acknowledges, noting that only after he wrote the first three episodes and shot the first two did he realize that structural decisions he had made would prove problematic later in the season. He admits others had tried to warn him, but until he had finished the third script he was convinced he simply wasn’t writing well enough. “With my hat in my hand, I went to HBO and said, ‘Would it be all right if I started again? I know it’s going to cost time and it’s going to cost a lot of money.’ Other networks would have said no.”
Sorkin went on to say something along the lines of, “Ya, don’t bother watching the first season, because this is a whole new Newsroom.” (Ok, his exact quote was, “Anybody coming to it new is not going to have much trouble picking up what’s going on.”) We’ll find out if this really is a new and improved The Newsroom when the show premieres on July 14.
Source: THR
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