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99 Words About … Viewer dissatisfaction with HBO’s ‘The Newsroom’

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LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL
July 10, 2013 - 6:24 pm
 

It may not have been the hot-stone massage for the temporal lobe that Aaron Sorkin-ites wanted. But to be hate-watched?

Hate-watched?

Plenty of viewers disliked the way “The Newsroom’s” (10 p.m. Sunday, HBO) strong, intelligent females turned ditzy whenever a cute boy wandered by.

But the cable-news drama’s worst offense was the feeling it existed in a time warp solely so Sorkin could cherry-pick 2-year-old news stories to make his characters look brilliant through the benefit of hindsight.

Still, it’s kinda worth it this season just for the scenes of Jeff Daniels mindlessly singing snippets of Rebecca Black’s “Friday.”

— CHRISTOPHER LAWRENCE

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