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Amid all those speeches, there's beauty, passion, heart and brains in The Newsroom. There's also humor, even more than ever in Sunday's opener.
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The season premiere is The Newsroom at its best.
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Season 3 begins strongly and is a joy to behold--with heightened stakes.
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With the end in sight, this is a faster paced, more focused, less annoying Newsroom than in the first two seasons.
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The Newsroom returns for a truncated six-episode final season, it appears that less may be more--as in, more absorbing and more entertaining, with less irritation from slapstick rom-com subplots that tend to make smart people (especially the women) look insultingly stupid.
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A still pointed but more controlled take on the crossroads of media and culture, The Newsroom is now much closer to the show that many hoped it would be.
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Season 3 begins with both ACN and Mr. Sorkin in a tamped-down, focused mode. That’s generally a good thing.
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By this third season, The Newsroom is a show that's smoothed itself out, for good and for bad. The lows aren't nearly as low--Maggie, long the show's worst example of Sorkin's difficulties in writing for women, is so competent and confident this year that guys like Jim (John Gallagher Jr.) and Don (Thomas Sadoski) feel like doofuses around her--but nor are the highs especially high.
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The Newsroom has never been entirely sure about its intentions, failing to carve out a unique identity. While a certain haphazard uncertainty may be a fitting quality for a series about our own fractured political and media landscape, and where the actions of good people are paralyzed by the need for content production, Sorkin's own sputtering pen suggests that such imprecision was not his aim.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 63 out of 81
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Mixed: 5 out of 81
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Negative: 13 out of 81
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