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The first 15 mins of the pilot episode of newsroom are the most enticing beginning a TV series can have. And somehow, inexplicably, the series has been to live up to the standards set by it. I know IMDb members are quite divided when it comes to their views on Newsroom, i find it one of the most entertaining TV series currently running. And this season premiere was exciting.

Following the same pattern of using a real life event as the backdrop of the episode, the story runs at a blazing fast pace, while establishing it clearly that Will and his team are on a course to redeem themselves from the shame of Genoa goof up. The best part was the conclusion of the episode. I love to see how they all come together as a family to fight each others battles. I had a feeling in season two, that the whole family analogy was becoming too cheesy. But in this episode Sorkin seems to have hit all the right notes. I am super excited for the next 5 episodes.

With Will and his bride-to-be planning their wedding, news breaks of the Boston Marathon bombing. This by itself could have been the subject of the entire episode. We see how the station anxiously awaits confirmation of what has occurred and then desperately tries to interview spectators from the blast.

The story gets bogged down by 2 other situations hitting the station. Zev Patel gets involved with having information that could lead him to being declared a traitor to the country and it appears that a take over of the station by someone else is under way.

What was Will's speech to the workers all about? It was muddled and confused at best. He himself even admits that.

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Sorkin's admirable attempt to dramatize the news section with a gut wrenching anatomy on behind the scenes of this show business, is one of the biggest upset ever to come across the screen. And not because of its failure on various aspects, it still falls under mediocrity but the expectations that it brought with such caliber of cast and makers, it is surely a swing and a miss. Sorkin's signature writing patterns is clearly visible as it is brimmed with competitive arguments and too many verbal sparring that moves with ferocious pace, he always keeps his audience on the edge of their seat trying to keep up with the narration.

But as much political galore this vision is, the actual content, the core of the drama that it has to and does rely upon is the real culprit in here. The conversations are chalky and the connections of the plots to pass the storyline forward is poorly weaved out. It seems like the venue has changed but the usual love affairs and breaking and mending of equations, is still their, the seen-this-seen-that details are outdated and audience is much smarter than this. The execution too isn't appropriately handled along with the camera work that is more pretentious than it is productive.

The only responsible man that makes your time worth is Daniels, in his morally complex and socially challenged coat that he is in, which too may seem like your usual anti-hero, but has much to offer as the character ages on screen. Supporting parallel-y is Mortimer whose quirkiness is easily absorbing, than her drama is, to be fair she isn't given the range to factor on a larger scale. Other supporting cast like Pill, Patel, Munn, Sadoski and Gallagher Jr. are the weak links to the series. The Newsroom could have been much more than just news, and this time even Sorkin couldn't convince us to watch the news.

Season 03

Scoffing off the melodramatic antics, this season is probably the best among all for depicting the least of any type of drama explored previously, it pins down all to one big case that is thoroughly investigated and triumphed over, something for the makers to sigh about the closure they achieve in here.

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Off to a better start considering the previous ones, and with threats surrounding especially the part where the hard work is flushed down with an eye popping revelations that clocks them at zero shows Sorkin's mark on script to keep the crisp alive.