One of my top 5 Chapo episodes. I have lost count of how many times I've listened to it. "Women do be talking like that" makes me piss myself laughing every time.
They brush over it but Amber has the best description of Sorkin shows ever " he's just writing out the fantasies he has in the shower after watching the morning News" In my own scripts early on that was a thing that crept into my writing and my partner had to pull me up on that kind of self indulgence. My point is I grew out of that at 17 but I know what it's like, the smugness that sneaks its way onto the page, Sorkin is like twice my age, he should have learnt
Who needs a gun when you have a great big pile of COCAINE TO FUEL YOUR WRITING AT 330 IN THE MORNING WHEN YOURSCRIPTISDUEAT9!!!!!!!!! Although I know he was clean by this point, that disconnection from reality persists.
What makes Chapo the greatest podcast on Earth? There is absolutely no evidence to support that claim. Chapo is the 44th most listened to podcast on Spotify. They lead the world in only one category: number of episodes about Rod Dreher, more episodes than the next twenty podcasts combined. I don't know what the hell you're talking about?! Sure used to be though...
What if there was a new Aaron Sorkin show that was Aaron Sorkin digging his own grave and then being shot and falling into it and then all of his works were stuffed inside with his corpse and then buried and then nobody ever spoke of him or his works again.
This show would've been way better if Jeff newsrooms coverage of the goddamn news actually did affect the events and politics of the country and the world It would be totally ridiculous but would be far more entertaining than the actual show is
The best scene in the (GODDAMN)Newsroom was the global warming interview with the guy from the office as the EPA representative, because the show seemed to imply that this guy's gone off the deep end, but every climate headline since that show aired has just made him more correct. He's now objectively right.
Global Warming is the biggest embarrassment of leftwing political prognostication PRECISELY BECAUSE every single prediction they have made has been wildly wrong. Watch An Inconvenient Truth in 2023 it's completely discrediting.
I think its the total opposite, you can see it during that moment on Crossfire back in the day when John Stewart first called him out, Tucker decided to be the bad guy. I think he purposefully abandoned the truth in favor of control over the masses.
Jeff newsroom reminds us all that we are, in fact, Americans. That’s confusing for those of us who are not Americans, but it’s the price of American freedom nonetheless.
To expand an the shower thing; This show is the same as the one where the big reveal is that it’s all happening inside a kid’s snow globe, but instead of a snow globe it’s all happening inside sorkin’s head in the shower
All of Sorkin's shows are the same. The same witty banter. The same hot-cold personalities. 'Flammable' and 'inflammable' meaning the same thing. And being a child of the 70's, Sorkin is always keen to have his smart characters play chess.
Man, I remember when this show was out. I was working my college newspaper and everyone, being the young idealist we were, ate this show up. I'm sure it's aged horribly but I'll always be found of the memory of it.
Oh definetly acting like a Sorkin character, they really hit on something with the west wing episode in that Sorkins politics are vastly more influential than are given credit for. And his politics are absolute and complete horseshit.
Funny thing is, when Sorkin has to write about a specific actual human being or situation and there is a great director to filter through his scripts, his writing is fantastic. Both “Steve Jobs” and “The Social Network” are fascinating portraits of *unique* men that surely required a crazy amount of research, while everything he has written that is fictional is embarrassing moderate/liberal trite. And his directing skills clearly don’t measure up to his screenwriting skills.
Mark in The Social Network acts like a Sorkin character but everyone responds to him like how people would in real life, i.e. being annoyed and turned off.
@@anyoneattheendoftime4932 yeah, it's one of the things that's SO GOOD about that movie. It's an active deconstruction of the standard Sorkin character.
@@HorsefaceKillaMoneyball is the one they should have done the most, because you get to see Sorkins bafflingly stupid views on economics on full display.
If you like this episode, you'll like The West Wing Thing with Josh Olsen and Dave Anthony. They managed to make it through the show, so it's ended now, but they did every single episode of the show, plus a few.
Speaking of Jane Fonda, if you think of Millennial/Gen Zs as being very similar to their Boomer grandparents (which I do) in terms of their smug, smirking certainty that they've cracked the code , and are on the verge of transforming society, it's SUPER satisfying to anticipate the "1977" stage of their life journey. That pendulum tho! 🤣😉🤣
My favorite part of THE Newsroom is the last scene where Jeff is hiking some trail in Yosemite and the camera zooms onto his face and with a smile and a tear he said," This place is alright." And then it zooms out to a wide shot of Inspiration Point with a bald eagle flying by and making the wrong noise.
49:36 No, Aaron. It really doesn't look good that you wrote her to say that then wrote him to tell her that she feels the wrong way about it. It's really, really not a good look. Or, like, I don't know writing a character who is incensed at the impropriety of someone bringing a gun into his home taking it from the purse and approach her with it in his apartment. But I guess if she made sensible decisions based on the news, she'd already have a man to take her gun from her and lecture her and she doesn't even need to worry about dark alleys.
Can someone explain to me how you measure which countries “have freedom?” 🤔 I wouldn’t be surprised if this guy was using the Heritage Foundation “Freedom Index.”
The way people gush over this show is bizarre. I look at comments praising insane stuff and it just boggles the mind especially people who like that one characters screaming banshee speech about a power outage being a miracle
As a non American and someone who was not ivolved in any capacity of the"newscoverage" of the show. Someone who watched it just for the show it was and wasn't looking at it as just a dream fanatasy of Aaron Sorkin. I thought the show was great. Still think it is. its in my top 5 shows. Because its not just about the news. Its about a group of pationate people who forking love doing what they do. And want to do it better day in and day out. Its about flawed characters who are striving to do better and wish that the world was a bit better. And i think the Sorkin dialogs are really fun to listen to. They are snappy and flows really well with not much time waisted on some bs.
@@neomcdoom it's called growing up, Felix touched on it in the west wing episode, if your 14, the perfect age to be a Lib, then they are great but eventually you grow and realize that Sorkin like the politics he loves, only deals in fantasy.
Wow, I just came from your West Wing video, and unsurprisingly, you start off with BS. How the hell is the Newsroom a sequel to the West Wing? What, because they had the same writer? That doesn't make it a sequel. You people kill me.
@@dirrdevil I'm seriously having a difficult time trying to figure out if your comment was meant to be funny. Certainly no one could actually utter the words....spiritual sequel...and expect to be taken seriously. And if only the lunacy stopped there. But nope. You have to one up it, talking some nonsense about the same person in charge....the same person in charge? Are you talking about Sorkin? He's a screenwriter and director. That doesn't make him in charge. But even if he was, what are you suggesting exactly? That everything they write about or direct, is a sequel to each other? If your comment was simply meant to be tongue-n-cheek, you need to work on that. But if it was serious?.....Well....unfortunately no amount of work is likely to help you.
That gun scene sure was well thought out. What was she supposed to do? Shoot him with an unloaded gun? Even if it was loaded was she supposed to commit murder?
