EPISODE
SEASON
The Newsroom - Season 1
This drama series revolves around the life of a news anchor named Will McAvoy. The Atlantis Cable News Channel experiences a change in their newsroom when the previous team members decide to leave the show and jump to another one. Now, Will McAvoy has no other option but to work with his new colleagues, which brings unanticipated fruition.
18 April 1976, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
24 February 1955, Lodi, New Jersey, USA
15 November 1940, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
8 July 1986, Dallas, Texas, USA
21 December 1937, New York City, New York, USA
12 January 1951, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, USA
29 September 1974, Alameda County, California, USA
25 December 1945, Fairmont, Minnesota, USA
13 June 1986, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
26 October 1978, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
10 September 1949, New York City, New York, USA
1 March 1966, New York City, New York, USA
June 11, 2013
This just in: The Newsroom stinks.
June 24, 2012
The biggest problem with The Newsroom - and it's one of many, many problems - is that its goals and its narrative strategies are in direct conflict with each other.
June 24, 2012
It all feels over-overwrought.
September 26, 2013
Frustration is the overwhelming feeling coming out of watching the entire first season of The Newsroom.
September 16, 2013
Ultimately, no one appears more deluded than Sorkin. His Will McAvoy is an insufferable blowhard, but the show spends most of its energy trying to convince us he's a saint.
June 24, 2012
Perhaps it was a foolish expectation on my part to hope that Sorkin might respond to his critics and improve his heretofore successful formula.
June 24, 2012
There's plenty of heart here - and some very sharp writing and acting, too.
June 24, 2012
Monstrously misconceived and incompetently executed, powered by a high-octane blend of arrogance and contempt, The Newsroom is an epochal failure, a program destined for television's all-time What Were They Thinking?
March 28, 2014
Speechifying, crusading characters and high drama are acceptable when the future of the free world is at risk; less so when it's the future of an 11pm cable news show.
June 24, 2012
The show offers a lot of great talking, but to whom does it wish to speak?