Not to mention the douchey, lecherous, child-beating priest from Gracepoint.

While I like that the Vulture guy kept more of a level-head and an open-mind, I kind of feel like he took the cheap way out in saying he "expects this of Sorkin" and "doesn't care enough to get offended."

— Regarding people ignoring anonymous allegations. While there is some truth to that, note that it's different within the context of celebrities. People expect false allegations to be levied against celebs and thus take everything with a grain of salt.

If her problem with a show about a TV news outlet was that the show featured a reporter having a conversation with the subject of a story…she clearly had no business being there in the first place.

A) That sounds awfully like our legal system. So if you have a problem with that logic, you have a problem with more than just an episode of The Newsroom.

Yeah, none of that happened.

I assumed the same thing…

I thought the discussion put a very effective spin on Blackstone's formulation.

— It's bad enough that you're effectively letting your personal disagreement with what you perceive to be Aaron Sorkin's socio-political belief color your judgment of this show. This is a show designed to tackle controversial, polarizing issues - and designed to ignite discussion and contemplation after the fact. …

The big reveal for me was that the "next week" title card isn't pre-taped. I have no earthly idea why it wouldn't be. How is that bit, in any way, enhanced by him doing a live narration?

Doesn't always work that way. Hugh Laurie never won for House…they even gave KYLE CHANDLER the Emmy (over both Laurie and Hamm) during Cranston's off-year*.

— "Sloan was demoted this episode to Don and Charlie’s helper. Fun."

I actually turned this off midway through.

"And the idea that Pete will get the first pick on Emma’s waiver wire
because no other guy knows how attractive she’s going to be after the
surgery is one of the better instances of the show shoehorning football
terminology into the minutiae of everyday life."

Interesting - the ratings aren't particularly good (no better than the other TBS comedies), and I can't imagine it's cheap to broadcast a Seth MacFarlane show at this point.

"I’m still not entirely clear on how the Taliban knew to follow the
American drone, or how they could track it. Is that the Pakistani
government helping Haqqani?"

You mean the very face that has won her Emmys and contributed to her reputation as TV's finest actress?

I didn't address the "female problem" because it wasn't relevant to the show's status as a "must-see" series back in season one. It was something critics noticed, but I don't recall fans going, "Bro - check out this show The Newsroom - it turns women into cartoon characters and is thus so rad."

The things that bothered critics (obnoxious political bias, lame hindsight gimmick in which the saintly News Night crew avoided every, often reasonable mistake made by the actual media) were the things that, interestingly enough, seemed to most captivate viewers (see: the opening monologue in the pilot and the…

Let's not forget that Neal bought his "air gapped" computer (by the way - he clearly ended up going to Best Buy…so why refer to it as some sort of special, unconnected computer when he could just say he needed to buy a new computer) using either his boss' corporate card or his boss' personal card (probably the…