Mark Millar is the George Lucas of comic books, in that everything he does would be vastly improved by someone taking whatever premise and general plotline he sets up and then rewriting it.  In Lucas' case, that's for pacing and dialogue reasons.  In Millar's making his stuff not suck involves removing the idiotic…

I actually thought this was a weaker episode of the show.  The strong stuff was Mac telling off that interview subject for trying to be a D-lister.  The weak stuff was Maggie's bizarre dialogue with Jim, Mac's weird "I hate you" speech, and the extremely cliched reaction to a misogynist ("kick him in the nuts!").  The…

Wouldn't it have been great if the Maggie storyline had devolved into a crazy, 24-esque scenario in which Maggie was chased by lions across the savanna?

There are many authors - I'm thinking now of John Irving - whose WHOLE GAME is telling you what, but not how, something is going to happen, then surprising you with the details.  Shouting "Objection!  Foreshadowing!" is just forehead-smackingly wrongheaded.

I disagree.  I think the reason I can't find an intelligent TV reviewer who likes the show is that TV reviewers are steeped in postmodern nonsense like your view about why art is made, which is rooted, at some level, in the idea that moral ambiguity is always better than moral certainty and that having something to…

I agree that this show wears its attitude towards its critics on its sleeve…but since it's fundamentally a show about how the world ought to work vs. how it *does* work, and since the criticism is basically people being angry that Sorkin has a view about that they don't agree with, I don't really see that as a…

You know what the world needs?  An intelligent tv reviewer who likes this show.  *I* like this show.  It's smart and funny and the characters are endearing to me.  There's also a sense in which it would be sort of good if the venom directed at the show in the press had better weapons in its arsenal than "SOME…

I feel like everything I have seen Romney say on the Newsroom he really said during the campaign.  What's to complain about?

I'd love to see a Buffy movie, but it'd be a tricky beast, because the point of Buffy is always to juxtapose the experience of high-drama superheroics against the experience of being whatever particular age Buffy happens to be.  So what does a 35-year-old Buffy look like?  Does she have a husband and kids?  Does she…

Liberals hate themselves.  I bet the review likes to fall all over himself talking about how he never watches MSNBC.

Yes, AV Club, you are the coolest kid in the room.  You are.  You may have the scepter.  While you are enjoying possession of the damn thing, I will continue to enjoy the Newsroom, a show that has heart, wit, and gravitas, great actors, and a fantastic lead writer.  I hope very much that the cynical,…

Yes, AV Club, you are the coolest kid in the room.  You are.  You may have the scepter.  While you are enjoying possession of the damn thing, I will continue to enjoy the Newsroom, a show that has heart, wit, and gravitas, great actors, and a fantastic lead writer.  I hope very much that the cynical,…

Another review, another tedious set of attacks on a good show for being itself.  Honestly, I just don't get it.  This episode was entertaining; the characters are fun, I laughed, I was interested in the twists…it's not "realistic", particularly, but it's a perfectly good show.  Whatever, av club.

Another review, another tedious set of attacks on a good show for being itself.  Honestly, I just don't get it.  This episode was entertaining; the characters are fun, I laughed, I was interested in the twists…it's not "realistic", particularly, but it's a perfectly good show.  Whatever, av club.

Yeah, I continue to like the show.  I liked this episode.  It was a little weird about attacking women for liking to gossip about reality tv, but reality tv is pretty weird for being itself, so whatever.  The show is well-scripted and plays to its (liberal) audience well.  I continue to wonder what's behind the…

Yeah, I continue to like the show.  I liked this episode.  It was a little weird about attacking women for liking to gossip about reality tv, but reality tv is pretty weird for being itself, so whatever.  The show is well-scripted and plays to its (liberal) audience well.  I continue to wonder what's behind the…

I find your comment cumbersome.

I find your comment cumbersome.

Ha!  I have tickets to this now.  Thanks, AV Club!

Ha!  I have tickets to this now.  Thanks, AV Club!