So after sleeping on it, I am now more irritated by the episode. Specifically the back-patting smugness about how much integrity they all have and how RIGHT their reporting style is. In this EXACT SAME episode, one of the moral, upstanding good guys refuses to retract a premature call because he doesn't want to get in…

I know blahblahblah giving millionaires money and all, but Bill And Ted's Kickstarted Escapade would still probably be worth it.

My problem with The Newsroom's optimism is that it has this sort of oppressively smug sameness to its characters. The good guys generally all feel like the exact same person dressed up in different wigs and clothes with a few token quirks. It's sort of "Wouldn't it be nice if everyone was like me?" When the characters…

He's beating himself up over the conversation that got to him enough to get him to fire Mac, his one true looooove.

Sloan's on-camera flub also felt a lot like a more public, messier version of her repeated inability to remember the specifics of what she was trying to say when she was trying to give Will a pep talk a few episode back, and he had to keep finishing her thoughts for her. In that episode it was a mildly irritating…

I can't tell if the show is intentionally highlighting the giant screaming problem with leaving the Will, Mac, Charlie team in charge of the show. The normal news cycle is tainted by Genoa fallout, as seen by the reaction to the stories Don's friend is willing to give them. There needs to be some shift at the top to…

That was a major disappointment after the previous episode. Will continues to be insufferable, too much time on the relationships, too much time rearranging narrative furniture.

So since I have no idea when/if we'll hit season 4 for discussion;
*SPOILERS*

I feel like we should only stop getting B5 and Farscape reviews for new TV shows if the new shows fit the genre. I didn't really like DS9! Where do I nerd out now?

I would kind of love it if it ends up that Daniels is being misled by an HBO insider whose kid tragically died after being fired from The Newsroom after being behind tweeting that topless Allison Pill photo.

NOTHING CAN STOP THE SMOOZE!

I can kind of understand why Justin exists—Morden wasn't going to convince Sheridan of crap, Sheridan already hated the guy. They needed somebody 'normal' Sheridan wasn't predisposed to immediately dismiss for negotiations. I almost think it's weirder because there are only three humans on Z'ha'dum. Bad there been ten…

The episode with "My shoes are too tight, ad I've forgotten how to dance" was always central to my view of Londo. He seemed like a guy who idealized his republic and believed in great things, only to be confronted by the petty and cruel reality. By the time we meet Londo, he's more or less given up and is pushing an…

And The Rock… Managed to so inextricably link music to action that the one time I heard the song in a non-B5 context, I had to sit and puzzle out for a minute why I kept having mental flashes of a guy being murdered in a cave.

Jim. You have no idea how sad I am that I instantly remembered that.

Sorry Glenn, Carol somehow became interesting last season and is now better than you.

After reading about this all day I  just watched the performance and am totally let down. The only reason it's so shocking is that Miley seemed to be trying really, really hard and failing at being rebellious and sexy. It's like the raunchy dancing equivalent of the acting in the end credits scene of the Buffy episode…

I'm honestly hoping the next episode covers at least some of what happens in the two months between the airing of Genoa and the interviews with the lawyers, because for all that they were willing to resign to atone for their sins this episode, they've all been running a cable news show for two months with egg dripping…

I would have been okay withDantana editing the interview to recreate the "Did Genoa happen?"/"It happened." exchange on-film, now that I think about it. It would have still been an ethical issue, but it would have been more understandable, would have made Maggie's failure to remember the initial exchange have weight,…

My guess is that the hair cutting is going to be her defiant act of reclaiming her life, marking the point where she rises out of her post-Africa moping.