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The Newsroom

1996 – 2005Show3 seasons · 32 episodesTV-MAEnded

ComedyDrama
75
GreatGoodWatch score
IMDb7.9Rotten Tomatoes65%100%
75
GreatGoodWatch score
IMDb7.9Rotten Tomatoes65%100%

Summary

The tumultuous TV newsroom world of overbearing regional news director George Findlay, who is solely motivated by casualty statistics which will improve his ratings.

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  • Party vibe
  • Background watch

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  • Makes you smirk.
  • Feels like real life.
  • Holds up a mirror.
  • Charms you.

Not for warmth, scares or uplift.

The whole fingerprint· the print and its 12 scales

At a glance

Tropes

Kent Brockman Newsin 149 titlesJim puts on an act of being a born-again Christian and gives a one-sided interview to an ultraconservative, homophobic MPP in exchange for that MPP not releasing video of Jim soliciting a prostitute.Chronic Backstabbing Disorderin 595 titlesIn Season 1, George deliberately gets Jim hooked on prescription drugs in order to force him out of his job as anchor so that his new co-host, Lindsay Ward, can take over the show.All 7 tropes

The Newsroom episodes

3 seasons · 32 episodes

  1. S1 E1 The Walking Shoe Incident, 8.1
  2. S1 E2 Dinner at Eight, 7.7
  3. S1 E3 Deeper, Deeper, 6.6
  4. S1 E4 The Kevorkian Joke, 8.0
  5. S1 E5 A Bad Day, 7.1
  6. S1 E6 Petty Tyranny, 8.3
  7. S1 E7 Dis 'n' Dat, 8.0
  8. S1 E8 Unity, 7.5
  9. S1 E9 Parking, 8.0
  10. S1 E10 Meltdown: Part 1, 7.8
  11. S1 E11 Meltdown: Part 2, 7.8
  12. S1 E12 Meltdown: Part 3, 7.3
  13. S1 E13 The Campaign, 9.0
  1. S2 E1 America, America, 7.6
  2. S2 E4 An Enormous Waste of Time, 7.0
  3. S2 E6 One of Us, 8.0
  4. S2 E8 The Fifty, 7.8
  5. S2 E12 Say Cheese, 7.0
  1. S3 E5 Baghdad Bound, 7.6

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