If posed to Season 3 viewers, answering in the affirmative would be a difficult task. The shortest of the series, the new season of The Newsroom is streamlined to its purpose. Many of the personal elements -- criticized as soapy by some, while being hailed as humanizing by fans -- are relegated to C and D stories, to make way for the big issues Sorkin wants to tackle in his last round with the ACN news team. More importantly than perceptional influences, these choice issues are compelling and make the first three episodes a slow build to thrilling entertainment. The season premiere focuses on the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing and also establishes what appears to be the seasons main arc: a Glenn Greenwald/Edward Snowden parallel where Neal Sampat (Slumdog Millionaires Dev Patel) is contacted by an anonymous source looking to release thousands of classified government documents. If a man on the run from the government, the pending sale of a corporate news division, global warming scares and the ever-dwindling time remaining in an abbreviated six-episode final season arent enough to keep you on the edge of your seat, frankly, youre simply incapable of engaging with meaningful drama. But that is said from an idealists perspective. When The Newsroom began, Aaron Sorkin asked his viewers to do one thing: buy in. Leave cynicism at the door and join the crusade his characters were hellbent on pursuing.
Posted on: Thu, 27 Nov 2014 02:27:52 +0000