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A different pace to The Newsroom this season

Season 2 of The Newsroom may not open with the punch of Season 1, but things are just warming up.

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750617_TNR_EP_201_112612_MM_2007I’ve now seen the first two episodes of Season 2 of The Newsroom….

And while it’s enjoyable, it still feels like the season is warming up.

That’s because this season it isn’t about individual news cases each episode, but longer story arcs and flashbacks. So it has a different pace to the self-contained episodes that were driven by resolving each story before the hour was up. I remember the adrenalin of the team chasing the BP Oil Spill, or being torn about whether to report a story without a second source.

This time there’s a lot more that is left hanging, and I still don’t feel like I am fully averse as to the various arcs.

There’s a legal case facing the ACN News team, there’s the emergence of Occupy Wall Street, the Mitt Romney election campaign, a story involving US forces, major damage control for Maggie, a new producer with things to prove, and Will McAvoy loses face in something of a demotion.

But while its shape may differ, thankfully I’m still drawn in by the characters and their various dilemmas. Hard to say yet whether the new direction by Aaron Sorkin is an improvement or not.

Monday July 15 at 5.30pm (8.30pm Primetime) on Showcase.

8 Responses

  1. nevothirty, the foxtel movie channels are the best thing going for them. Shows like Mad Men, True Blood, Veep, Dexter, The Wire (all seasons repeated). plus many more. All high quality shows

  3. true fans of this show will boycott it on foxtel after they have moved it to showcase. I am not paying for their shitty movie channels, it will cheaper to just get the newsroom on dvd.

  4. Wish they’d stop reporting on actual cases a year or two after the fact, and have fictional cases. And hopefully we’ll have less slapstick than last season (i.e. women running into doors like three times in one episode… Really?)

  5. Can’t wait for this to return. I got excited last night thinking it was returning this arvo only to see this article and realise I had my weeks mixed up. I will be interested to see if SoHo has a box office weekend once the season finishes to meet the complaints of subscribers who were otherwise unaware the series had moved to a premium channel.

  6. I’m looking forward to this. I wonder if this approach is an example of television being made for ‘binge viewing’ – I’m a fan of the long story arc and the slow burn of narrative. Anyone else remember Murder One? A great series that followed one murder trial across the whole series.

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