I will concede that Aaron Sorkin punked me last week. I felt like Mac from Always Sunny when I learned that Will's cellmate was an hallucination of his father. I had to learn this fact from reading an Atlantic Magazine article the next day. I also feel ashamed that, I only recently learned that Olivia Munn is dating Aaron Rodgers in order to conceal the fact that he is gay. If this were an Aaron Sorkin movie, this oversight would compel me to kill myself but only after exchanging snappy but robotic dialogue with my friends and name dropping various blue chip universities on the East Coast.
The Newsroom will always be second tier, the backup, the B team, the auxiliary, the role player to HBO's star programs. It was solid, it entertained but it will never be majestic and it will never prompt questions beyond "why does Olivia Munn waste her time with Aaron Rodgers?" Olivia, tell Aaron to come out of the closet. Olivia, hook up with me and then Clay Mathews and I can be Eskimo brothers.
Jokes aside, I will miss seeing the liberal version of Charleton Heston. Just as it is hard to question Moses on the NRA, we liberals got to enjoy George Washington and Joshua Chamberlain as one of our own. The show elicited a few laughs and it was an enjoyable bridge between Game of Thrones and Game of Thrones. We shall miss you Newsroom.