The New Yorker verpest voorpret voor The Newsroom

Al maanden val ik u op deze blog lastig met trailers en teasers voor de nieuwste serie van Aaron Sorkin (The West Wing, The Social Network). Volgens Emily Nussbaum van The New Yorker had ik dat niet hoeven doen.

Na de tweede aflevering van The Newsroom ‘gets it so bad so quickly‘ dat haar mond er open van valt. Dat is nog maar het begin, want twee alineas later trekt Nussbaum alle registers open:

Sorkin’s shows are the type that people who never watch TV are always claiming are better than anything else on TV. The shows’ air of defiant intellectual superiority is rarely backed up by what’s inside—all those Wagnerian rants, fingers poked in chests, palms slammed on desks, and so on. In fact, “The Newsroom” treats the audience as though we were extremely stupid. Characters describe events we’ve just witnessed. When a cast member gets a shtick (like an obsession with Bigfoot), he delivers it over and over. In episode four, there’s a flashback to episode three.

2 juli is de Nederlandse premiere van The Newsroom. Niet goed voor de voorpret dit, mevrouw Nussbaum!