At 50-plus minutes an episode, The Newsroom brings to mind Jeffrey Jones’s words from Amadeus: too many notes.
What’s immediately clear is the actress isn’t bound at all by genre.
It hasn’t been retooled exactly, but there’s a finessing of characters and a shifting of priorities, with most of the changes being for the better.
Understanding Screenwriting #98: To Rome with Love, Beasts of the Southern Wild, The Newsroom, & More
by Tom Stempel
The shaggy-dog element in the fourth story in To Rome with Love is its very casual surrealism.
Aaron Sorkin’s back with another dreamy bit of wish fulfillment.