424: The Newsroom

I Hate It But I Love It

Kat Angus and Jocelyn Geddie

Discussion, Comedy, Ihibili, Film, Tv & Film, Ihateitbutiloveit, Tv, Lovehatepodcast

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2025

⏱️ 111 minutes

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Summary

This week! It's another rare TV episode as we tackle all three seasons of Aaron Sorkin's The Newsroom. We discuss Sorkin's terrible history of writing for women, the worst episode of this TV show -- or any Sorkin TV show -- or any TV show??, and how awful Jim is. GET OUT OF HERE JIM.

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0:00.0	I hate it!
0:02.0	I hate it!
0:20.0	But I love it
0:22.4	I hi-bye, everybody
0:26.8	I hi-vi-li, one and all
0:28.3	Welcome to I hate it, but I love it.
0:29.8	I am Jocelyn Getty.
0:31.0	I am Kat Angus, and this is the podcast about all the pop culture you love and hate simultaneously.
0:35.7	Oh boy, y'all.
0:36.7	Oh, boy.
0:37.6	This week we have another TV episode.
0:39.8	We are talking about Aaron Sorkins, The Newsroom.
0:43.1	I think, and correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the worst received thing he's
0:49.8	ever done.
0:50.5	I think maybe even more than Studio 60.
0:53.1	Hmm.
0:54.0	I think, hmm, I think the hate of both is like, it's a different hate, but I feel like they're on
0:59.8	similar levels. I think maybe it's the fact that the newsroom lasted longer and there were
1:06.3	various scandals that kind of cropped up as a result of it. Like the press tour that the newsroom did before the first season was a disaster.
1:13.7	Right.
1:14.1	And then the final season is also a disaster.
1:17.4	And I think around that time, Aaron Sorkin was like, I'm not doing TV anymore.
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