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#610 - The Greater Fool (Newsroom Part 10) (Patreon)

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2025-04-01 22:31:10
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In the SEASON FINALE of our coverage of Aaron Sorkin's THE NEWSROOM, we find the show's many threads continuing, if not coalescing, in Episode 10 ("The Greater Fool"). We assess where the show has taken us so far, and assess the good (not much) and the bad (plenty).

"The End of Resistance History" by Charlotte E. Rosen - https://proteanmag.com/2025/01/20/the-end-of-resistance-history/

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Jeremy Hawkins

Love the opening anecdote. Its the horseshoe theory version of the Hollywood Elsewhere article you shared about the museum a long time ago. Also, Seattle has "The Museum of Pop Culture" and weirdly sounds better. The whole color room is stupid. Reminds me of all those dumb letterboxd lists based on colors

Michael Carroll

Other famous red shoes: The Red Shoes in the David Duchovny early 90s soft core Showtime series The Red Shoe Diaries.

josh heffernan

It’s like Sorkin wants Will (M), to be his father. His perfect vision of a republican to keep his radical centrist wild side in check

Blank

Are historical animatronics big in Canada? I could have sworn I saw one on a school trip to Quebec City that also talked about the plains of Abraham etc etc, though not dudes in hockey jerseys

Chasen Schneider

Good episode but honestly kind of shocked you don’t hate Sex and the City since you’ve mocked Hilary Clinton feminism ie capitalism cynically appropriating feminist language and Sex and the City is maybe the most Hilary Clinton feminism piece of media ever created.

Michael and Us
>>169696642

The show is alright, but I will say that Sex and the City 2 is one of the worst movies I've ever seen. -WS

Oliver Elliott

“Giant beautiful worlds with almost nothing in them.” Well, it is a museum about Canada.

Anthony Cabrera

God, that bit at the end with Will McAvoy rewatching that bit of him dressing down Sorority Girl and then having Sorority Girl come in to beg for an internship and restate her question to Will in order to demonstrate humility and get his approval reminds me of that bit in Studio 60 where Bradley Whitford barges into Amanda Peet’s office and kisses her and takes charge of her life and pregnancy in this display of rugged but intellectual masculine dominance and she’s so awe-struck. Both scenes are the same display of Sorkin having this fetish for male domination of women put into a state of submission except the men have to dominate them intellectually but the result is still total submission. It was the same thing with that scene between Will and Kathryn Hahn’s character with the gun and her being turned on by it. This is how he gets off.

Gabriel Flynn

I was expecting Will to say they had the cane from Citizen Kane

piranhaplant

Speaking of video games that deserve a museum exhibit, has anyone in Michael and Us nation ever heard of that Super Nintendo game where you play as Bill Clinton's cat, Socks? It never got released, but there are ROM versions of it available. It's called Socks the Cat Rocks the Hill, and some of the boss fights include Richard Nixon and Ross Perot. A future Twitch stream for Luke, perhaps?

Eric

On the News, only the point of view of someone who has been Sorority Girl is of any interest

Oliver Crane

Probably the best episode of the X-Files is essentially a hangout episode, with Mulder and Scully and Peter Boyle hanging out and exploring their feelings about death and seeing the future while a serial killer plot happens in the background. It’s also written by someone who thought the show was kind of dumb, it’s genuinely a beautiful episode of television.

Oliver Crane
>>169777919

Also if you’re still in LA would highly recommend the Museum of Jurassic Technology, it put me in a great mood.

Robin A

not sure how beloved it is but the Trek episode I had most in mind was "Data's Day", where the stakes of the A-plot are essentially "can Data perform the social functions necessary to participate in a wedding?" Anyways, I would add to my previous comment that a mix of high, medium, and low stakes makes those big episodes where the stakes are high hit much harder because we've gotten to know and like the characters in the quiet moments. Also, giving time for characters to react to and process big changes (for ex., "Family" after the "The Best of Both Worlds") also helps with investment and making things feel more real.

Michael

The Pope’s red shoes are pretty famous! Definitely prominent in several films - The Two Popes, the show The Young Pope, probably in Conclave, and I’m willing to bet they’re somewhere in Bill Maher’s Religulous - he can’t stand shit like that.

Evan

Can you increase the gain on your podcasts? They're significantly quieter than every other one I listen to regularly and it's somewhat annoying to have to max out my volume everywhere just for you guys (not that it's not worth it, of course 😉)