A few of my friends — okay, really just one, but I hate to name names — have had a lot of fun on Twitter slamming Aaron Sorkin’s new HBO series The Newsroom.
To be fair, said friend slams a lot of other shows as well, but since I happen to agree with most of those observations, I don’t take issue.
But when he repeatedly tweetslaps –and retweetslaps — The Newsroom?
I cannot stand idly by.
Now, even I will admit the pilot was an explosion of exposition and classic Sorkin sermons. But if we wrote off every series’ first episode for being exposition-heavy, the Harry Potter movies would have ended at Sorcerer’s Stone.
You have to establish characters before you can build relationships. That’s a given.
For those of you lucky enough to have stuck around for Sunday night’s episode of The Newsroom, your patience was rewarded. Fewer sermons. More focus on the relationships in the newsroom (which, if you’ve worked in one, do blow up like that from time to time). Even some cultural references to add to the fun. And did a few of you shed a tear at the ending?
I’ll take that bet.
And I’ll be DVRing The Newsroom this season. And next.
Who is that masked Longbottom?
It has been two years since Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part II was released in theatres, bringing the decade-long movie franchise to its satisfying conclusion. The ending evoked a lot of emotions from us all, one of the more surprising being —
Neville Longbottom is a hunk!
First and foremost, I like pretty things, and Matthew had become one. But as a geek whose own awkward period extends even into today, I was gratified to see how far he had come during the 10-year span…and gave his movie connections no small amount of the credit.
But it turns out the studio’s efforts were actually in the opposite direction.
Matthew Lewis was never the chubby, ear-sticking-out, buck-toothed character that we saw on screen. The wardrobe and makeup departments created Neville’s persona and ‘plopped it down’ — fat suit and all — upon Matthew’s more leading man frame. They even used extra-large shoes because that’s how JK Rowling described him in the her novels.
That’s why Neville was such a ‘boy toy’ surprise in the final film!
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