Aaron Sorkin creating new HBO show based on reporters

We got you there - there is no future to this industry.

 

The "trolling a message board" industry, right?

 

Oh, that industry? Well, it thrives like no other.

 

I damn near woke my wife up laughing at this. Well done, sir. Or, in keeping with the thread, "Fucking awesome!"

 

I want to see the TV extension of this, where two political pundits face off, debate the finer points of a campaign, and end with one tellling his cohort, "Suck a fat one, shit-for-brains," to which the second pundit would reply, "Your mom sucked my fat one, jizz mopper."

 

Way to draft off my heat, 'Sote

 

Boy, are THOSE not Sorkin's people!

 

That's just it, isn't it, Ben? Every Sorkin show or movie depicts essentially the same people, just placed in different jobs. That's why West Wing worked and Studio 60 bombed. Earnest, fast-talking attractive young people in the White House worked. But earnest, fast-talking comedians who were never funny didn't.
Speaking for myself, newspaper work was often infuriating, but it was fun. Fun is not Sorkin's thing.

 

I like Sorkin, in small doses, which explains why the likes of Chenoweth fell madly in love with him -- for a while. The approach was/is ideal for The Social Network. Sports Night worked, until it got deadingly-repetitive. Even parts of Studio 60 worked, but they ran into the same issue.

 

Keyboard. Spit-take.

 

The doses of Sorkin were not small in The West Wing and that was fantastic. Not sure I saw Sports Night as repetitive. It didn't last long enough to be repetitive.

Studio 60 was flawed from the start, though I agree that it had its moments.

 

If somebody hates the way Magary wrote it, perhaps they can offer a better way to write it?