Tarantino Loves This 2010s Drama So Much He Watched It 3 Times
And yes, this series definitely deserved it.
Quentin Tarantino regularly talks about the movies and TV shows he loves, for example, he named The Social Network and Dunkirk as the best projects of the 2010s. And the director is willing to talk endlessly about his favorite movies, which include both period dramas like There Will Be Blood and trashy B-movies.
In one of the interviews, the director harshly criticized the modern crime classic True Detective, calling it "boring," but at the same time he shared a series he liked so much that he watched it three times.
And that show is The Newsroom, created and written by Aaron Sorkin – the same man who wrote the screenplay for The Social Network, which Tarantino praised so highly. Quentin said:
“That was the only show that I literally watched three times. I would watch it at seven o’clock on Sunday, when the new one would come on. Then after it was over, I’d watch it all over again.”
What is The Newsroom About?
The series follows the work of the fictional television channel ACN, which is trying to stay at the top of the New York ratings. The plot centers on the evening news anchor Will McAvoy, who used to be the most recognizable person on TV.
However, over time, McAvoy has become an arrogant and extremely rude guy. After his old team leaves, Will is forced to work with a new one, led by his ex-girlfriend MacKenzie McHale.
The Newsroom Was One of the Rare Journalism TV Shows of the 2010s
The Newsroom, which ran on HBO from 2012 to 2014 and never became a hit in three seasons, was remembered only at the end of 2019, when it was time to sum up not only the year, but also the past decade.
It's not that everyone suddenly remembered the masterpiece that was underestimated at the time, on the contrary, the critics and viewers finally understood its phenomenon and importance: in the 2010s it was almost the only project about modern journalism, so it offered a rare opportunity to criticize the industry without naming anyone, but hiding the real persons behind the characters of the series.
A painstaking dissection of the life of a single newsroom at a major television network, the series is shown through the lens of real-life events that dominated news broadcasts in the 2010s. Sorkin's signature dialogue is impeccably written and the acting is superb, giving viewers one of the best journalism series of the 21st century.
Source: Vulture