Newsroom season finale: love it or hate it? (no spoilers)

[DebJ]

We thought it was fantastic. What did you think?

This reviewer is way off base. I love the comments he got though.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/09/15/the-newsroom-season-finale-was-incredibly-disappointing.html

[dixiegrrrrl]

1. Damn...did not realize it was the final...

It is one of the shows I like to watch a couple of times, just to catch all that is going on.

Very relieved, actually, that the McAcoy/Mac thing is resolved..I think they dragged it out as much as they could.

[SoCalDem]

2. What pissed me off was that it was ep #14..and shown SO out or sequence

I was irritated that I had missed #14..and then they tossed that in as the finale..

When the DVD set comes out, will they renumber it?

Why bother to number the episodes if they don;t plan to air them in order?

I once thought I had missed ep 1 & 2 of a new show..and almost decided to not bother to record it at all..or watch it.. and then I caught a re-re-re run of that episode & it was labeled "series premiere episode #3)..

It's hard enough to follow shows these days without ambiguous numbering..

I miss the good old days of 39 weeks straight...in order and no pre-emptions.. then summer re-runs of important episodes to catch up.. or the even better way that some channels just have marathons start-to finish of the series so you CAN get caught up & start a show a season or two into it..

[Silver Gaia]

3. I'm confused... there were only 9 episodes this season.

This was Part 2 of a 2-parter called "Election Night." Where does #14 come in?

[SoCalDem]

5. In the guide section that describes the episode (on Dish) it has #14

In my DVR they are listed as follows:

episode #, and original air date..and those episode numbers are not the same as wikipedia lists..

I will probably just erase them all and wait until the full season marathon showing before the next season starts..

That's how I got caught up on the first 3 seasons of Dexter ( I only started watching in Season 4, so the 4-hr blocks of Dexter in order from episode 1 allowed me to catch up & to understand a lot of what I had missed)

[Silver Gaia]

7. Oh, OK.

That's got to be the fault of whoever is programming that stuff for Dish, then. There weren't any numbers like that on what I saw. What Wikipedia is showing is correct. Sorry they confused it all for you!

[MuseRider]

15. I am so with you.

Why oh why did they have to start screwing with the dates and times of shows. The big shows that don't start until the next year, or used to I don't know. I choose not to watch that stuff now until I have recorded it because it just makes me mad to miss something because for one night they changed a show to bring you into another "new" or doing poorly show after. It used to be a no brainer to figure out how to find out what you missed. Grrrrr.

[Silver Gaia]

4. We loved it!

It was nice to have something end the season on such a positive note and not leave us with some huge cliffhanger. That worries me in a way, too, though... have they renewed this show yet? I sure hope that wasn't a SERIES finale.

ETA: Whew...just checked to be sure, and it was renewed for Season 3. Yay!

http://www.deadline.com/2013/09/hbo-renews-newsroom-season-3-jeff-daniels/

[Iggo]

6. That sure looked like a great way to end it, if that was gonna be the end.

It kinda caught me off-guard. I had to rewind it to make sure that last click didn't mean it was the end of the whole shebang.

Could've gone either way: Full Circle or New Beginning.

Nice hedging by the writers.

[trumad]

8. Good season---Olivia Munn is not only Hot...

but she's a riot on the show.

[davidpdx]

9. She is indeed

And I wouldn't want to run into her in a dark alley. She'd kick my butt (I'd probably enjoy it too).

[Iggo]

13. "Oh, come on!!!"

That was great.

[davidpdx]

10. I loved it with a few minor exceptions

The part where Mac was obsessing about her Wikipedia page could have been left out. I felt the same way about Sloan and the book until she went in the control room and kissed Don. Will's fumbling proposal was so cute. Charlie is so funny when he cusses.

[trumad]

11. I'm not a big Maggie fan.

[davidpdx]

12. I was talking about MacKensie and Wikipedia

I actually like Maggie. No, wait...I love Maggie.

[Auggie]

14. Aaron Sorkin certainly tied-up the loose ends ...

little bit of a cliff hanger wouldn't have hurt.

It's still one heck of a great show and Sorkin is one the top writers/producers in the biz.

Count me in as an Olivia Munn fan.

[davidpdx]

16. Well there is still the issue of the call of the CD in Michigan

and Jim accidentally calling it for the candidate who was projected to lose. Remember Charlie said the first one to screw up has to apply for a job at the sanitation department.