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Jon Weisman
Breaking Bad – a calm episode for the series, but stil a strong and thought-provoking one.
Newsroom – mostly a mess. The relationship stuff is just a trainwreck. Most unnerving is the phony conceit that WIll is tiptoeing back into dating like a frightened squirrel – when the previous week’s episode showed him dating on a regular basis for months.
Jon Weisman
Political Animals – Almost turned it off in the first 15 minutes because of how awful it was, but Sigourney’s performance held me in. I ended up making it through the episode largely on the strength of her, and to a lesser extent Carla Gugino, though I wasn’t fans of the latter’s character. Haven’t ruled it out, but I don’t know if I’m going to bother with episode 2. Ciaran Hinds is hard to take as the improbably popular ex-president.
Anonymous
Thoroughly enjoyed tonight’s episope of Newsroom. Despite this show’s familiarity to ‘SportsNight’, i enjoy the tone and – so far – every episode’s topic. Sam Waterston’s GREAT in this series.
Anonymous
No Breaking Bad due to DISH dropping AMC. Might become issue when Mad Men returns. I might’ve seen enough of the BB world already.
Jon Weisman
AMC live-streaming season-opening episode of Breaking Bad for DIsh subscribers:
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2012/07/12/amid-dish-dispute-amc-to-live-stream-breaking-bad/
Anonymous
Thanks. That’s what the DISH folks told me when I called them to extort some free services in exchange. In DISH’s defense, they have comped me every single time I’ve called with a complaint.
Anonymous
That episode of “The Newsroom” lived down to my expectations.
HBO brought in Hope Davis to do that?
Anonymous
Longmire anyone?
Jon Weisman
I’ve fallen almost hopelessly behind on that since the second episode.
Anonymous
It’s the one I most closely follow since I’ve read all the books. So far, so good, but I’d like to see more depth.
Jon Weisman
That sounds about right.