It’s finale week with The Sorkin Series! Your team of Aaron Sorkin fanatics are back to discuss The Newsroom 1×10 “The Greater Fool”. It’s a slightly longer episode than usual, so we can pack in all our thoughts about the finale, and let you know our future plans for the show.

Show Notes:
– Announcements: Our next Sorkin venture will be…The West Wing!
– News Items: Margaret Judson (Tess) was a legitimate journalist, what?! Plus Old Spice interviews.
– Marama’s The Newsroom season 2 predictions.
– Episode discussion: 1×10 “The Greater Fool”
– Timeline confusion, we try to keep it all straight for you guys.
– Who’s Billy?
– Will has his Republican coming out party.
– Marama is on a mission to read Don Quixote.
– The redemption of the gossip columnist.
– Kristen is going to be fired. She’s not worried.
– Who likes Solomon? Not us.
– Tariq hates Don and Sloan together. And Don, just generally. Does anyone agree with him?
– Kristina’s least favourite plot-line, uh oh.
– Beautiful montages and music, thank you Sorkin.
– Sex and the City, represent.
– Somehow, Tariq manages to draw a Nicki Minaj-The Newsroom parallel.
– ERMAHGERD! The kiss was a late addition.
– So much Sloan love, can you blame us?
– Sorority Girl was Sorkin’s Chekhov’s Gun.
– We share our overall thoughts for the first season.
– Listener feedback: We read your comments and tweets, keep them coming.
– More announcements: We are switching to a biweekly/fortnightly schedule now The Newsroom is over.
– Plus, email/comment/tweet us your favourite quotes from the first two episodes of The West Wing and we will read some on our next show.

What did you think about this week’s podcast? Have any crazy theories for next week’s episode? Leave your questions and comments on the post below, send us an email, or find us on twitter!

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