So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, good night... Sorry to be cribbing from musicals, but it can't be helped as we close the books on the first sea...

Watching "The Newsroom" is sort of like putting on a slightly bad pair of glasses (the headaches included). Everything is off just enough that it's a ...

God has a big part in "The Blackout: Part 1," both as savior and political cudgel. But the Devil gets a lot more screen time, especially in the monstrous form of Casey Anthony. The maybe-murderer-mom becomes the catalyst for one of the most humorless, sour hours on "The Newsroom" thus far.

For a show that's ostensibly about the news, "The Newsroom" spends a hell of a lot of time focused on other things. If there was any episode that you might expect would veer away from this pattern, it would be "5/1," which is all about the killing of Osama bin Laden. Alas, Aaron Sorkin has other ideas.

It's become clear that, the less time is spent on its characters' personal lives, the better "The Newsroom" is. "Bullies" spends enough time on the ne...

"Amen" was, in many ways, a relative rebound from the horrors of "I'll Try To Fix You," but its treatment of MacKenzie was nothing less than ugly to witness.

In "I'll Try To Fix You," Aaron Sorkin decides to mostly take a break from the newsgathering part of "The Newsroom" and instead focus on the personal dramas of his characters. This proves to be a bit of a problem.

"The 112th Congress," the third episode of "The Newsroom," is alternately more annoying and, in certain spots, more entertaining than anything that has come before it.

I worried that I'd been too cynical and too hard on the show. But the second episode, "Newsnight 2.0," did not do much to bolster my hopes for "The Newsroom."

"The Newsroom" is not irredeemable. Sorkin is a frequently great writer. He's got a really, really good cast. It's foolish to write any of them off after one or two episodes. But, so far, I'm very worried.