Well.... Except for the Maggie/Jim "romance" which had all the attraction of a dead skunk. Seriously, if they'd just not put that in, this show would have been significantly better. Sorkin does politics and dialog really well, but half the time his romance stuff absolute sucks, and really drags the shows down. Don/Sloan was MUCH better handled, but even the main Will/Mac one was pretty poor.
The "You do, hire her" is obviously a killer line but what I really love about Sorkin is that he doesn't let the audience know everything outright. Even the little tidbit with the reporter cutting off the voicemail just before we hear the last piece of Will's message. We know what it says, we don't need to hear it. Love that.
@@vecterit was this: after tonight, I thought you should know that I never stopped loving you. It was a really powerful and emotionally devastating hitting scene like always makes me tear up
+Lothar Scholz - I wish they do. But, I haven't seen any signs in the last several years in the US that the ideas of Orwell have made any dent in our goals or ideology. And, the current state of the political climate in the US has shamed us throughout the world.
I love that the first time she asked this question, Will was the one being sarcastic and cynical. This time, she's the one being bitingly sarcastic - you can hear it in her voice. But Will's response is nothing but sincerity.
Great scene! When Will insists she ask her idiot question again, she shows her courage and revisits the scene, even adopting the cynicism and scorn he visited on her at the lecture. And then Will acknowledges all that's passed between them by saying to her, Amen: I believe in you.
I love her character development her whole indoctrinaded worldview of "america best yeah" got shatered in the opening scene of the pilot episode and in the end she really want to be part of the movement that start to educate its audience again.
I never had watched the showed.. but I’ve seen the “what makes america the best country in the world” video over and over and over again. But after seeing this video it makes me want to watch the whole series!!!!
"You do" You give us hope that people can be informed of contemporary issues and develop an informed opinion to confront difficult situations. There are people out there who care about the state of their world and want better from the people ruining it.
Also, she was embarrassed beyond her years when Will went off on her in episode one and still she found a way through it. IOW - She was knocked down and got back up. It's the sign of great heroics in one so young.
Its 2022, and it’s rarely more than three or four months that has gone by since this first aired that I don’t come back to this clip. The music, the sound design, the message, it always gives me those good tingles (frisson? I think) every time. To shamelessly steal and paraphrase from Sorkin’s other major tv show, if you’ll allow, ‘God bless the people who brought us this show, God bless you the fans that keep it alive in your hearts and minds, and God bless Sorkin for making me to want to be a greater fool.’ Now, what’s next? 😉
Where would you prefer to live? No country is perfect but the USA is an attempt to be admired. They were founded on spirit of individual rights, and they live up them this day, sometimes they fall short but they always aspire to be better and learn from their mistake. They’re the most powerful country on earth but they don’t conquer it. They are the most diverse countries on earth yet they are one of the most patriotic. Human race is a story of progression, progression of the species and America has done much toward that goal. Disclaimer: I’m not American, my country abolished slavery first and did it by democratic vote not a bloody civil war. Then we tried to crush the slave trade of all other countries. We used our great power in the 1800s to try and (for the first time) remove slavery from human culture. And to a large degree it worked. So I love my country and am proud of it greatly 🇬🇧 But that doesn’t mean I can’t recodnise the wonder and nobility of such a young nation. God bless America 🇺🇸 Britain’s greatest (accidental) invention. Apart from leading and often forcing the world to abolish slavery.
@@jimmy2k4o UK was the root cause of the slave trade, British were the biggest beneficiaries of the slave trade. A bit hypocritical to claim credit in partially solving a problem they created. The colonial history is nothing to be proud of either. I concede though, that unlike the actions of democratic nations, most of these happened when a monarch was in absolute power and as such, the people cannot be blamed, and neither do I place the blame on British people.
I love how the whole season, and on the cover of the dvd, it shows him looking out at something that we cant see. Like he sees something we dont. And the last moment of the season it shows us what he is looking at, but to us it's a blurry image. We still dont see what he sees but we are getting closer.
Another Sorkin classic!!! He has a gift; a way of putting things that I wish I had. Love live the "greater fools" in all of us. This world would be a better place if there were more of them.
of course, these last four minutes are written as the perfect ending echo to the perfect first seven minute beginning scene of the series. A Sorkin perfection pairing, if you will... most definitely, absolute perfection.
the sad truth is he was right on his rant about america.... but america is too arrogant to notice the emperor is naked... let alone how to read Hans Christian Anderson....
@wings of a butterfly No. The emperor being Drumph. America used to be the most hated country in the middle east. Drumph is working hard and successfully at changing that to the world.
I think he was right about the first half of his rant... the part after 'sure used to be' not so much unfortunately... Lofty ideals which is great, rarely if ever lived up to sadly.
@@douglasthomashayden2566 And that's laudible, definitely better to have no question. I suppose I'd argue by what metrics he feels America used to be so great...
"You ruined my life." Well, I wouldn't say ruined. He does still have a multi-million dollar salary and a large condo with an excellent view of the midtown skyline (I think it's midtown. Don't know Manhattan that well). And even to the extent that his life was made less terrific it was his answer that did so rather than her question. Very nicely played by Daniels and Riley Voelkel. She shows that the fresh college graduate is taken aback at being challenged (again) by the big TV star but she doesn't overstate it and also shows her character's strength in her center.
You know where Sorkin thrives? The killer lines at the end, sure, but it’s also the throwaway lines, too. As he’s sprinting across the floor and someone shouts, “Good show tonight,” and he mutters a reply, “ I don’t care.” That kills me.
It’s the “okay” that gets me every time. She isn’t even fazed by it. Edit: Also, Jennifer's confident "A year early" at 0:24 is perfect. She's already exuding confidence in the face of Will, which works to her favour later. It's her second ever line in this episode and her arc already sees progression.
Also the intimidation of a powerful person who humiliated her nationally confronting her with a repeat of the most embarrasing moment of her life at an interview, but also the courage to stand her ground
Absolutely Perfect. Has there ever been a more perfect last 4 minutes of a television series season to perfectly meet the perfection of a first 4 1/2 minutes of television... perhaps the best the first minutes in television series history? - IMHO. only Sorkin...
Aaron Sorkin is the Shakespeare of our time. And this show (The Newsroom) will help to shift and educate, just a little bit, a lot of complacent people.
This show should be shown every semester in high school classrooms. Just to show what fairness and dignity look like. Im afraid they don't teach that anymore. We need to fix it, it's our responsibility.
What an amazing show that came to such an abrupt and unexpected end :( I really wish they someday resume it and give this show a proper ending that it deserves.
We neeed reporters like this! Committed to the TRUTH, no matter the political spectrum. Not playing for one side or the other, or playing us against each other.
수년 전 내가 대학생이던 시절, 처음 이 장면을 봤을 때의 감동을 기억합니다. 시작 지점에서 제시한 문제를 종료 지점에서 매듭짓는 이야기 구성(한국어로는 이를 '수미상관'이라 합니다.)에는 시대와 나라를 뛰어넘어 사람들의 마음을 뭉클하게 만드는 무언가가 있는 것 같습니다. 그것이 윌이나 맥켄지, 제나처럼 공공의 이익과 사회 정의를 위해 헌신하려는 사람들의 이야기라면 더더욱 그렇겠지요. 오래 전의 감동을 다시 느낄 수 있게 해주셔서 감사합니다.😊
I’ve been working with refugees and immigrants from Ukraine who have been in this country either a couple of years or in some cases, not even a couple of months. They want to go to work as soon as they legally can, they want to learn English, and we’re teaching them as fast as we can. They’re taking citizenship classes and learning everything they can about America. They are kind, beautiful people who left their families, their homes, and come here for a better life, and it’s just inspiring A F !!! If they were to ever to ask what makes America great? I would immediately pull out a mirror and say “you do!” I truly hope when that day comes that they understand exactly what it means. 🇺🇦♥️🇺🇸
The reason Aaron Sorkin shows are loved so much is because his scripts say what all of us would say if we were smarter and had a day or so to think of something to say. Not unlike us commenters ......except without the smarter thing.. #seewhatididthere ?
@@djpults No you missed the line. It's "So I'd learn how to duck" - he's telling Will that HE (Will) should learn how to duck, since he (Terry Crew's character) won't have to take a bullet.
Newsroom is one of the most underrated shows ever made. Proud of Aaron Sorkin
666 Not in our house
agree 100%!
Well.... Except for the Maggie/Jim "romance" which had all the attraction of a dead skunk. Seriously, if they'd just not put that in, this show would have been significantly better. Sorkin does politics and dialog really well, but half the time his romance stuff absolute sucks, and really drags the shows down. Don/Sloan was MUCH better handled, but even the main Will/Mac one was pretty poor.
Aaron Sorkin is the greatest writer of dialogue of the television era.
Fulfilledpotential: I wounder how Mr Sorkin will top this🤓
The "You do, hire her" is obviously a killer line but what I really love about Sorkin is that he doesn't let the audience know everything outright. Even the little tidbit with the reporter cutting off the voicemail just before we hear the last piece of Will's message. We know what it says, we don't need to hear it. Love that.
Yes! no hand-holding ... no explanation of the obvious ... just good TV
She didn't want to hear him saying it about another woman.
I didn't watch the show--what were the last parts of Will's message?
@@vecterit was this: after tonight, I thought you should know that I never stopped loving you. It was a really powerful and emotionally devastating hitting scene like always makes me tear up
"The farther a contry moves from the truth the more it will hate those who speak it."
+Sorio Kein Who can I attribute that quote to? It's really good.
DemonlordHatty George Orwell
Wise man.
+DemonlordHatty Yes thats why todays governments use his books now as instruction manuals.
+Lothar Scholz - I wish they do. But, I haven't seen any signs in the last several years in the US that the ideas of Orwell have made any dent in our goals or ideology. And, the current state of the political climate in the US has shamed us throughout the world.
I love that the first time she asked this question, Will was the one being sarcastic and cynical. This time, she's the one being bitingly sarcastic - you can hear it in her voice. But Will's response is nothing but sincerity.
But he says the truth in the opening and you can see how her worldview got shatered after his speech and in the end brings her to newsnight.
She should have said "Armenia."
@@Speedy2619 he says the truth here as well. And his speech at the beginning of the series is meaningless without this part.
There's nothing about what she says that is sarcastic.
.
@@BobSmith-dk8nw listen to her tone. She's mocking her original question because she's expecting an equally mocking response.
"You do." Aaron Sorkin is the genius!
Great scene! When Will insists she ask her idiot question again, she shows her courage and revisits the scene, even adopting the cynicism and scorn he visited on her at the lecture. And then Will acknowledges all that's passed between them by saying to her, Amen: I believe in you.
I love her character development her whole indoctrinaded worldview of "america best yeah" got shatered in the opening scene of the pilot episode and in the end she really want to be part of the movement that start to educate its audience again.
“I wouldn’t take a bullet for seventeen hundred a week.”
“Me neither pal. So I’d learn how to duck.”
Brilliant 😂
Terry has gotta go home to his girls Cagney and Lacey
That was actually the best line of the series 😅
"So I've learned how to duck."
I never had watched the showed.. but I’ve seen the “what makes america the best country in the world” video over and over and over again. But after seeing this video it makes me want to watch the whole series!!!!
Watch it..it only has 3 seasons and with no more than 10 eps..you'll love that show..i just finished the series last may..
It's been awhile since I've seen the show, but I honestly can't remember it being better than that 1 scene.
You should watch it.
Did you watch?!
Plz watch it, made my top ten shows of all time
"You do"
You give us hope that people can be informed of contemporary issues and develop an informed opinion to confront difficult situations. There are people out there who care about the state of their world and want better from the people ruining it.
Also, she was embarrassed beyond her years when Will went off on her in episode one and still she found a way through it. IOW - She was knocked down and got back up. It's the sign of great heroics in one so young.
This show deserved at least another 2 seasons.
I would have LOVED a reunion movie during the height of the Trump campaign!
@@skipchell2915 MAGA
One of the best written programs of all time. Well Done Aaron Sorkin. Please bring it back.
Make a petition pkease.
Not the same without Charlie Skinner
This was an absolutely brilliant bookend to the first season. Its just perfect. She knocks it out of the park.
Its 2022, and it’s rarely more than three or four months that has gone by since this first aired that I don’t come back to this clip. The music, the sound design, the message, it always gives me those good tingles (frisson? I think) every time. To shamelessly steal and paraphrase from Sorkin’s other major tv show, if you’ll allow, ‘God bless the people who brought us this show, God bless you the fans that keep it alive in your hearts and minds, and God bless Sorkin for making me to want to be a greater fool.’
Now, what’s next? 😉
America, a country that used to be one filled with Greater Fools, now we're just fools...
Self-hating Americans are so funny to me. Haha
George Weasley We have time to get back to it. Not much time
George Weasley loves a joke
Where would you prefer to live?
No country is perfect but the USA is an attempt to be admired.
They were founded on spirit of individual rights, and they live up them this day, sometimes they fall short but they always aspire to be better and learn from their mistake.
They’re the most powerful country on earth but they don’t conquer it. They are the most diverse countries on earth yet they are one of the most patriotic.
Human race is a story of progression, progression of the species and America has done much toward that goal.
Disclaimer: I’m not American, my country abolished slavery first and did it by democratic vote not a bloody civil war. Then we tried to crush the slave trade of all other countries. We used our great power in the 1800s to try and (for the first time) remove slavery from human culture. And to a large degree it worked. So I love my country and am proud of it greatly 🇬🇧
But that doesn’t mean I can’t recodnise the wonder and nobility of such a young nation.
God bless America 🇺🇸
Britain’s greatest (accidental) invention.
Apart from leading and often forcing the world to abolish slavery.
@@jimmy2k4o UK was the root cause of the slave trade, British were the biggest beneficiaries of the slave trade. A bit hypocritical to claim credit in partially solving a problem they created. The colonial history is nothing to be proud of either. I concede though, that unlike the actions of democratic nations, most of these happened when a monarch was in absolute power and as such, the people cannot be blamed, and neither do I place the blame on British people.
I love how the whole season, and on the cover of the dvd, it shows him looking out at something that we cant see. Like he sees something we dont. And the last moment of the season it shows us what he is looking at, but to us it's a blurry image. We still dont see what he sees but we are getting closer.
That young lady played that part beautiful, I like watching it
I was so proud of her for deleting that message. She did her first "right thing" in her career.
What was that email about?
@@LASR71 Wasn't email, it was the voicemail playing during the scene.
@@ryanshannon7703 tell me more! I'm binging these clips. What was the voice mail about? Who was that woman? 😂
I mean being a war correspondent was a right thing in a career too wouldn't you say?
@@coolcat5481 When was she a war correspondent?
Fucking love this show. So much!!! God I miss the Newsroom.
Another Sorkin classic!!! He has a gift; a way of putting things that I wish I had. Love live the "greater fools" in all of us. This world would be a better place if there were more of them.
I find myself watching this scene more and more.
It gives me hope.
I've watched this clip ten times at least. One of the best four minutes of TV you'll ever see. . . Thanks Aaron.
of course, these last four minutes are written as the perfect ending echo to the perfect first seven minute beginning scene of the series. A Sorkin perfection pairing, if you will... most definitely, absolute perfection.
and I just watched it again. . . I've lost count. Anybody with me?
Bring this show back!
the sad truth is he was right on his rant about america.... but america is too arrogant to notice the emperor is naked... let alone how to read Hans Christian Anderson....
deepdragon2 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@wings of a butterfly No. The emperor being Drumph. America used to be the most hated country in the middle east. Drumph is working hard and successfully at changing that to the world.
I think he was right about the first half of his rant... the part after 'sure used to be' not so much unfortunately... Lofty ideals which is great, rarely if ever lived up to sadly.
@@KCwalksabout Lofty ideals give us something to strive for...and measure our failures against.
@@douglasthomashayden2566 And that's laudible, definitely better to have no question. I suppose I'd argue by what metrics he feels America used to be so great...
Love it so much that I have to watch it over and over again.
"You ruined my life."
Well, I wouldn't say ruined. He does still have a multi-million dollar salary and a large condo with an excellent view of the midtown skyline (I think it's midtown. Don't know Manhattan that well). And even to the extent that his life was made less terrific it was his answer that did so rather than her question.
Very nicely played by Daniels and Riley Voelkel. She shows that the fresh college graduate is taken aback at being challenged (again) by the big TV star but she doesn't overstate it and also shows her character's strength in her center.
You know where Sorkin thrives? The killer lines at the end, sure, but it’s also the throwaway lines, too. As he’s sprinting across the floor and someone shouts, “Good show tonight,” and he mutters a reply, “ I don’t care.” That kills me.
It’s the “okay” that gets me every time. She isn’t even fazed by it.
Edit: Also, Jennifer's confident "A year early" at 0:24 is perfect. She's already exuding confidence in the face of Will, which works to her favour later. It's her second ever line in this episode and her arc already sees progression.
I think this was exceptional television. I absolutely loved this show.
Makes me cry every time.
I re-watch the entire series at least once per year. This and Firefly (Firefly more than once per year, truth be told).
We are the same
Ditto!
Keeping it all shiny!
👍
We once had to Write An essay on the thing we hate the most, I wrote a 700 words on how I hate fox for taking firefly from me
Mal - "Do you wanna run this ship?!"
Jane - "YES!"
Mal - "Well...you can't." 😂😂😂
Me too...and I also do the same with The West Wing
Best there ever was. Miss seeing great shows😢
Greatest show ever! Loved it...
"First step in solving a problem is recognizing there is one....."
Wills rant made her recognize the problem and thereby willing to help solve it.
Simply a fantastic show. Sorkin crushed this.
She is a brilliant communicator.
She agreed and responded well and didn't interrupt him.
I love her character.
Also the intimidation of a powerful person who humiliated her nationally confronting her with a repeat of the most embarrasing moment of her life at an interview, but also the courage to stand her ground
This was 0ne incredible show! Miss it!
Boy do we ever need this show back.
Amazing show
The news room with all this years it’s the best show ever
It is better to TELL THE TRUTH and be falsely accused of being a fool, than TELLING A LIE and be falsely called a wise person.
Absolutely Perfect.
Has there ever been a more perfect last 4 minutes of a television series season to perfectly meet the perfection of a first 4 1/2 minutes of television... perhaps the best the first minutes in television series history? - IMHO. only Sorkin...
Aaron Sorkin is the Shakespeare of our time. And this show (The Newsroom) will help to shift and educate, just a little bit, a lot of complacent people.
Aaron Sorkin's productions got me back into politics and news analysis/broadcasting, albeit in small ways for now. Thanks, Mr. Sorkin.
It’ll be sad if it only affects the people 100 years later while studying Sorkin 101...
ya'll deluded
I am afraid it didn't...
@@dianeghazaryan4773 ._.
This scene always gives me chills.
This show should be shown every semester in high school classrooms. Just to show what fairness and dignity look like. Im afraid they don't teach that anymore. We need to fix it, it's our responsibility.
That was the best show. I pretty much stopped watching TV after it ended.
Chills and Tears
my favorite part
This scene shows you goodness. Hope. Those really want to do well. It's powerful. Teary eye every time
What an amazing show that came to such an abrupt and unexpected end :( I really wish they someday resume it and give this show a proper ending that it deserves.
He is a treasure...Acting skills ..wow
We neeed reporters like this! Committed to the TRUTH, no matter the political spectrum. Not playing for one side or the other, or playing us against each other.
I miss this show.
This scene reminded me of Lionel Tribbi and Ainsley Hayes
수년 전 내가 대학생이던 시절, 처음 이 장면을 봤을 때의 감동을 기억합니다. 시작 지점에서 제시한 문제를 종료 지점에서 매듭짓는 이야기 구성(한국어로는 이를 '수미상관'이라 합니다.)에는 시대와 나라를 뛰어넘어 사람들의 마음을 뭉클하게 만드는 무언가가 있는 것 같습니다. 그것이 윌이나 맥켄지, 제나처럼 공공의 이익과 사회 정의를 위해 헌신하려는 사람들의 이야기라면 더더욱 그렇겠지요. 오래 전의 감동을 다시 느낄 수 있게 해주셔서 감사합니다.😊
I’ve been working with refugees and immigrants from Ukraine who have been in this country either a couple of years or in some cases, not even a couple of months. They want to go to work as soon as they legally can, they want to learn English, and we’re teaching them as fast as we can. They’re taking citizenship classes and learning everything they can about America. They are kind, beautiful people who left their families, their homes, and come here for a better life, and it’s just inspiring A F !!!
If they were to ever to ask what makes America great? I would immediately pull out a mirror and say “you do!”
I truly hope when that day comes that they understand exactly what it means. 🇺🇦♥️🇺🇸
That's how you give a season a happy ending...give the kid from Medill a job.
“Hire Her”
the notes are the same ones as the theme song, it's probably a composition for the show. i was looking for that song for a while, too.
I love this scene.
the parents of the girl being like "you seriously gonna do this, you seriously gonna try to get that job" or so on
I've watched all 3 seasons at least 3 times since it originally aired and it is better each time.
THE. BEST. SHOW.
The reason Aaron Sorkin shows are loved so much is because his scripts say what all of us would say if we were smarter and had a day or so to think of something to say. Not unlike us commenters ......except without the smarter thing..
#seewhatididthere ?
"1,700 a week plus dental"
"I wouldn't take a bullet for someone for 1,700 a week"
"Neither would I, so I suggest you learn how to duck."
Spoken by Donald's Secret Service detail... ;-P
@@igorschmidlapp6987 Yeah, I've got so much respect for the Secret Service.
@@djpults No you missed the line. It's "So I'd learn how to duck" - he's telling Will that HE (Will) should learn how to duck, since he (Terry Crew's character) won't have to take a bullet.
"I didn't take a position on guns, I took a position on lying. I came out against it."
. . .
This show is so inspiring and depressing all at the same time. Timeless....
One of the best shows ever like the west wing.. bring it back! We need more Will and Mac…
"You do."
"I wouldn't take a bullet for 17 hundred a week."
"Me neither pal so if I were you I'd learn how to duck."
Nope. "So I've learned how to duck."
@@n7ekg "so I'd learn how to duck"
It’s amazing show
I wouldn't take a bullet for 1700 a week.
Me neither pal!
LOL
Buddy mine this show is epic❤️
I always liked the writing on this show. To bad it didn't go longer.
The only song that comes extremely close to emulating the song on the season finale is High Lonesome by Caspian. You're welcome!
What's the closing music? It's sounds so serene.
Somebody tell me what the closing music is!
Any ideas where I can the piece of music used for the ending?
I need Sorkin to make another show
They better feed him those cookies again in the second season!
HIRE HER!!
Aaron Sorkin is our generation's Shakespeare.
During that last ride, I keep expecting them to get side swiped putting Will in hospital...
A show full of epic scenes, and painfully fringe scenes.
The composer is Alex Wurman, and it's an original piece of music that can be located on his website.
Well, the death threats were TRUE! Sorkin told the truth about the Kochs, and the show vanished. Tells you a LOT about who REALLY owns you.
How this this not the top comment here...
If HBO Max wanted me as a subscriber, they'd bring this show back to cover 2015-2020.
THIS IS HOW IT SHOULD GO --- BUT RARELY DOES.
does anyone knows what the tittle of instrumental played at the end of the clip? TIA
Admit this is not the first time you are watching this clip :)
Sorority Girl -> Riley Voelkel
I totally forgot Terry Crews was in this
I want to be a greater fool
I was promised 4 minutes FOUR! And I only got three and a half. I'm so angry right now.
what was that video she deleted there at the end?
So Jenna didn’t realize Mac was the lady that helped her get the mic to ask her question
Maybe mac told her to come see her ?
Me neither, pal.
I loved that scene when he said america is not the greatest. Its so true!! I would never live there. Thank god i live in Canada.
Were can I watch this movie?
For 1700-hundred a week I learned to duck😂
Wow.
Wondering what security guards make these days?
🤔🤔🤔🤔