From IMDb: "A news anchor's life is stirred up when he's forced to work with a new team of colleagues". My first thoughts were that a show based on the media world, on HBO would be interesting the less. It even started so good that I wanted to rate it with 10 stars without even watching it. And by start, I mean Daniels's "breakdown" in the first 5 minutes. From there it went straight downhill... But let me explain what i mean.
First of all we are talking about a multi-billion dollar worth corporation with a network channel. As seen from this point almost not a single character is believable. I mean c'mon... A producer considered "the best damn producer" who acts like a drama queen, never stops mixing her personal life with her job, her right hand, a promising young guy who gets bossed around by nearly everyone, even though he is their boss, a super hot and sexy economist who refuses to work as an actual economist for 4 million dollars more because she is loyal to the "news"... I mean seriously...
The whole show is to me a high school drama parade, with a prime time news show as background. It may be well written, but it is more a romantic comedy to me than it is a drama set in the cruel and hard world of the media. Everyone is in love with everyone else and that gets more screen time than the actual processes involved in a "newsroom".
I am not an American so I can't tell if they focus on some political aspects/parties more than others, although I get a strong pro-Obama vibe but I'll leave that to people who know better.
To sum up I would say this is an easy to watch show, fun and entertaining, but not a "world of the media" dramatic series. It would be better off as a comedy.
First of all we are talking about a multi-billion dollar worth corporation with a network channel. As seen from this point almost not a single character is believable. I mean c'mon... A producer considered "the best damn producer" who acts like a drama queen, never stops mixing her personal life with her job, her right hand, a promising young guy who gets bossed around by nearly everyone, even though he is their boss, a super hot and sexy economist who refuses to work as an actual economist for 4 million dollars more because she is loyal to the "news"... I mean seriously...
The whole show is to me a high school drama parade, with a prime time news show as background. It may be well written, but it is more a romantic comedy to me than it is a drama set in the cruel and hard world of the media. Everyone is in love with everyone else and that gets more screen time than the actual processes involved in a "newsroom".
I am not an American so I can't tell if they focus on some political aspects/parties more than others, although I get a strong pro-Obama vibe but I'll leave that to people who know better.
To sum up I would say this is an easy to watch show, fun and entertaining, but not a "world of the media" dramatic series. It would be better off as a comedy.