Aaron Sorkin is a GOD!

Aaron Sorkin has a new series on HBO.  The Newsroom.  Thank the freaking universe!!  It’s been so long since Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip and even longer since The West Wing and Sports Night.  David PVRd the show without my even knowing that there was a new Sorkin show.  He presented it to me me like a Tiffany ring.  I almost wept.  It tasted like the best chocolate ever… in my ears.

Sorkin is BACK!

Afterward, I was bouncing on the couch.  “Can we download these scripts and just read them out loud… NAKED?”

It’s the intellectual/auditory equivalent to porn.  At least for me.  Well, for us.  We salivate as we get ready to watch.   We snuggle and sigh as we let the words rush over us.  I make yummy noises.

And you know what?  The Newsroom isn’t even his best show.  I hate to say it out loud, because I’m just so thrilled that there IS a new Sorkin show, but…  it’s a little… heavy-handed.  I’m okay with that though, because we seem to be the same kind of liberal-minded people, and I agree with what he’s writing, but it’s a little too “Rah!  Rah!”  For me.  But still, I’ll take what I can get.

We started re-watching Studio 60 the other night and Rissa turned to us and said “THIS IS SO GOOD!  Everything’s so fast!!!” An added bonus for Rissa was that Matthew Perry stars in the show and she LOVES Matthew Perry – she is addicted to Friends.  (I know, I know, we are TERRIBLE parents for letting her watch Friends.  But honestly, Friends is pretty freaking tame when you compare it to the sit-coms out there now.  Like The New Girl (totally hilarious, yet WAY too sexual for a tween) and How I Met Your Mother.  We had to ban HIMYM from Rissa for a bit, because we felt that her idolizing Barney Stinson at the age of 9 was inappropriate.  Now that she’s 12, she can watch once more, with the caveat that she cannot discuss any of the episodes about sex, binge drinking or general douche-baggery with her friends.  We only let her watch 2 episodes (44 minutes) of any show anyway.  Unless she’s watching something with us; that doesn’t count as her viewing minutes, because we’re ‘educating’ her.)

Oh and by the by… Aaron Sorkin wrote a part that William H. Macy played on Sports Night and Macy was drop-dead sexy.  Continually cast as the nice, milquetoast character, Macy was freaking brilliant as a seemingly ego-maniacal network fixer guy.  There are some scenes with William H. Macy and Felicity Huffman where I got wet watching them together.  I would rewind and watch him give her this ‘look,’ that was… I’m digressing.

William H. Macy as Sam Donovan on Sports Night

Sorkin’s writing is tasty, tasty, tasty.  It’s fast, it’s furious and it’s fan-freaking-tastic.  Even when it’s a little too “Rah, Rah” it’s still pretty much the best thing on television.