"It's a person. A doctor pronounces her dead. Not the news."
Easily my favourite episode of the whole run. As someone whose elected representative was shot (and killed), it hits quite hard.
I remember watching this episode with my parents when it was first broadcast here in the UK - they were in floods of tears and I didn’t understand why, but seeing this and the first episode I stuck around to watch as much as I could.
Then, when I was 19 I watched the series again by myself. I saw this episode, and was in floods of tears myself. At the time I was in a dark place, very alone and depressed, and rewatching the show gave me something I connected with on such an intense level.
I went to work the next day, was having an awful day and became very overwhelmed. Fix You came on the radio and I couldn’t hold it back, ended up sitting outside the kitchen of this cafe trying to catch my breathe.
This show, man…
This show AND this song. *Fix You* came on on my headphones as I was leaving on a flight to be with family after my little sister was shot & killed. I was looking at the flooring lights as the safety announcement told us to watch them if the plane’s cabin lost lighting. The song was telling me that lights would guide me home.
I fucking lost it. I still do a little every time I hear it. I’m crying right now, and this all happened almost 6 years ago.
That’s a heart breaking story. I’m sorry for your loss—such empty words in contrast. What happened is just cruel and sickening. Wish you and your family strength and love to continue living with your sister’s spirit for the fullness of your lives.
I liked the show immediately but this was the scene that made me fall in love with it. Brilliant writing and acting, and the soundtrack was perfect.
FEET OF FUCKING STEEL!
Charlie barely speaks in this entire clip and yet still completely steals the show for me. The way his eyes widen when Will tells him he’s not leaving his chair just feels so genuine you feel excited for him. He feels like a fleshed out person we know and not an actor on TV. Sam Waterston is a legend.
Thanks a lot butthole, just ruined my morning cup of coffee with my tears. This was the one when I was like, Don is a good guy, I like him. This is one of the few that to me was most powerful. One of my other favorites with Don, is when they're on the plane and have to wait to tell anyone they that we got Bin-Laden. Then how and when Don tells the pilot they got him, I lose my shit every time. Like now while I'm writing this, I just got chills. One of my top ten shows.
No denigrating at all, BB is a great show. But for all its strengths, it deals with the emotional/relational side of the characters in a way that was often not as satisfying as The Newsroom. Two totally different types of shows, they don’t have to be the same.
But I don’t see that episode as mawkish at all, the story was gradually built up and raised the tension until it boiled over and emotions ran hot. In the end, the (main) characters did the right thing and were true to their convictions, it seems popular to think of that as too sentimental but I think it’s about as human as it can be, especially since it pulls from real life events that were shocking enough to hear about IRL.
Also really love that Don, who is also sometimes portrayed as the ‘old fashioned’ ratings loving guy, is the one with the integrity and stance for their reform at the deciding moment here.
This always makes me feel. I know exactly where I was when she was shot too! I fell in love with the opening scene! I wish I had followed it when it aired but rather late then never.
I guess I should watch the “20 hours in America” speech from the West Wing now too, since you already got me started today…
https://youtu.be/DBh8gMlJZM8?si=iuJlHbkAqYd-UoUP
Oh, this event... not the Newsroom, the shooting. I was living in Tuscon at the time... one of my best friends who I met when I worked in Dallas was moving to SF, and made Tuscon a stop to visit while driving out. Her hotel was about 2 blocks from that shopping center, and she hit the road just an hour before all of this happened... which was also a day before my birthday (or, as I was born overseas, nearly right at the moment I mark my birth)... It was such a surreal day.
This show is actually better than the newscrap we get daily on broadcast television. It’s how things used to be and should still be. Report what you know, when you know it, do not create your own narratives, or spin or worse yet conspiracies. Thank you Newsroom, let’s have another go ‘round!
1. It's easy to forget with Sorkin's dialogue that's he's also a master of silences. With good actors and directors you get moments like Will deciding. Charlie challenging him, staring him down. Mac scared and hopeful. Will torn. Brilliance.
2. Of course, the redemption of Don. Some showrunners spend seasons trying to redeem characters and never being able to do it. Sorkin does it in 2 lines.
3. Aaron had to fight to do these bits under a song. An executive told him she'd seen it done on televisions and HBO wasn't television. Glad he won that fight.
I just started watching this show on Thursday and am almost to season 3. This was one of the best scenes/sequences I’ve ever seen on a show. This whole show is chock full of them. Must’ve been so fun to shoot as one of the actors.
Watching anything, and I mean ANYTHING, on television NEVER brings me to tears.
I went to a speech years ago given by Senator Mark Kelly (husband of Gabby Giffords) at my university where he told the story of that day along with other remarkable things. That day, the level of which I revered both him and Gabby shot up by a factor of a thousand.
The moments when Joey makes the graphic showing the date of her death and then subsequently removing the dates when she is confirmed alive chills me to every bone in my body and I can’t keep tears from streaming down my cheeks. A powerful moment in the history of television
You should definitely watch the show, and I’m sure if you’re asking anyone else in this subreddit they’ll say the same.
FYI Gabby Giffords is a real person:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabby_Giffords
Across the seasons in general, outside of the s2/s3 plot lines for the season-long plots are, too!
I remember it being surreal watching the subplot in one episode with the Rutgers GSA student interview because I WAS a student there at that time of Tyler Clementi’s death.
(Btw, while Rutgers has a few LGBTQ+ student groups, it always made me facepalm that they said character was from the GSA because none were called the GSA like in the show, so it was such an odd continuity thing to me, lol)
I remember reading it was inspired by something—I meant more in the “that was a fictionalized thing based on a real newsroom screwup” compared to other content being taken straight from headlines 😅
Everyone else heard “you’re a fucking newsman” before hitting play right ?
Yep!!
I actually heard "That's exactly what i'll fucking tell her!" AND "It's a person, a doctor pronounces her dead, not the news" But yeah.... that too.
Yes!
Absolutely
Nope
Yes, indeedy!! ❤️
One HUNDRED percent correct.
Right?
That deadpan “OK but you’re back in 30” from Don puts it over the top.
I fell in love with Don at that moment
Don is without doubt my favorite character. What he has can’t be taught!
"It's a person. A doctor pronounces her dead. Not the news." Easily my favourite episode of the whole run. As someone whose elected representative was shot (and killed), it hits quite hard.
“…Just breathe regular.”
I remember watching this episode with my parents when it was first broadcast here in the UK - they were in floods of tears and I didn’t understand why, but seeing this and the first episode I stuck around to watch as much as I could. Then, when I was 19 I watched the series again by myself. I saw this episode, and was in floods of tears myself. At the time I was in a dark place, very alone and depressed, and rewatching the show gave me something I connected with on such an intense level. I went to work the next day, was having an awful day and became very overwhelmed. Fix You came on the radio and I couldn’t hold it back, ended up sitting outside the kitchen of this cafe trying to catch my breathe. This show, man…
This show AND this song. *Fix You* came on on my headphones as I was leaving on a flight to be with family after my little sister was shot & killed. I was looking at the flooring lights as the safety announcement told us to watch them if the plane’s cabin lost lighting. The song was telling me that lights would guide me home. I fucking lost it. I still do a little every time I hear it. I’m crying right now, and this all happened almost 6 years ago.
That’s a heart breaking story. I’m sorry for your loss—such empty words in contrast. What happened is just cruel and sickening. Wish you and your family strength and love to continue living with your sister’s spirit for the fullness of your lives.
Thank you. That’s very thoughtful of you. I find that the “ball in the box” description of grief is very apt. Hearing that song is a good example.
I’m sorry for your loss, that’s heartbreaking. I hope through the sadness you take comfort from this song. ❤️
😔 I'm so very very sorry for your loss.
Thanks. I guess all of that was beside the point. I was just trying to underscore the feeling behind both the moment and the music.
The writing, the performances, the storytelling… Chills, literal chills
Every. Damn. Time.
I wish I could watch this series again for the first time.
I liked the show immediately but this was the scene that made me fall in love with it. Brilliant writing and acting, and the soundtrack was perfect. FEET OF FUCKING STEEL!
Charlie barely speaks in this entire clip and yet still completely steals the show for me. The way his eyes widen when Will tells him he’s not leaving his chair just feels so genuine you feel excited for him. He feels like a fleshed out person we know and not an actor on TV. Sam Waterston is a legend.
Thanks a lot butthole, just ruined my morning cup of coffee with my tears. This was the one when I was like, Don is a good guy, I like him. This is one of the few that to me was most powerful. One of my other favorites with Don, is when they're on the plane and have to wait to tell anyone they that we got Bin-Laden. Then how and when Don tells the pilot they got him, I lose my shit every time. Like now while I'm writing this, I just got chills. One of my top ten shows.
💯 with you on all of this!!!!
That's a good episode. Don's realisation on the plane is what makes it great.
This was when I fell in love with this show.
One of the best scenes in TV history. Breaking Bad never had a scene that emotionally hit this hard.
Oof, please. It’s good — a bit mawkish, but good — so there’s no reason to denigrate another show.
No denigrating at all, BB is a great show. But for all its strengths, it deals with the emotional/relational side of the characters in a way that was often not as satisfying as The Newsroom. Two totally different types of shows, they don’t have to be the same. But I don’t see that episode as mawkish at all, the story was gradually built up and raised the tension until it boiled over and emotions ran hot. In the end, the (main) characters did the right thing and were true to their convictions, it seems popular to think of that as too sentimental but I think it’s about as human as it can be, especially since it pulls from real life events that were shocking enough to hear about IRL.
Also really love that Don, who is also sometimes portrayed as the ‘old fashioned’ ratings loving guy, is the one with the integrity and stance for their reform at the deciding moment here.
fuck imma do a rewatch after doing one 2 months ago arnt i
This is what is happening to me right now
This always makes me feel. I know exactly where I was when she was shot too! I fell in love with the opening scene! I wish I had followed it when it aired but rather late then never.
Incredible show. I love it so much. If you value truth and integrity, it is an example of what the news should be.
I guess I should watch the “20 hours in America” speech from the West Wing now too, since you already got me started today… https://youtu.be/DBh8gMlJZM8?si=iuJlHbkAqYd-UoUP
That's exactly what I'll fucking tell her. I'm not fucking around, Charlie! FEET OF FUCKING STEEL! Probably my favorite exchange in the show
Oh, this event... not the Newsroom, the shooting. I was living in Tuscon at the time... one of my best friends who I met when I worked in Dallas was moving to SF, and made Tuscon a stop to visit while driving out. Her hotel was about 2 blocks from that shopping center, and she hit the road just an hour before all of this happened... which was also a day before my birthday (or, as I was born overseas, nearly right at the moment I mark my birth)... It was such a surreal day.
I knew what scene it was just from the thumbnail. And I’ve got goosebumps.
"It's a person! A doctor declares them dead, not the news" 👌👏👏👏
I’ve seen this episode four times, and cry buckets each time. Hands down one of my favorites.
This show is actually better than the newscrap we get daily on broadcast television. It’s how things used to be and should still be. Report what you know, when you know it, do not create your own narratives, or spin or worse yet conspiracies. Thank you Newsroom, let’s have another go ‘round!
FEET OF FUCKING STEEL! (That IS what he says right?! Lol)
Yeah
Holy shit I’m due for a rewatch!!!
Why are my eyes leaking so hard right now?
Time for a rewatch.
1. It's easy to forget with Sorkin's dialogue that's he's also a master of silences. With good actors and directors you get moments like Will deciding. Charlie challenging him, staring him down. Mac scared and hopeful. Will torn. Brilliance. 2. Of course, the redemption of Don. Some showrunners spend seasons trying to redeem characters and never being able to do it. Sorkin does it in 2 lines. 3. Aaron had to fight to do these bits under a song. An executive told him she'd seen it done on televisions and HBO wasn't television. Glad he won that fight.
One if the best moments in the show. Never ceases to make my eyes swell everytime. Aaron Sorkin and team are geniuses for writing this sequence.
I’d like it better without the intensely played music to pipe in extra emotion here but it is a good scene and media critique.
This montage hits me right in the feels every single time.
Can someone explain why Joey felt bad?
Probably the best use of a song in a TV show ever.
Yup…. Every damn time
"I'll Try to Fix You" is always one of my favorite episode.
Watching this bit of history hits me differently ever since I met Gabby Giffords in person a few years ago.
I just started watching this show on Thursday and am almost to season 3. This was one of the best scenes/sequences I’ve ever seen on a show. This whole show is chock full of them. Must’ve been so fun to shoot as one of the actors.
Kudos to The Fray because this song knows exactly how to punch me square in the feels. Edit: it’s Coldplay, I’m stupid.
Coldplay, my bro.
Watching anything, and I mean ANYTHING, on television NEVER brings me to tears. I went to a speech years ago given by Senator Mark Kelly (husband of Gabby Giffords) at my university where he told the story of that day along with other remarkable things. That day, the level of which I revered both him and Gabby shot up by a factor of a thousand. The moments when Joey makes the graphic showing the date of her death and then subsequently removing the dates when she is confirmed alive chills me to every bone in my body and I can’t keep tears from streaming down my cheeks. A powerful moment in the history of television
Ive never seen this show but all the clips i see tempt me more and more.
You should definitely watch the show, and I’m sure if you’re asking anyone else in this subreddit they’ll say the same. FYI Gabby Giffords is a real person: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabby_Giffords
Wow i did not know that. Thanks for the info!
Cool beans my friend!
All of the stories in season one were real actual events :)
Across the seasons in general, outside of the s2/s3 plot lines for the season-long plots are, too! I remember it being surreal watching the subplot in one episode with the Rutgers GSA student interview because I WAS a student there at that time of Tyler Clementi’s death. (Btw, while Rutgers has a few LGBTQ+ student groups, it always made me facepalm that they said character was from the GSA because none were called the GSA like in the show, so it was such an odd continuity thing to me, lol)
There actually was a Genoa like f-up apparently but s2 fictionalized it a bit
I remember reading it was inspired by something—I meant more in the “that was a fictionalized thing based on a real newsroom screwup” compared to other content being taken straight from headlines 😅