I’m infatuated
with a TV show. It’s been a while. I mean, of course I watched Game of Thrones.
What self-respecting fantasy writer (or aspiring fantasy writer) hasn’t? And
it’s great entertainment, don’t get me wrong, but there’s no infatuation. I
just like it, a lot. But this new show – it’s infatuation, moving towards love.
I doubt very
much that you’ll be surprised when I tell you that the show is Aaron
Sorkin’s The Newsroom. I didn’t watch
much of The West Wing – no cable at the time and the Internet was not yet all
over streaming things like that – but the couple episodes I saw were enjoyable.
From a distance though, it seemed like a bit of a fairytale: centrist,
pragmatically progressive president making the decisions we wish the American
president had been making, and showing the heart we wish he’d been showing,
during the height of the Dubya debacle. In the absence of regular exposure to
the show, I just never developed an attachment. I never had a chance to
properly suspend disbelief.
