The Newsroom’s Last Season

I love The Newsroom. I’m basically alone in this—everyone else seems to hate it—but Aaron Sorkin’s show about the people running a cable news network is better television than whatever everyone’s watching. Better than the shows people pretend to care about. Better than the ones people say you have to see.

HBO just announced there’s one more season coming, and then it’s finished.

I had to sit with that for a minute.

The cast is what gets to me. Olivia Munn as the correspondent on her environmental mission. Dev Patel as the neurotic Twitter guy convinced social media can save the world. Emily Mortimer as the producer—there’s something about her, all competence and quiet sex appeal, the kind of person who looks like she’s thinking about something far more interesting than what’s happening right in front of her. Jeff Daniels holding everything together as Will, the anchor everyone else is trying to live up to while simultaneously resenting.

What I want to know before this is all over: Do Will and Emily finally figure it out? Does the final season give us what we’ve been waiting for? Does Jeff Daniels get to beat the shit out of someone while completely blackout drunk? We get one more season to find out.

The third season starts in the fall. After that, it’s gone.