"The manager of a fast-food restaurant handles a crisis with a bombastic speech."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDk5wDBR3hA
This parody is as brilliant as Aaron Sorkin devises himself to be.
I think that his shows are amazing and say and represent useful things, but they are also deeply flawed and Sorkin is smart enough that theoretically they shouldn't be - it's just that he doesn't seem to look past his own conviction in his genius. I took a break from the West Wing after that episode with the 3 female policy interns who are derided as sorority girls who were only interested in clothing - like, why?
And then I stopped watching The Newsroom after the 1st episode of the 2nd season when everyone was like "what did you do to the pretty little blonde girl?" as though she couldn't make her own choices and needed to be protected by everyone around her.
I don't know, we need to be in a world where it is possible to be gracefully wrong.
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