cathylr As an addict to the news, I watched the first season with a great pleasure. However, as the criticts became a bit too demanding for season 2, Aaron Sorkin took a complete different turn, which I appreciated but did not quite expect. For season 3, he tried to finish the show in a proper way but was still under the pressure of the critics. So, overall, it seems to me that only season one reflect what the point of the series was: showing how hard the constant reporting of the news can be as it is always about reporting the information first, whichever the sources may be.

curiousmolar This show is Boring as hell.Since I agree with all the stuff the lead talk about in this show. That is the only reason to give this show 10 Rating.I didn't even watched it past first episode.I mean, I know America is not the greatest country on this planet so, what.I don't care about it.And Their is nothing new about this show.And everything is predictable for me.Hence, it is boring. I know since I am not the targeted audience for this show. That is why I will not give it one star rating.

Mike C I wanted to like this show, I really did. But I noticed that with each episode, it became more and more clear that Aaron Sorkin thinks his audience is either extremely liberal or extremely naive.The show is supposed to be about a news program trying to reinvent itself by focusing on "truth" as opposed to "ratings." Then it proceeds to bash Republicans and the Tea Party throughout entire first season.I'm neither a Democrat nor Republican. But while watching the show, I get a sense that Aaron Sorkin is engaging in a very sad attempt to brainwash me, which kinda kills it...-- UPDATE --I decided to watch Season 2 and it seemed to be far better, until it was revealed that the entire Season 2 was merely a sad attempt by Aaron Sorkin to blame Benghazi on a fictional event he created as opposed to Hillary Clinton's failures as SOS.*sigh*

Eugene Williams III For a few years, I've seen the opening scene from season 1, episode 1 showing up in my Facebook news feed every time someone was trying to justify a sociopolitical rant. I eventually got around to binge watching the first season while on a long train ride.The show started off seemingly a bit comedic with seriousness thrown in so that the show wasn't a one-hour comedy sketch every episode. I liked the character development. I did get tired of the monologues (oh, God, the monologues), forced interoffice romance between two of the characters, and the third wheel/love triangle interest, and one of the characters in the love triangle who was depicted as such a loser when he was a few notches past brilliant.The second season was better, albeit a bit darker, which gave me a better sense of really being in a newsroom that's dealing with major news items. There was less of interoffice romance, as that got broken off early in the season. However, there was the lingering loser character flaw that was written into one of the characters that felt almost like a back story was needed to flesh that out.I'm binge watching the third season and while the espionage plot seems interesting, I get the feeling the season will feel like Christmas came early: neatly wrapped up with a bow on top; everyone is happy in the end.Overall, I like the show. I loved the premise. I really, really appreciated the fact that they were depicting themselves as journalists with journalistic integrity, given our national journalistic atmosphere has let a bit of its integrity play second fiddle to bloggers and talking heads. Minus the monologues, the forced relationship tropes, and extremely complicated situations being handled with convenient threats (season 3 is heavy- handed with it), I recommend the series highly for viewing.