10 Bad TV Shows With Great Opening Title Sequences
6. The Newsroom
The best thing you could say about Aaron Sorkin's The Newsroom is that its heart is in the right place. A witty and occasionally poignant show, but one that has an at best hazy idea of how an actual Newsroom works, and often handicaps its own storytelling with extremely preachy scripts.
But while it is very easy to watch the show and roll your eyes at Sorkins' politics, its much harder to watch the opening sequence without it putting a smile on your face. For all the accidental/intentional condescending and the preaching, the opening sequence is a stirring visual tribute to the golden age of the news, and the potential of the press as a force for good.
In a world that is dominated by hateful and cynical media, it is outright cathartic to re-watch this theme out of context of the show. It has the sort of soaring optimism that one doesn't see much in political or news-oriented shows nowadays, and unlike the show that follows it, it doesn't feel the need to shoehorn in awkward love triangles or 5 minute tirades to make the point stick.