‘The Newsroom’ Final Season: Aaron Sorkin Talks Finale, ‘I Wanted The Series To End Looking Up Somehow’ [VIDEO]
Aaron Sorkin's political drama, The Newsroom, came to a close Sunday night.
On Sunday, HBO's YouTube Channel uploaded a video of Sorkin talking about The Newsroom's finale.
The final episode was called What Kind of Day Has It Been, which Sorkin has used previously as an episode title for his other shows. It was used as the title for the last episode of Season 1 of Sports Night, the title for the final episode of Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip and the title for The West Wing's Season 1 finale and now has been used for The Newsroom's final episode as well.
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Sorkin said the title, "Is a sort of literary code meaning, 'What can be said about events up until now?'"
He claimed he wanted to "remind all the characters about what it was they were feeling when they all got together in the first place."
He said he wanted to re-do the pilot, but "showing the scenes that we didn't see. Charlie [Sam Waterston] being the one who got them all together."
Will McAvoy [Jeff Daniels] spoke at Charlie's funeral. Sorkin said, "The reasons why Will delays his speech is because he feels like anything that he says is going to be reductive." Sorkin said delivering a speech at a funeral makes a person worry that they'll "reduce this person you love very much," by what is said in the speech. "That's what Will is afraid of," he said.
He concluded, "I wanted the series to end looking up somehow."
See what else Sorkin had to say about the finale in the video below.
