Season 3 of “The Newsroom” will be coming to an end, but it seems that the drama is being taken out of the show for a hot second.
A writer on Aaron Sorkin’s HBO show tweeted her disapproval for the most recent episode of season 3, titled “Oh Shenandoah,” and the show’s creator expressed that he’s not pleased with how things have gone down after episode 5 was aired last night, according to the U.K.'s The Daily Mail.
As @emilynussbaum points out in her review of tonight's ep, you can't criticize Sorkin without turning into one of his characters.
— Alena Smith (@internetalena) December 8, 2014
So when I tried to argue, in the writers' room, that we maybe skip the storyline where a rape victim gets interrogated by a random man... — Alena Smith (@internetalena) December 8, 2014
I ended up getting kicked out of the room and screamed at just like Hallie would have for a "bad tweet."
— Alena Smith (@internetalena) December 8, 2014
I found the experience quite boring. I wanted to fight with Aaron about the NSA, not gender. I didn't like getting cast in his outdated role — Alena Smith (@internetalena) December 8, 2014
Shortly after the writer’s tweets were made and circulating the Internet like crazy, Aaron Sorkin released a statement to HuffPost Entertainment regarding the episode and how he feels about his writer’s recent posts, despite her “enthusiastic support” regarding the pages for the episode.
Smith reportedly had “strong objections” to the story of the season 3 episode, but there was a “healthy back and forth.”
“After a while I needed to move on (there's a clock ticking) but Alena wasn't ready to do that yet. I gave her more time but then I really needed to move on. Alena still wouldn't let me do that so I excused her from the room,” stated Sorkin.
Sorkin added, “I was surprised to be told this morning that Alena had tweeted out her unhappiness with the story. But I was even more surprised that she had so casually violated the most important rule of working in a writers room which is confidentiality.”
He continued, “It was a room in which people felt safe enough to discuss private and intimate details of their lives in the hope of bringing dimension to stories that were being pitched. That's what happens in writers rooms and while ours was the first one Alena ever worked in, the importance of privacy was made clear to everyone on our first day of work and was reinforced constantly. I'm saddened that she's broken that trust.”
