It doesn’t matter whether you agree with the character’s politics or not. Midway through his cruel, pessimistic speech, he leans into the past, and waxes nostalgic for the America he remembers. He then goes on to deliver a blistering, rapid fire takedown of the student’s question, firing off statistics and insults without pausing to breathe. It’s not the greatest country on earth,” Will says to the stunned crowd. Spurred on by the bickering of his fellow political panelists, and hallucinations of a woman from his past, Will McAvoy (Jeff Daniels) lets his frustration get the better of him and delivers a scathing response to a student’s question of why America is the greatest country on earth. While this monologue from the pilot certainly had the potential to lean that way, the writing is so sharp and the performance by Jeff Daniels is so impassioned, it’s impossible to not be swept up in it. Aaron Sorkin (who, rest assured, will make more than one appearance on this list) may draw criticisms for injecting too many of his own beliefs into his writing and veering into preachy-ness at times. Say what you will about the later seasons of The Newsroom, but the show begins masterfully. 15 "America is Not the Greatest Country" - The Newsroom
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Here are the 15 Greatest Monologues in TV History. We limited ourselves to just one monologue per show, because we didn’t want half of the entries to be from The West Wing.
Oftentimes, if a show had one great monologue, then it probably had several great monologues. As you can imagine, it was hard to narrow it down to just 15. We’ve put together a list honoring the best speeches and monologues in the history of television. The monologue can lay bare the motivations of the character, can strengthen a relationship, and sometimes, it can cement the theme of the entire series. One of the flashiest ways a writer can demonstrate their prowess is with a monologue. Every plot, every character arc, and every twist was at one point put down on paper by a talented writer.
Every show you’ve ever loved was concocted by a roomful of creatives bouncing ideas off each other. While film is considered a director’s medium, television has and always will belong to the writers.
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