The Social Reckoning — Did Aaron Sorkin Lose the Social Network Magic?

Sixteen years after The Social Network, Aaron Sorkin returns to the world of Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg with The Social Reckoning — and The Movie Group Chat could not be more divided.

Jeremy liked it. Chet hated it. Brick thought it failed to make him care. Justin thinks the movie occasionally finds Sorkin’s magic but never consistently captures the rhythm and urgency audiences expect from his best work.

The guys debate whether The Social Reckoning should even be considered a true sequel, what’s missing without David Fincher’s direction, and whether Aaron Sorkin’s famous dialogue still has the musicality of The West Wing, The Newsroom, Moneyball and The Social Network. Pasted text

They also get into Jeremy Strong’s very different interpretation of Mark Zuckerberg, Jeremy Allen White’s ability to handle Sorkin dialogue, the casting of Mikey Madison, and why Bill Burr and Betty Gilpin may be two of the actors who best understand Sorkin’s rhythm. Pasted text Pasted text

But the biggest debate is about the movie’s message: what is the actual reckoning? Is the movie showing us consequences, or simply reminding us of things we already know about social media?

And after more than an hour debating Facebook’s effect on society, the episode ends with the most ironic Movie Group Chat advice possible:

Delete social media — but follow and subscribe to us first. Pasted text

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