The ironies abound, but one of the central ironies is this: The lead character on this show, news anchor Will McAvoy Jeff Danielss), bemoans the fact that much of the public discourse has become an unsubtle shoutfest, yet "The Newsroom" displays all the subtlety of a jackhammer set to maximum or a terrier on speed.
Opulent baroque-print clothing is still huge, and this ode to the champions of the unsubtle, Versace, has become one of the biggest rap songs of 2013.
"I danced Spartacus and I was typecast," he said, referring to the eponymous hero of the 1968 ballet by Yuri Grigorovich that has become a byword for male virtuosity of a particularly unsubtle kind.
To argue about whether the drama had become arch or unsubtle?
He's still an unsubtle car crash of ego and obliviousness, but he has also become an office relic in a more fast-paced, socially conscious world.
The changes made eighteen years later may have been largely for the better and have certainly become standard in modern performance, but how fascinating it is to be confronted with the composer's first thoughts on the matter - raw, rough, and virile, unsubtle in colouring and emotion but ablaze with hotheaded energy.
(There has been unsubtle product placement. The heroine — a scholarship student at a boarding school — sleeps with a box of O.B. tampons on her bedside table).
The play has an unsubtle agenda, and Mr. Gurney carries it out cannily, but he is obviously pulling the marionette strings.
He has made unsubtle allusions to her mental health, demeaned her with names like "drama queen" and made suggestions of welfare rorting.
So, the mushroom stems become an unsubtle soup, a fragrant broth studded with irregularly shaped dice, nearly a call of the wild.
The Catalans coach, Kevin Walters, has made an unsubtle attempt to influence Steve Ganson, who will referee his team's next play-off match at Huddersfield on Friday.
