Very good episode! Writing is top notch, as always and the last ten or so minutes were heart pounding.
3 Reviews
Give Us The Camera
atjudkins19 September 2021
2.4 is ****
edwagreen5 August 2013
Warning: Spoilers
This episode really brought out the high quality of the show.
The story of what happened in Uganda shall tug at your heart. Marcia Gay Harden is extreme effective as the litigator. Her straight- talking no nonsense approach is a joy to watch on the screen. With it all, her character does show that she has a heart.
Is romance blossoming between the two reporters covering the Romney campaign?
That OWS member, a college teacher, feels humiliated when her interview with Will goes completely awry.
Anyone notice that Will had a subordinate role in this episode? What really went on in Pakistan? Did U.S. troops really use nerve gas to achieve its goals?
The story of what happened in Uganda shall tug at your heart. Marcia Gay Harden is extreme effective as the litigator. Her straight- talking no nonsense approach is a joy to watch on the screen. With it all, her character does show that she has a heart.
Is romance blossoming between the two reporters covering the Romney campaign?
That OWS member, a college teacher, feels humiliated when her interview with Will goes completely awry.
Anyone notice that Will had a subordinate role in this episode? What really went on in Pakistan? Did U.S. troops really use nerve gas to achieve its goals?
p Happy
talksallabout-426-5363456 August 2013
The Newsroom episode #14 is titled "Unintended Consequences." I'm titling the show "Slap-Happy" referring to the characters on screen as well as to how I, as a viewer, feel.
The problem with this show is that it can't make up its mind. What kind of show is it? A serious drama or a sit-com? You can't mix the two without having the viewers feel jerked around. And in this last episode, we see some characters totally changing their character. People don't change their personality from week to week.
We see a totally new Maggie in this episode. Her long blond hair is gone, and she is now a redhead with a spiky pixie cut. Her public meltdowns and scatter-brained proclivities are gone, and she's all no-nonsense steely. Perhaps a trip to Arica and an attack by bandits can do that for a person. (Or maybe Sorkin, the series creator, just got tired of the constant barrage of "Maggie's an idiot" comments in the press, and so he did a character transplant.) On a better show, this incident in Africa where a young child who Maggie befriended is killed as Maggie tries to help him escape from the bandits would be poignant; on this show it just seems out of place.
This is an except from the full review on my blogspot blog: Premium Cable Reviews
The problem with this show is that it can't make up its mind. What kind of show is it? A serious drama or a sit-com? You can't mix the two without having the viewers feel jerked around. And in this last episode, we see some characters totally changing their character. People don't change their personality from week to week.
We see a totally new Maggie in this episode. Her long blond hair is gone, and she is now a redhead with a spiky pixie cut. Her public meltdowns and scatter-brained proclivities are gone, and she's all no-nonsense steely. Perhaps a trip to Arica and an attack by bandits can do that for a person. (Or maybe Sorkin, the series creator, just got tired of the constant barrage of "Maggie's an idiot" comments in the press, and so he did a character transplant.) On a better show, this incident in Africa where a young child who Maggie befriended is killed as Maggie tries to help him escape from the bandits would be poignant; on this show it just seems out of place.
This is an except from the full review on my blogspot blog: Premium Cable Reviews
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