The Newsroom 1.6: Bullies
Will receives a death threat and a tabloid threat, which result in a security detail and new assignment for Jim and Maggie, respectively. Sloan pursues the latest on the Fukijima nuclear reactor and goes too far, on air. Will's insomnia drives him to his psychiatrist, who uncovers the origin of some of his behavior.
I really liked the whole Sloan storyline. I thought that was really well done and suspenseful. The on-air time was absolutely riveting. I loved Don after he understood she was outing the off-record comment, saying, "Go back to Japanese."
Two things I had a problem with:
- I found the argument between Will and Santorum's spokesman pretty unrealistic. Just in terms of how heated it got, on both sides. I get that it was supposed to show Will going over the line, but I thought it was unrealistic on the other side too.
- My biggest problem: Mac believes Will not only bought her an engagement ring in 2006 and has kept it to this day, but she believes that he KEEPS IT IN HIS DESK DRAWER AT WORK. (And, though I do believe Will would do something as wacky as buying the ring to make some kind of point, I do not believe that, simply knowing about the opposition research, he could have anticipated a conversation where Mac would accuse him of not having wanted to marry her, setting up the ring thing.)
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I thought the same thing about the ring. Even if he wanted to have it in the drawer, it should have been buried at the back under a whole pile of stuff. And if he's crafty enough to anticipate exactly how she'd react to the late night offer, he's certainly smart enough to think that it shouldn't be right where he'd have to supposedly look at it and reach past it every day for the last four years.
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