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.
Yes! Excellent point -- that was funny.
But when you've already seen Dan Rydell, Josh Lyman and Jed Bartlet in therapy, you know the chord change in the bridge without anyone calling it out to you.
SO TRUE. Even the cadence of the whole thing and the bantery style of the session is straight out of the Josh/Jed/Dan therapy.
But I learned, with this episode, that I need what happens during ACN's programs to be more realistic than that.
Conversely, I liked Sloan's whole storyline.
Yes, exactly -- the on-air stuff has to feel realistic or all the rest of it falls apart, IMO. Hers worked; his didn't. Sloan going off-script and talking to them in Japanese felt not too far from what, say, an Anderson Cooper might do if he got a little ticked off.
"Go back to Japanese."
Hee! Don had quite a roller-coaster ride there. Nice work, again, by Sadoski.
Yep, all that was a really nice piece for him and he killed it. I continue to like TS more and more.
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