Sloan subs for Elliot during the Japanese nuclear crisis following the March 2011 earthquake, but her harsh questioning of a Tokyo power-company representative could damage her credibility.Free Download Video The Newsroom Bullies Episode On ABC Family Tv Online Tv Live Streaming Video. Online Watch The Newsroom Full Episode Watch Stream HD Video on Internet TV.Meanwhile, Will has a bout of insomnia that leads him to therapy, and he learns a lesson about bullying after his rude behavior in an interview.From the mind of Aaron Sorkin, creator of The West Wing and screenwriter of The Social Network and Moneyball, comes "The Newsroom", a behind-the-scenes look at the people who make a nightly cable-news program. Focusing on a network anchor (played by Jeff Daniels), his new executive producer (Emily Mortimer), the newsroom staff (John Gallagher, Jr., Alison Pill, Thomas Sadoski, Olivia Munn, Dev Patel) and their boss (Sam Waterston), the series tracks their quixotic mission to do the news well in the face of corporate and commercial obstacles-not to mention their own personal entanglements.The Newsroom is officially at the halfway point of its first season. Having already been renewed for a second season, one would think Sorkin and staff would be able to rest easy, but that’s apparently not the case at all.
This past week, it was announced that Sorkin would be letting go of the majority of his writing staff for this season, perhaps owing to the show’s poor reviews in critical circles.
I’d argue that perhaps expectations were too lofty to begin with, since the show more than makes up for what it lacks in the writing department with incisive, engaging performances from one of the most uniformly talented casts on TV today. It also seems somewhat hypocritical to purge the writing staff, including former MTV News anchor Gideon Yago, when four of the five aired episodes so far bear Sorkin’s name on the script, and his alone, including tonight’s “Amen.”
The episode does an admirable job of juggling two disparate headlines: the fall of Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak and Wisconsin governor Scott Walker’s bill to cut teachers’ jobs as a means of solving the state’s budget crisis. The first development in the story is significant in that it gives Neal (Dev Patel) a chance to finally shine and show us who he is as a character.
Eliot, the anchor of the ten o’clock show Don (Thomas Sadoski) produces, is embedded in Egypt, where riots have broken out on the streets. He has a satellite phone and a whole lot of gumption, not to mention encouragement to get the story from the ground, and so Eliot decides to play Anderson Cooper and go get the story on the streets below.
He’s beaten mercilessly by the crowd for his efforts.
Eliot lives, but it’s at the cost of an embedded reporter, as he must be sent home due to his terrible injuries. Thankfully, Neal knows an Egyptian native who can give them the insight they need. Going by the Twitter handle “Amen” (Egyptian for “the hidden one”), the source agrees to go live on News Night and offer his unique perspective. However, he does this at considerable risk: his face is not concealed, and he uses his real name, Khalid Salim, in the interview. Thus, it’s not really a surprise when Salim goes missing after the interview.
It is surprising, however, when Neal puts his fist through a computer monitor in outrage over a poorly-timed Rush Limbaugh joke about kidnapped journalists. Rush Limbaugh: Lord Paramount of Comedic Timing.
Another bit that worked, which I hadn’t expected to work at all, was the return of the TMI business. The tabloid storyline never seemed to work for me since it didn’t seem like a tabloid would be all that concerned about what the executive producer of a cable news show did in her private life. But nobody does righteous indignation like Jeff Daniels, and the only thing better than seeing Will take Nina Howard (Hope Davis) to task over her insistence that she’s a journalist is watching Charlie Skinner (Sam Waterston) absolutely lay into the host of ACN’s own morning show, after the host catches wind of what TMI is planning to run, and decides to lay it all out for the world to hear.
Waterston’s Skinner is a man who has no patience for any of this. In the tradition of Network, he’s mad as hell and he’s not going to take this anymore. Watching him tell the smug anchor (played by Patrick Fabian) that he had ten seconds to gracefully send the show to commercial break before he’d face termination was wonderfully chilling and cathartic. Sam Waterston just kills it every week with the little screen time he has.
I’d also be remiss if I didn’t mention Emily Mortimer’s excellent work this episode, as she dates her boyfriend Wade when she discovers that he’s only using her to front his own political ambitions. Telling him to leave, lose the congressional election, and go to hell, in that order, was a fantastic kiss-off.
This past week, it was announced that Sorkin would be letting go of the majority of his writing staff for this season, perhaps owing to the show’s poor reviews in critical circles.
I’d argue that perhaps expectations were too lofty to begin with, since the show more than makes up for what it lacks in the writing department with incisive, engaging performances from one of the most uniformly talented casts on TV today. It also seems somewhat hypocritical to purge the writing staff, including former MTV News anchor Gideon Yago, when four of the five aired episodes so far bear Sorkin’s name on the script, and his alone, including tonight’s “Amen.”
The episode does an admirable job of juggling two disparate headlines: the fall of Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak and Wisconsin governor Scott Walker’s bill to cut teachers’ jobs as a means of solving the state’s budget crisis. The first development in the story is significant in that it gives Neal (Dev Patel) a chance to finally shine and show us who he is as a character.
Eliot, the anchor of the ten o’clock show Don (Thomas Sadoski) produces, is embedded in Egypt, where riots have broken out on the streets. He has a satellite phone and a whole lot of gumption, not to mention encouragement to get the story from the ground, and so Eliot decides to play Anderson Cooper and go get the story on the streets below.
He’s beaten mercilessly by the crowd for his efforts.
Eliot lives, but it’s at the cost of an embedded reporter, as he must be sent home due to his terrible injuries. Thankfully, Neal knows an Egyptian native who can give them the insight they need. Going by the Twitter handle “Amen” (Egyptian for “the hidden one”), the source agrees to go live on News Night and offer his unique perspective. However, he does this at considerable risk: his face is not concealed, and he uses his real name, Khalid Salim, in the interview. Thus, it’s not really a surprise when Salim goes missing after the interview.
It is surprising, however, when Neal puts his fist through a computer monitor in outrage over a poorly-timed Rush Limbaugh joke about kidnapped journalists. Rush Limbaugh: Lord Paramount of Comedic Timing.
Another bit that worked, which I hadn’t expected to work at all, was the return of the TMI business. The tabloid storyline never seemed to work for me since it didn’t seem like a tabloid would be all that concerned about what the executive producer of a cable news show did in her private life. But nobody does righteous indignation like Jeff Daniels, and the only thing better than seeing Will take Nina Howard (Hope Davis) to task over her insistence that she’s a journalist is watching Charlie Skinner (Sam Waterston) absolutely lay into the host of ACN’s own morning show, after the host catches wind of what TMI is planning to run, and decides to lay it all out for the world to hear.
Waterston’s Skinner is a man who has no patience for any of this. In the tradition of Network, he’s mad as hell and he’s not going to take this anymore. Watching him tell the smug anchor (played by Patrick Fabian) that he had ten seconds to gracefully send the show to commercial break before he’d face termination was wonderfully chilling and cathartic. Sam Waterston just kills it every week with the little screen time he has.
I’d also be remiss if I didn’t mention Emily Mortimer’s excellent work this episode, as she dates her boyfriend Wade when she discovers that he’s only using her to front his own political ambitions. Telling him to leave, lose the congressional election, and go to hell, in that order, was a fantastic kiss-off.