The Newsroom

  1. Episode 10 The Greater Fool
    The Newsroom Recap: Don Quixote Rides Again We wonder, who are the greater fools?
  2. Episode 9 The Blackout, Part II: Mock Debate
    The Newsroom Recap: Gather Ye Rosebuds When Don says “eat me,” that’s usually the end of the conversation. Because who says “eat me”?
  3. Episode 8 The Blackout, Part 1: Tragedy Porn
    The Newsroom Recap: Backsliding A dispatch from our own Brian Brenner, who is embedded at News Night.
  4. Episode 7 5/1
  5. Episode 6 Bullies
    The Newsroom Recap: Scorched Source Tactics See how much more fun it is when people make mistakes?
  6. Episode 5 Amen
    The Newsroom Recap: Rudy! Rudy! Rudy! Heads, hands, hearts — nothing is safe on this week’s episode.
  7. Episode 4 I’ll Try to Fix You
    The Newsroom Recap: A Mission to Civilize Lights will guide you … to this recap.
  8. Episode 3 The 112th Congress
    The Newsroom Recap: Careful With the Lectures Last night’s episode was as enjoyable as it was dysfunctional. And, most important, it had the introduction of a real villain.
  9. Episode 2 News Night 2.0
    The Newsroom Recap: We Don’t Do Good Television If every element of News Night is based on MacKenzie’s imbecilic Three Is, thus far each episode of The Newsroom is comprised of three As.
  10. Episode 1 We Just Decided To
    The Newsroom Recap: The Newsman’s Burden One cannot recap an Aaron Sorkin show without also recapping Aaron Sorkin.
  1. Episode 9 Election Night, Part 2
    The Newsroom Season Two Finale Recap This season of The Newsroom may as well have been its apology tour.
  2. Episode 8 Election Night, Part 1
    The Newsroom Recap: ‘We Have Gone to the Zoo’ It’s the most exciting time of the year — Election Night.
  3. Episode 7 Red Team III
    The Newsroom Recap: The Shot Clock Runs Out Over the past few weeks, The Newsroom has remade itself into good television on the fly. All it took was Jerry Dantana.
  4. Episode 6 One Step Too Many
    The Newsroom Recap: If, Then What are we to make of Jerry Dantana?
  5. Episode 5 News Night With Will McAvoy
    The Newsroom Recap: ‘You’re Impressive’ “News Night With Will McAvoy” was the best Newsroom episode to date.
  6. Episode 4 Unintended Consequences
    The Newsroom Recap: Out of Africa We’ve spent so much time talking about The Newsroom’s women problem that we haven’t talked about its race problem.
  7. Episode 3 Willie Pete
    The Newsroom Recap: Mission to Civilize, Onward This episode showed what happens when our heroes try to recruit others into the NewsNight family.
  8. Episode 2 The Genoa Tip
    The Newsroom Recap: Men and Showers “The Genoa Tip” finds our heroes flailing through the cloudy waters of self-doubt.
  9. Episode 1 First Thing We Do, Let’s Kill All the Lawyers
    The Newsroom Season 2 Premiere Recap: Partyin’, Partyin’, Yeah We’re back for season two, and Will is singing Rebecca Black.
  1. Episode 6 What Kind of Day Has It Been
    The Newsroom Series Finale Recap: Back to Normal Farewell, Newsroom, we’re all out of “Fix You” jokes.
  2. Episode 5 Oh Shenandoah
    The Newsroom Recap: The Accused One more episode to go.
  3. Episode 4 Contempt
    The Newsroom Recap: The Egos Have Landed Oh, where does one begin with a Newsroom episode titled “Contempt”?
  4. Episode 3 Main Justice
    The Newsroom Recap: Anything Goes Man, things are getting bleak over at ACN.
  5. Episode 2 Run
    The Newsroom Recap: Catch Me If You Can “I’m a douche on the side of the angels.”
  6. Episode 1 Boston
    The Newsroom Season 3 Premiere Recap: Let’s Be Careful Out There Integrity and virtue don’t mean a thing if no one is watching.

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