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Title: The Blackout, Part 2: Mock Debate (19 Aug 2012)
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| Episode cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Jeff Daniels | ... | Will McAvoy | |
| Emily Mortimer | ... | MacKenzie McHale | |
| John Gallagher Jr. | ... | Jim Harper | |
| Alison Pill | ... | Maggie Jordan | |
| Thomas Sadoski | ... | Don Keefer | |
| Dev Patel | ... | Neal Sampat | |
| Olivia Munn | ... | Sloan Sabbith | |
| Sam Waterston | ... | Charlie Skinner | |
| Adam Arkin | ... | Adam Roth | |
| David Krumholtz | ... | Dr. Jack Habib | |
| Terry Crews | ... | Lonny Church | |
| Paul Schneider | ... | Brian Brenner | |
| Kelen Coleman | ... | Lisa Lambert | |
| Jake McDorman | ... | Tate Brady | |
| Adina Porter | ... | Kendra James | |
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The pitch to the RNC requires one last push to drive ratings up: Lisa knew Casey Anthony in high school, so Jim and Maggie visit her at work to beg her to appear on the show. The day of the pitch arrives: Will takes the team of Republican presidential hopefuls through a mock debate. Will asks his psychiatrist why he can't forgive Mackenzie; she hits some emotional high notes about both the Anthony coverage and Brian's presence in the newsroom. Flowers are in Will's office; how they got there prompts Mackenzie to tell Jim to gather his rosebuds. Neal, with Sloan's help, hatches a new plan to get his troll license. There's danger in both Jim and Neal's actions. Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>
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Don Keefer: Yeah?
Tate Brady: How would you and Elliot Hirsch like to have one of the debates?
Don Keefer: Eat me.
Tate Brady: Mr. Skinner, I'm trying to be as dip...
Charlie Skinner: When Don says "eat me," that's usually the end of the conversation.
Tate Brady: Sloan Sabbith! You want to be a star?
Sloan Sabbith: Me?
Tate Brady: Yeah.
Sloan Sabbith: Fuck you.
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(uncredited)
Written by JR Bailey, Rudy Clark, and Ken Williams
Performed by The Main Ingredient
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In the episode "News Night 2.0", Will states that Neil Armadi Sandpat means "blue jewel". In this episode we see that Neil's hacker handle is *Blue_Jewel*. See more »Quotes
Tate Brady: Don Keefer!Don Keefer: Yeah?
Tate Brady: How would you and Elliot Hirsch like to have one of the debates?
Don Keefer: Eat me.
Tate Brady: Mr. Skinner, I'm trying to be as dip...
Charlie Skinner: When Don says "eat me," that's usually the end of the conversation.
Tate Brady: Sloan Sabbith! You want to be a star?
Sloan Sabbith: Me?
Tate Brady: Yeah.
Sloan Sabbith: Fuck you.
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Everybody Plays the Fool(uncredited)
Written by JR Bailey, Rudy Clark, and Ken Williams
Performed by The Main Ingredient
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The Newsroom
Sorkin's admirable attempt to dramatize the news section with a gut wrenching anatomy on behind the scenes of this show business, is one of the biggest upset ever to come across the screen. And not because of its failure on various aspects, it still falls under mediocrity but the expectations that it brought with such caliber of cast and makers, it is surely a swing and a miss. Sorkin's signature writing patterns is clearly visible as it is brimmed with competitive arguments and too many verbal sparring that moves with ferocious pace, he always keeps his audience on the edge of their seat trying to keep up with the narration.
But as much political galore this vision is, the actual content, the core of the drama that it has to and does rely upon is the real culprit in here. The conversations are chalky and the connections of the plots to pass the storyline forward is poorly weaved out. It seems like the venue has changed but the usual love affairs and breaking and mending of equations, is still their, the seen-this-seen-that details are outdated and audience is much smarter than this. The execution too isn't appropriately handled along with the camera work that is more pretentious than it is productive.
The only responsible man that makes your time worth is Daniels, in his morally complex and socially challenged coat that he is in, which too may seem like your usual anti-hero, but has much to offer as the character ages on screen. Supporting parallel-y is Mortimer whose quirkiness is easily absorbing, than her drama is, to be fair she isn't given the range to factor on a larger scale. Other supporting cast like Pill, Patel, Munn, Sadoski and Gallagher Jr. are the weak links to the series. The Newsroom could have been much more than just news, and this time even Sorkin couldn't convince us to watch the news.
Season 01
The euphoric energy that ignites its pilot, never wears off throughout the season, but with none whatsoever new concrete material to offer in terms of characters or the equations between them, this is probably the most disappointing writing to come from Sorkin's magic bag.
The Blackout, Part 2: Mock Debate
The material was clearly overstretched which can be seen, but there are few sequences that catches your eye especially with Daniels, but the love equation questions the sincerity and logistics of the structure.