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Title: Unintended Consequences (04 Aug 2013)
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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 | |
| Marcia Gay Harden | ... | Rebecca Halliday | |
| David Harbour | ... | Elliot Hirsch | |
| Hamish Linklater | ... | Jerry Dantana | |
| Grace Gummer | ... | Hallie Shea | |
| Aya Cash | ... | Shelly Wexler | |
| Chris Chalk | ... | Gary Cooper | |
| Constance Zimmer | ... | Taylor Warren | |
October 3, 2011: When Will's interview with Shelly of OWS goes horribly wrong, the Genoa team are at risk of losing a potentially valuable lead. Recounting her trip in Uganda to Rebecca Halliday, Maggie relives the experience. Jim's frustrations with the Romney campaign continue. Written by Nadia Nassar
The Newsroom episode #14 is titled "Unintended Consequences." I'm titling the show "Slap-Happy" referring to the characters on screen as well as to how I, as a viewer, feel.
The problem with this show is that it can't make up its mind. What kind of show is it? A serious drama or a sit-com? You can't mix the two without having the viewers feel jerked around. And in this last episode, we see some characters totally changing their character. People don't change their personality from week to week.
We see a totally new Maggie in this episode. Her long blond hair is gone, and she is now a redhead with a spiky pixie cut. Her public meltdowns and scatter-brained proclivities are gone, and she's all no-nonsense steely. Perhaps a trip to Arica and an attack by bandits can do that for a person. (Or maybe Sorkin, the series creator, just got tired of the constant barrage of "Maggie's an idiot" comments in the press, and so he did a character transplant.) On a better show, this incident in Africa where a young child who Maggie befriended is killed as Maggie tries to help him escape from the bandits would be poignant; on this show it just seems out of place.
This is an except from the full review on my blogspot blog: Premium Cable Reviews