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The Newsroom 1.6: Bullies

Jul 30, 2012 00:25

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.

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marymary July 30 2012, 05:39:44 UTC

Favorite lines...

Mac: I have to give you a rotten assignment.
Jim: You got gum in your hair again?
Mac: No! ...Yes, but I got it out.

Don: So what do you say? You are my first and only choice.
Sloan: What about Jerome?
Don: He's in Bermuda
Sloan: Kathy.
Don: It's her parents' 50th anniversary.
Sloan: Taylor?
Don: Bronchitis.
Sloan: So...
Don: Yes, you are my fourth and only choice.

Will: How long?
Lonnie: Until my colleagues chase down the source of the threat or you've been successfully assasinated.

Maggie: Jim, who got kicked out of a study abroad semester. He went to the artic circle.
Jim: I wanted to see the penguins.
Mac: Penguins are in the antarctic.
Jim: Lesson learned.
Mac: Why'd you get kicked out?
Jim: You're not allowed to fraternize with the Inuit.
Maggie: He tried to score with an Eskimo.
Jim: I was just trying to get past the disappointment of the penguins.

Sloan: We'll be back after this with Sarah Bernhardt.

marymary July 30 2012, 05:52:04 UTC

I think my favorite moment was when Don put his finger under Sloan's chin and brought it up a bit. It was sweet, but it was also great in the context of all the conflict they had over the whole thing ( ... )

aunt_deen July 30 2012, 14:34:53 UTC

Hi. :)

I thought the same thing about the ring. Even if he wanted to have it in the drawer, it should have been buried at the back under a whole pile of stuff. And if he's crafty enough to anticipate exactly how she'd react to the late night offer, he's certainly smart enough to think that it shouldn't be right where he'd have to supposedly look at it and reach past it every day for the last four years.

marymary July 30 2012, 15:05:37 UTC

Hi! Response below.

tomfoolery815 July 30 2012, 17:09:15 UTC

I absolutely, unabashedly love your Ainsley icon.

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marymary July 30 2012, 15:11:13 UTC

Even if he wanted to have it in the drawer, it should have been buried at the back under a whole pile of stuff.

Yes, it would have been smart of him to let her see him root around for it.

Having it in the front of the drawer, and having the Tiffany's bag right next to it, was for our benefit. We saw the bag and went, "Waaait, a minute." So yeah, I thought it was badly done.

aunt_deen July 30 2012, 15:18:46 UTC

The blue Tiffany bag should have been on top, visible to the viewer, and then he rummaged in the back for the actual ring.

tomfoolery815 July 30 2012, 17:08:35 UTC

Maggie: He tried to score with an Eskimo.
That was my favorite line, Mary. Alison Pill's gleeful delivery was just perfect.

I also enjoyed Jim's response about disappointment ... and the fact that they were using the opposition-research assignment as an excuse to dig up stuff on each other.

Will: How long?
Lonnie: Until my colleagues chase down the source of the threat or you've been successfully assasinated.
Terry Crews, who plays Lonnie, was "Terry Tate: Office Linebacker" in those commercials for ... some company a few years ago. He seems to be like Nathan Fillion a bit, in that he's a big guy who's also funny. (One of you, I think it was Mary, quoted Joss as saying that NF was that rare combination.) Crews does look like he could sack the quarterback, then make him laugh about it.