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The Newsroom's "Oh Shenandoah" begins 52 days after Will (Jeff Daniels) is held in contempt for refusing to give up Neal's (Dev Patel) source to the Kundu documents. We quickly learn that ACN has taken a turn for the "hip" under the reign of the young and ruthless Lucas Pruit (BJ Novak) and is desperately seeking millennials. Miscommunication and extremely poor decisions ensue.
…previously on The Newsroom.
After last night's abysmal attempt of tackling a wrenching albeit relevant issue, it's not worth beating around the bush here with B-plots, so we'll just jump right in: Aaron Sorkin is no better than the citizen journalists his characters fight so fiercely.
Episode after episode, the entire ACN senior staff belittles unaccredited sources who happen to whip out their cell phones at the right place and time. What the creator fails to do, however, is recognize his own lack of professionalism. Sorkin is not doing his own research or fact-checking, and thus, HBO's 9 PM time slot has ironically become a segment of News Night.
In the penultimate episode of the series, Charlie (Sam Waterson) forces Don (Thomas Sadoski) to track down a female student at Princeton who was raped at a party hosted at one of Princeton's prestigious eating clubs. The victim has set up a "vigilante" website naming men who gang raped her at the party where, in her own words, "there was mollie, there was coke, and there were mushrooms" and she mistakenly, "took everything she could get her hands on" after she "drank too much tequila." Charlie wants her to do a live interview for ACN, with one of the men accused of raping her as they have not yet been arrested. This unfortunate situation is because, to quote Don after he sits down with the victim, "This kind of rape is difficult to prove." After the victim gives a poignant and relevant argument about the state of rape culture on campuses in the US, Don begs her not to do the interview because he fears she will exploit herself and in turn, be "slut-shamed." He realizes this will probably cost him his job, but to him, it's the right decision. To make a long story short, she complies.
The problem with "Oh Shenandoah" isn't just Sorkin's poor attempt to shed light on a difficult subject that affects hundreds of thousands of women, but with his hypocrisy. Charlie's argument behind setting up an interview with the accused is that her story is "promotable and will bring in a younger audience" as campus rape obviously affects young people. Okay, sure. Sickeningly offensive, but sure, it's a business and you're under a lot of pressure, Charlie, we get it. Where Sorkin failed, however, is in his execution, as he's doing the same exact thing for the The Newsroom as Charlie for News Night: using rape for ratings.
Time and again, through his uneven characters, Sorkin relentlessly touts journalistic ethics, the importance of research, and most of all, the invaluable characteristic of integrity. ACN has always strived to be the truest news source — ratings be damned — built of a team unafraid to take on the most controversial stories. Heck, that's why Will has been in jail for the last 52 days, right? Well, we're no longer buying it. Sorkin has become his antogonists: the Blairs, the Pruits, the Gawkers. His attempting to shed light on a relevant issue failed before it began when Don admitted to Charlie, "I don't know where to start."
The apt slogan for this season is, "Every story needs a final word." Well, Sorkin, hurry up, because at this point, we're not sure if we really care to hear it.
In other news:
- Will's hostile cell mate turns out to be a delusion of his father. Mmmkay.
- Maggie and Jim are a thing again after they try and fail to track down Edward Snowden and it was totally predictable aside from the extremely unromantic circumstances.
- Neal's source shoots herself in front of the Department of Justice and after some swindling by Will's lawyer, by the end of the episode, he's out of jail.
- Sloan takes down the manager of ACN Digital, who also runs the celebrity stalker app ACNgage, which allows users to upload info regarding celebrities' whereabouts in New York and L.A. She tricks him into doing a promotional interview for the app, but proceeds to tear him apart on camera with absolutely no fear of getting herself or Mac fired. All things considered, the interview was amazingly executed, and the new kid on the block walked off with his tail between his legs. Prior to this, however, Sorkin made yet another terrible judgement and managed to offend the audience both he and ACN are so desperately trying to acquire: millennials. This "kid" running the digital arm of the network might as well have had a name tag that read, "HELLO, MY NAME IS 'ANTAGONIST'." Every time the camera panned around to his desk, where he was wired in so deep he couldn't hear Sloan and Don approaching, I expected to see crushed cans of Monster and Red Bull. Costume design could have very well borrowed a hoodie from Jessie Eisenberg's wardrobe collection when he was cast as a sensationalized embodiment of Mark Zuckerberg in the The Social Network. Oh wait, who wrote that again?
- All this stress causes Charlie to have a heart attack and die.
- Neal is still
vacationinghiding out in Venezuela.
Until next time, this has been Olivia Armstrong for Decider. We'll see you after the finale.
Read more recaps of The Newsroom:
Season 3, Episode 1: "Boston"
Season 3, Episode 2: "Run"
Season 3, Episode 3: "Main Justice"
Season 3, Episode 4: "Contempt"
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