'My Father's Dragon' Review: Even Cartoon Saloon's Most Generic Movie Is Still Magicalħ New Netflix Shows in October 2022 - and the Best Reasons to Watchīut before it ends, we’ll be taken back to the beginning. 'Please Baby Please' Review: Andrea Riseborough Cuts Loose in Madcap '50s Fantasy And then there’s “ What Kind Of Day Has It Been,” the forehead-slappingly awful conclusion to “ The Newsroom.” Clunky music montages wrapped up the last two episodes, Charlie Skinner ( Sam Waterston) was killed off in another act of martyrdom for The Cause Of Journalism and, generally speaking, Sorkin has indulged his worst tendencies with reckless abandon. The leaked documents mostly became an excuse to mythologize Will McAvoy ( Jeff Daniels) as a hero of ethical and moral duty by not divulging the name of the source, Maggie and Jim ( John Gallagher Jr.) reverted to their tedious unacknowledged romance, ACN was purchased by a character who is basically a clumsy mashup of Mark Zuckerberg and Ariana Huffington, and across the last three episodes the show has spiraled steadily downward. ![]() ![]() ![]() But from there it has been a steady roll down hill. ![]() The early third of season three introduced an inspired mainline plot involving a story brewing from stolen classified documents (giving a boost to the talents of the previously underutilized Dev Patel in his role as Neal), along with some exciting developments around previously thinly drawn characters such as Maggie ( Alison Pill), and a texture of the contemporary climate in which social media and hard journalism collide and clash in the background.
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