The Newsroom Recap: Springtime for Cairo and Madison

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By vallegirl | Wednesday, July 25, 2012 | 7:10 am | 4 Comments
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Clearly not because we’re not done. Will surveys his awesomeness while Mackenzie gazes up at him adoringly before they share an inappropriate hug in front of the staff. The score crescendos as Neal assumes the role of “adoring gazer” before seeing Khalid on Skype. The end.

Aw, that ending was so emotional I almost hurled. Twice. But I can’t figure out why the show keeps pulling network punches. It’s like they’re unaware of all the things they can, and should, get away with on HBO. Instead it’s all “network family hour” level drama that gets resolved in 57 minutes with everyone smiling at Will and Mackenzie. I mean, Touched by an Angel would find this week’s ending just a bit much. On the plus side, only five more to go.

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Vallegirl has never actually lived in a valley, has a lot of time on her hands and likes to yell at kids about how things were in her day.  Currently in LA, she's also spent a lot of time in the great states of  New York and Florida so she's not crazy, it's just a cultural thing.

4 Comments

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    Jaycee
    Posted July 25, 2012 at 9:29 am

    I used to watch This Old House as a kid with my dad; “mid-century colonial” is totally a thing. (A vague, poorly phrased thing.) Unless you were really into the show, you would assume that they were working on the same house all the time, at least in the later seasons.

    So, bets on when Will and Mackenzie are going to stop belittling each other and have sex on set?

  2. 2
    vallegirl vallegirl
    Posted July 26, 2012 at 12:32 pm

    Heh. I almost went with a more Sorkinian level of sneering certitude that “mid-century Colonial” wasn’t a thing but backed off it to just say it wasn’t a TOH thing. But I only watched about a half an early Vila season where they were working on an actual Colonial in Massachusetts for the season so I’m not an expert.

    But Sorkin proven to be rather prudish about portraying sex and/or nudity so we’re more likely to have them just make out on set. In full view of the entire staff and possibly with Reese and/or Leona around and the staff will gaze upon them all starry-eyed.

  3. 3
    Jaycee
    Posted July 27, 2012 at 6:43 am

    I think it’ll go this way: Will and Mackenzie will start having sex on set, but it’ll cut away to a teary-eyed Maggie before we see any of the good stuff, and then Maggie will run off and demand a full commitment from Don, which of course he doesn’t provide. Then the sex appears in TMI, Charlie lectures Will about it, Will speechifies about the good old days when people’s sex lives were private (conveniently forgetting that he had sex AT WORK) and everything will go back to normal (for this show).

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    LIBelle
    Posted July 28, 2012 at 5:34 am

    Your last paragraph summed up my exact feelings about this show. I feel cheated. I was expecting a great meal, not a cheap Golden Corral buffet.

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