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We’re back—WIRED’s very own Will McAvoy and MacKenzie McHale (in gender and not much else) recapping HBO’s The Newsroom in their own not-quite facsimile of Sorkinese. This week, Maggie Jordan’s (Alison Pill) stock rose as she ascended higher above her former broken self—and further still above her former would-be suitor, Jim Harper (John Gallagher Jr.). Rebecca Halliday (Marcia Gay Harden) continued to protect ACN from evil (and itself) Charlie Skinner (Sam Waterston) was drunk (probably) in the face of crisis. It’s three episodes down and three to go as time marches cruelly on toward the end of our fair Newsroom. Commence!
Jordan Crucchiola: God this musiiiiiiicccc!
I love that speed reading frame.
It’s so reporterly.
Jason Kehe: Sometimes I’m better positioned to enjoy the credits.
Crucchiola: Today?
Kehe: Today is one of those days.
Crucchiola: Great.
Season 3, Episode 3: “Main Justice”
Of course Gary Cooper is wearing that hat.
Kehe: He’s singing…”Anything Goes”?
I hope this means Gary’s gay.
Crucchiola: I never considered that!
The raid is underway!
The FBI dogs are sniffing around!
Kehe: Why would Jim VOLUNTEER his password to evil FBI agents?
Crucchiola: Because SHUT UP JIM.
Kehe: Mac: “This is a fucking OUTRAGE.”
Crucchiola: Hahahah Marley’s ghost?!
Kehe: FBI woman to Mac (Emily Mortimer): “You kiss your sources with that mouth?”
Crucchiola: Sloan Sabbit (Olivia Munn): “I see one of you guys buy a speedboat…” Haha. Sloan will NOT abide insider trading by FBI raiders.
Kehe: AS I PREDICTED: They’re going ON AIR with the raid.
Crucchiola: Oh YEAH!
Why is Maggie STILL in the ACN hat?!
Kehe: Maggie: STILL wearing the hat. Haha, dear god WHY.
Crucchiola: Whyyyyyy???
Kehe: FBI Molly (Mary McCormack) hasn’t RSVP’d to Mac and Will’s wedding, because this is the right time.
Crisis.
Crucchiola: Well now we know she’s rude.
Kehe: Don (Thomas Sadoski) and Jim can’t figure out the machines in the control room. Maggie walks in.
Crucchiola: Maggie is ACN’s only hope.
Kehe: That sexy confident walk? Worth waiting three seasons for.
Crucchiola: Maggie to Jim: “Shut up.”
Maggie is me.
Kehe: So are they bluffing??
Will the FBI cave?
Crucchiola: I can’t tell!
Mac: Still giving the FBI agent Molly Levy crap about not RSVP’ing.
Kehe: It’s $210 for a plate at Mac and Will’s wedding. Is that a lot?
Crucchiola: Yes. Not extravagant, but spendy.
THE FBI IS GIVING IN!
Kehe: There was a USC event once where it was $5,000 a plate.
Crucchiola: Sick.
Kehe: You’ll notice I’m employing the strategy of not discussing the relevant crisis.
OK, FBI is STANDING DOWN.
Crucchiola: Charlie is calling off the live feed and the FBI is bailing.
But was it a fake-out?
Kehe: Jim: “I’m not sure how I feel about new confident Maggie.”
OMG.
Jordan.
They’re SO setting up Maggie-Jim reunion.
Crucchiola: GO HOME JIM.
And setting up Jim-Is-A-Dick-Who-Only-Wants-Women-He-Can-Save.
Kehe: Will: “I’m not at all convinced we’re the good guys.”
Becca Halliday: back in action!
Crucchiola: Becca negotiates ceasefire.
Becca, queen of ACN.
Who may have $4 billion.
Kehe: She just got off the phone with, like, powerful people in Justice.
Molly just lost her plus-one.
Crucchiola: AND she’s at the loser table at the wedding.
Kehe: Mac to Molly: “YOU’RE GETTING THE FISH AND THE FISH IS GONNA SUCK.”
Crucchiola: Hahahahahah MAC!
Will says Neal is safe.
How does he know?
Becca ALSO wants to know.
Kehe: She mad.
OK, secret (no doubt smoke-filled) meeting Friday at midnight (?!) with investigators.
Crucchiola: Smoking Will is Unsympathetic Will for me.
Kehe: Charlie looks like he’s getting the sweats.
Hahahahah!
DRUNK UNCLE CHARLIE!
Charlie: “For now just go drink—home! Just go home.”
Kehe: We don’t know what sober Charlie looks or sounds like.
Crucchiola: Will: “They’re not gonna lock me up. I’m too big to jail.”
Ohhhhhh snap!
Mac wants to know if Will is lying to her about knowing who the source is.
Will wouldn’t lie to her.
Kehe: Never.
Aw, subtle handholding.
Or was that an ass grab?
Crucchiola: It was a transition between one and the other.
[Next day in the ACN newsroom.]
Crucchiola: Cut to Maggie highlighting documents!
Ugh
And talking to Jim.
For some reason.
Kehe: She’s telling Jim about her secret embargoed EPA report.
Crucchiola: She’s telling him CO2 is going to kill us.
Thanks to the knowledge she has from the report.
Kehe: Their dynamic: it’s like Season 1 all over again.
Jim is putting her down.
Maggie is relenting. I don’t like.
Crucchiola: GO. HOME. JIM.
Kehe: He’s being extremely obnoxious.
Crucchiola: Is this his ultra-patronizing way of telling Maggie her story is boring?
Kehe: Jim: “Hit me.”
Crucchiola: MAGGIE HIT HIM!!
SHE HIT JIM!
Maggie is STILL ME.
Kehe: …for ALL OF US
Crucchiola: And ALL OF US.
Kehe: So what is their relationship?!
Is it crackling with sexual energy?
Or more like sibling rivalry?
Crucchiola: This show is being canceled because of Jim.
Jim is the worst part of television.
Kehe: That’s hyperbole, Jordan.
Jim is maladjusted and insecure.
Crucchiola: I can’t deny how I feel.
Kehe: Mac put Maggie’s EPA story in the B block, drat.
Crucchiola: Jim: “You want this to feel more like a Jim Harper segment and less like a Maggie Jordan segment?”
Go to hell.
Kehe: Maggie gives him marked-up report.
Every passage, ridiculously, is highlighted.
Crucchiola: I’m with you, Maggie.
But seriously.
Maggie is everything.
Jim: “I’m looking forward to working with you.”
Maggie, through a clinched smile: “I’m dreading it.”
Cut to Charlie.
[Inside Charlie's office.]
Kehe: Reese and Leona are coming down.
Crucchiola: Yiiiiiikes.
Kehe: Must be bad.
Crucchiola: In a rare moment, Charlie looks real worried.
Kehe: Charlie is slamming his desk.
Charlie: “Leona! I didn’t know you knew where my office was.”
Leona: “I followed Reese.”
Crucchiola: The One True Pairing is on screen
Kehe: Leona-Charlie?
Crucchiola: Yes.
Kehe: The OTP is Don-Sloan.
Crucchiola: OK.
Good call.
Kehe: You said that yourself.
Crucchiola: No, you’re right.
But they ARE The Architect and the Oracle.
Uh-oh. ACN has to be spun off to raise the cash to beat the evil twins.
Kehe: Leona equates horizontal stripes and poisoning the twins: both bad ideas.
Crucchiola: OMG the ACN prime buyer is from SILICON VALLEY.
Tech Industry Takedown on the horizon!
[In the ACN conference room, where the name of the prospective buyer is announced.]
Kehe: This is a ridiculous scene with the cell phones.
Nobody Googles that fast.
If I could do that I’d run the world.
Crucchiola: They’re the new desktops, Jason.
[In Will's office with Mac and Charlie.]
Crucchiola: WOW.
Charlie’s stutter…
Kehe: Sorkin at his best.
Crucchiola: Haha!
Mac: “Find your way home…”
Charlie is SO drunk!
Kehe: I love when Sorkin’s most articulate characters trip over their words.
Crucchiola: Well.
Kehe: What is Mac doing with her phone? It’s like she’s never held one before.
Crucchiola: Aahahahahaha!
Kehe: She’s reading back Will’s own disparaging remarks about the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, which Charlie wants them to go to, but it looks like she’s also filming him?
She just said “ensorceled.”
I like that word.
Crucchiola: Her Googling is NOT as sharp as intern Jenna’s.
Kehe: Not even close.
Mac’s not even on Twitter, remember.
Crucchiola: Millionaire tech guy Pruitt wants to meet Will at the Correspondents’ Dinner.
Oh no…
Kehe: Mac: “This is a sad day for dignity. I’ll need a dress.”
[Jim and Hallie prepping for bed.]
Crucchiola: Jim and Hallie
Kehe: I’m dreading this.
Crucchiola: Leave him Hallie.
LEAVE HIM.
Kehe: Why is Gunther wearing glasses?
Crucchiola: She’s getting ready for bed.
Women don’t have to be on all the time, Jason.
Don’t be patronizing like Jim.
Kehe: James?
She calls him JAMES?!
Crucchiola: Ugh.
Kehe: Like his mother.
Where is cool Gunther?!
Crucchiola: She’s with Jim.
He broke all her cool.
He’s sucked her dry.
Jim is telling Hallie to be OK with the job she is being offered.
While CLEARLY criticizing it/her.
Kehe: Right.
Crucchiola: It’s how he thrives.
Off the confidence of young and determined women.
To feed his ego.
Jim and Hallie are now fighting about the future of media.
Kehe: This scene is so Sorkin.
Crucchiola: Does The Sork hate Jim?
Kehe: Jim: “Don’t take this job.”
It’s at a new media startup.
She gets paid for…pageviews.
Which Jim thinks is anti-journalistic.
Crucchiola: AKA The Sork thinks it is.
Kehe: Jim is afraid she’ll sell out ACN or Neal?!
Crucchiola: Or HIM??
Kehe: Way to trust your GF.
Crucchiola: Shut UP, Jim!
Hallie: “The only way for you to get out of this conversation alive is to roll over, turn out the light and go to sleep.”
YES.
Kehe: Gunther: “Turn off the FUCKING light.”
Crucchiola: “DO WHAT I SAID.”
Kehe: NOOO.
Just as she wins, she backs down.
Damn it, Sorkin.
Crucchiola: Damn it!
Be better Aaron!
Kehe: Give Gunther that victory!
Crucchiola: She needed it.
[In Don's office with unknown man.]
Kehe: Don and some new guy in random office.
Crucchiola: Ominous new guy…
Kehe: “You’re the first person I’ve met named Wyatt.”
Come to think, I don’t know a Wyatt. Personally.
Crucchiola: Don is smugly eating salad.
Kehe: So this guy is HR.
Crucchiola: Don: “I don’t get nervous. You know who gets nervous? Criminals.”
Kehe: Gary Cooper (Chris Chalk) and a new woman—Alice?—enter.
What is this scene doing?
Who is Alice?
Crucchiola: I don’t think we need to care.
Kehe: Also, introducing new characters? They have three episodes left.
Crucchiola: Gary sleeps with lots of women at work.
Kehe: So Gary: not gay.
Crucchiola: He just loves to tell the new HR guy how many women he’s slept with at work.
Kehe: Oof, are they REALLY trying to set up Don-Sloan as a problem relationship?
FALSE CONFLICT ALERT!
Crucchiola: The fact that I melt at Don’s smug smile, which used to make me want to vomit, really speaks to the power of his character transformation.
There’s so much going on and we’ve only got three episodes left.
This doesn’t need to be an issue.
Kehe: Why would they do this on TOP of, ya know, ALL THE OTHER PROBLEMS.
Crucchiola: Leave the OTP out of this!
Kehe: LET DON EAT SALAD. And love our Sloan.
Crucchiola: Our Sloan.
The nation’s Sloan.
Sloan 2016.
Haha Don is SPRINTING to Sloan!
Kehe: Don: “We’re not dating.”
Sloan: “OK”
HBO
[Maggie and Jim circle back on EPA story.]
Kehe: Maggie, still clutching her report.
Now addressing Jim.
Crucchiola: Hopefully to tell him he’s awful.
Kehe: Her tone of voice is doing that.
Yet he’s STILL patronizing her.
Crucchiola: It’s his only tone of voice.
Kehe: Like, nothing he says ever validates his supposed position of superiority.
Crucchiola: Maggie is critiquing his notes on the EPA interview.
Kehe: And they seem pretty bad.
“Cash for trash.”
Is that what people say?
Crucchiola: Jim: “Did you know there are online news outlets that offer bonuses to their reporters for pageviews?”
Ahhh there it is! Also how could you not know that Jim?!?!
Maggie: “You were a dick to Hallie.”
Kehe: Maggie calls it: Jim’s a dick.
Crucchiola: “And you were a dick. A little bit Dickensian in your special way that says ‘You suck.'”
Kehe: He puts the dick in Dickensian.
Crucchiola: “I’m quite certain there was something in your voice that says ‘You deserved it.'”
Can we ALL clap for Maggie, please.
Kehe: He’s asking who she’s bringing to the Correspondents’ Dinner.
Because he loves her.
Crucchiola: She is the rising star of this season.
He CAN’T HAVE HER.
Kehe: She’s always been our heart and soul.
Crucchiola: She too confident for him now.
We knew.
[Mac and the FBI Agent Levy in a sauna.]
Kehe: Mac and Molly are meeting in a … steam room?
The steam conceals their lies and deceptions.
Molly is frisking a berobed Mac.
Crucchiola: I love this steam room meeting.
Kehe: FBI knows Neal helped source transfer docs.
Crucchiola: They have evidence.
They seem to have him dead to rights.
OH MY GOD!
DAN RATHER SHOUTOUT!
Kehe: DAN RATHER POTSHOT!
Crucchiola: And yet supportive at the same time!
Kehe: Good thing Dan stopped recapping.
He didn’t need to hear that.
Crucchiola: This is amazing!
Our Dan!
In the Newsroom!
I think he’d be so pleased to be mentioned he wouldn’t even care they called out his massive end-of-career blunder.
We love you, Dan.
Aaron Sorkin still believes in you too.
[Moody bar meetup with ACN senior staffers.]
Crucchiola: Mac meets Don and Jim in a bar.
To discuss Neal.
Kehe: She wants to know if someone’s in touch with him.
Is Mac siding with the FBI now?
Crucchiola: Mac: “No reporter has ever been charged under the espionage act.”
They keep saying that.
Like, over and over again.
Kehe: This season/Sorkin generally: good for a verbal tic.
Crucchiola: What do we think that means?
Kehe: That Sorkin did, like, research?
Crucchiola: Hahahaha!
He read the precedents!
[Back in the control room.]
Kehe: Maggie’s EPA story!
I like hearing her broadcast voice.
It’s very convincing.
Crucchiola: Cut to her EPA source in the waiting room.
I love this guy.
Kehe: Very mousy.
Crucchiola: He looks like he’s dying inside.
In an almost charming way.
Kehe: Live interview.
He has lots of impressive degrees.
Crucchiola: Very.
Kehe: Will to EPA gy: “What’s your prognosis?”
Crucchiola: “A person has already been born who will die due to catastrophic failure of the planet.”
Kehe: The house has already burned to the ground.
Crucchiola: House = Earth
Kehe: There’s nothing we can do.
Maggie looks surprised.
Crucchiola: Literally no one at ACN understands what to do now.
Kehe: Don’t they pre-interview these people?
Crucchiola: Not today!
Kehe: I hope this doesn’t reflect badly on Maggie.
It was a good story.
Until the guy says the world is ending, with no hope of reversal.
Crucchiola: “There isn’t a position on this any more than there is a position on at what temperature water boils.”
Will: “Let’s see if we can’t find a better spin. People are starting their weekends.”
WILL!
Kehe: So you were right: the EPA guy IS dying inside.
Due to climate change.
Crucchiola: We’re all dying, Jason.That poor producer woman. She looks like she’s gonna cry.
Kehe: Well, she forgot the pre-interview.
Everyone watching is extremely riveted.
What’s the point of this?
Is this a metaphor?
Crucchiola: “Storms that have the power to level cities, blacking out the sky and causing permanent darkness.”
Kehe: Is this The Newsroom?
Crucchiola: THAT is the question.
Everything is The Newsroom!
Kehe: Right.
Crucchiola: “I still don’t see any way we could survive.”
That’s it.
That’s the takeaway.
Kehe: Dying world = this show.
[In the Main Justice hall.]
Crucchiola: We’re in the DoJ!
I’m excited.
Kehe: MAIN JUSTICE
Crucchiola: BTW, I like where women are in this episode.
Maggie, killing it
Becca—psh. Always.
Leona, humanized by going downstairs.
Kehe: Agreed.
On one side of the table: Mac, Will, Becca, Charlie.
I want to be in that company.
Scary guy enters.
Barry something?
He uh, looks like Azog the orc king.
Crucchiola: Ahaaahahahaaha!
Really good call.
Kehe: Must be the same guy.
Same dark twisted heart.
Crucchiola: Charlie ensures them he wants the story responsibly reported.
Kehe: Azog positioned himself at the opposite end of the table.
More sports metaphors.
Crucchiola: God.
Kehe: I wish I knew a sports metaphor for STOP IT.
Crucchiola: His college lost to Nebraska (Will’s home state) all four years in college football.
MALE VENDETTA.
Kehe: Great!
Because sports define male relationships.
Crucchiola: Will wants assurances of Neal’s safety.
Kehe: The FBI knows where Neal is.
Maracaibo?!
Which looks bad for Neal.
They have pictures of him looking over his shoulder.
It’s just THAT EASY!
Crucchiola: Will looks like he’s Dexter about to carve up a body when he side-eyes the lawyer.
Will literally brushes himself off.
“Counsel, ask your questions.”
Kehe: Will: so good at being cool under pressure.
Crucchiola: He and Becca are keeping it cool.
Kehe: Except when he’s not.
Crucchiola: Haaaahaha
That’s why he’s got Becca.
Kehe: We all need a Becca.
Crucchiola: Will will not reveal anything about the source.
I need her.
Everyday.
I wish she was my amazing aunt.
Who I went to fancy events with.
Kehe: Becca to Azog: “This ends our cooperation.”
This is how she’d end our lunch dates.
Crucchiola: Bad news: There’s a receipt from Will’s credit card buying the air-gapped computer to transfer the covert docs.
DoJ lawyer accuses him of staging all this to take the fall.
Kehe: Azog: “Who’s the source, Will.”
Crucchiola: Jason, do we think Will knows who the source is REALLY?
Kehe: Will: “You’re bad at this.”
Yes, I think so.
?
Crucchiola: Will: “I’ll tell you what Mr. Lazenthal: You’re bad at this.”
Kehe: Will’s going off—calmly, devastatingly.
Crucchiola: Protecting all his people.
While skinning this guy alive.
Is it weird that I’m turned on right now?
I said it.
I am.
Kehe: Wow.
Crucchiola: Jeff Daniels. Sex symbol.
“You bungled this, and I can’t help you anymore.”
[On to Hill and Hollywood hobnobbing.]
Crucchiola: Cut to Correspondents’ Dinner.
I think we also need to note that the Correspondents’ Dinner is as gross as Will says it is/as Sorkin says it is.
Kehe: Maggie arrives with ethics prof.
He’s telling her story.
Their story.
Which he was “vocationally attracted to”—awesome.
Crucchiola: Ethics prof is giving ethics-y introduction.
Kehe: Sex-ay.
Crucchiola: I love smiling Maggie.
She spent so much time being sad.
Kehe: Gunther is so sad.
Crucchiola: Yeah.
What’s the connection?
Closer contact with Jim.
Kehe: Maggie gave her her sadness.
Crucchiola: HE MAKES WOMEN SAD.
Kehe: Don and Sloan.
Now THEY’RE happy.
He’s about to feed her, but can’t.
HR rep conveniently snooping.
Crucchiola: LOLOL!
HR rep shows up.
So he feeds the meatball to an old man to keep up appearances.
Classic Don.
Sloan to HR: “I date guys called Mr. Chairman, first round draft picks.”
Oh YEAH Sloan!
Kehe: Don is all those things to me.
Crucchiola: Hahahahah
First round draft pick of our heart’s Newsroom fantasy league!
Kehe: Charlie at the bar (obviously).
Is this the potential buyer?
Crucchiola: Mr. Pruitt!
Yes!
And it’s BJ Novak!
Kehe: He’s already terrible.
Crucchiola: And obvi he’s also kind of a savant.
Kehe: I hate a specific drink order.
Crucchiola: He just said “eludes me” twice.
Kehe: Did he?
I must’ve blocked the second time.
Crucchiola: And implies he’s going to fire his assistant for not finding him Schweppes Bitter Lemon.
This is Newsroom borrowing Veep‘s interpretation of Silicon Valley.
Kehe: He’s sorta Zuckerbergian.
Crucchiola: Oh yeah.
I love how Hollywood views Silicon Valley.
Kehe: I wonder where this was filmed.
Crucchiola: At least he’s not in Crocs.
Or maybe I wish he was.
[Outside, where Mac is greeted by a strange guest.]
Crucchiola: WAIT.
Clea DuVall?
Pleeeeaaassseee let her be Mac’s college girl fling!
Oh, nvmd.
She spoke to Neal?
Kehe: SHE’S THE SOURCE.
Crucchiola: GET OUT
Kehe: is she?!
She KNOWS the story.
She must be?
Crucchiola: She’s at the Correspondents’ Dinner!
She’s an insider for sure.
NO!
Jason!
[Back at the bar with Charlie and Silicon Valley creep.]
Crucchiola: Pruitt is about “disruption.”
Kehe: Which he keeps saying.
Crucchiola: “Crowdsourcing the news.”
I’m excusing myself from comment.
On disruption.
“Danny Glover just came to mind. We could have a channel devoted to people who are stalking Danny Glover.”
I’m getting a disruption gag reflex.
Kehe: I want to disrupt his face.
Crucchiola: His bugging eyes are disrupting my calm.
Kehe: Outside: more disruption.
Crucchiola: Mac tells The Source they have to work with the government.
Kehe: Source is demanding the story air by Wednesday (which is soon).
I don’t like her.
At all.
Crucchiola: “I don’t like that you’re working with the government.”
Damn.
Kehe: This worries me.
Crucchiola: All these idealists are bringing me down.
Mac: “A lot of people are sacrificing for you.”
Jenna the intern is rounding people up.
Jenna, still being essential.
Kehe: Everyone’s gathering in the kitchen on the west side of the building.
The west WING, you could say.
Crucchiola: LOL!
I wonder what all the Sork Easter eggs are that we’re missing…
Kehe: Probably lots. [Tell us in the comments!]
Crucchiola: Becca’s on her feet.
Will is… about to get served?
Not in the dancing way.
“Eli Shapiro.”
Kehe: Weasely man shows up with a subpoena in his pocket. (That’s catchy: There’s a subpoena in your pocket! Sorta reminds of fish in the percolator. Anyway.)
He’s an intern, reciting the boilerplate.
Crucchiola: He looks like he’s going to vomit on Will’s shoes.
Kehe: I missed what he said—he has to appear in front of a grand jury?
Crucchiola: “You think it’s possible I’m not as big a TV star as I thought?”
Kehe: END SCENE/EPISODE
Crucchiola: Oh, Will!
Kehe: Thuddy music playing.
Crucchiola: Damn.
Kehe: Wait, was Neal supposed to show up at any point?
Couldn’t catch a flight back from Venezuela?
Crucchiola: I don’t think so.
OK, reflections?
Kehe: Hold please, I’m enjoying this credit music.
The Newsroom has fully embraced its new tone as a NEWS THRILLER.
What do we think?
Crucchiola: It has. It’s turning into an action dramedy.
Kehe: Do we like this shift?
Crucchiola: I do. Let’s have some fun before we are executed.
Kehe: Yes, I think it suits the final run.
Crucchiola: I say we because we are this show.
Kehe: The Newsroom is us, we are The Newsroom.
Also, Maggie: Her heart beats ever so ethically to the sound of news alerts everywhere—and warms ours.
Crucchiola: I think that’s the big standout in this episode.
Maggie is a magical being.
And getting better all the time.
Kehe: Also, Alison Pill’s acting!
Crucchiola: In the NEWsroom spinoff with all the same characters that’s about Don and Sloan, Maggie will be an amazing supporting character.
Kehe: I’ve always enjoyed it.
Crucchiola: Me too.
Kehe: But now I’m REALLY enjoying it.
Crucchiola: I feel like everything we’ve always known about this show is being validated this season.
We are being proven right about defending certain characters, certain tonal choices…
Kehe: Absolutely.
Can we believe Maggie used to date Don?
Crucchiola: Not at all! Sloan and Don are so right they’ve basically never dated anyone else.
I’m glad we didn’t get any actual Neal this episode because he burned me out last time.
Kehe: Seriously. Smart move, Sorkin.
Crucchiola: Watching him get spanked by Becca was satisfying but that’s about all.
Kehe: I get why we need a Neal.
Crucchiola: Yes.
Neal is an idea.
Kehe: And an ideal.
Many of these characters are.
They’re concepts.
And they redefine and enlarge themselves every week.
They’re winners, even if they—and this show—end up at the losers’ table.
Crucchiola: And this episode seemed like a bridge.
That will connect those concepts to actual outcomes in the next one.
Kehe: Exactly.
To sign off, I’m DEFINITELY not as a big a TV star as I thought. Good night!
