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It wasn’t the worst thing in the episode, believe it or not. They were both right - Don for thinking that such a website would ultimately create false positives and potentially ruin the lives of innocent people, and the rape victim, who balanced that possibility with sense of justice that would come from punishing potentially hundreds, or even thousands of rapists who would otherwise escape the consequences of their actions. It was an off-key exchange between a rape victim who launched a website to identify and shame other rapists who wouldn’t otherwise be brought to justice by the criminal system, and Don, who was attempting to explain to her why that was a bad idea.

In fact, thanks to Thomas Sadoski - who plays Don - the rape issue subplot may have been the best handled of the show, though that isn’t saying much. I didn’t even hate it for the reasons one might think if you’d only read the episode description and knew that Sorkin was taking up the issue of rape on college campuses (I know, I know).

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It was the worst of the series since the Africa episode in season two (the lone major misstep in an otherwise excellent season). That somebody was Aaron Sorkin.Īnd “Shenandoah”? My God, that was a terrible fucking episode of television. Sorkin is a condescending prick, but he’s also a sentimental prick, and the way those two competing forces collide and meet in the middle hits me in my happy place.Īll of which is to say, if I hate an episode of Newsroom, then somebody must have torn the fabric out of its soul.

I didn’t even mind last week’s episode, with its contrived, sitcom-y conclusion. I forgave the missteps in the first season, I overlooked the fact that Sorkin was basically stealing from himself, and I enjoy wallowing in his smugness, because sometimes Sorkin’s characters say things that I agree with but am not a big enough asshole to say aloud. Let me preface this by saying - for those of you not familiar with where I stand on Aaron Sorkin’s Newsroom - that I’ve been a huge defender of the series since the beginning.

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