"The Newsroom" returned to HBO Sunday night and the premier of season two left viewers with a lot of questions. First of all what happened to Maggie (Alison Pill)? Why is there a lawyer questioning the team? Now that Maggie and Don (Thomas Sadoski) are over will she and Jim (John Gallagher Jr.) finally get together?
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Season two of "The Newsroom" did not begin with the same flair as season one. What does shock you is the first time you see Maggie. Her wholesome, Midwestern, sweet look has gone out the window and has been replaced with a cropped hair that has been died red. Her usual business causal work look has been replaced with an almost 90's like grunge appearance.
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Apparently Maggie went to Uganda in order to follow a story and, "Things got very real very fast and she came back a little messed up."
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The episode was told in flashback. Will McAvoy (Jeff Daniels) is sitting with Rebecca Halliday a lawyer for ACN played by award winning actress Marcia Gay Harden. Halliday is questioning Will about a broadcast the team got wrong and later had to retract.
The flashback begins about a week or so after the finale of season one, when McAvoy called the Tea Party the "American Taliban". The Tea Party was not thrilled with that comparison and as a result Resse Lansing (Chris Messina) the President of ACN's parent company is kept out of a House Judiciary Committee on SOPA.
Stemming from that Charlie (Sam Waterston) decided to pull McAvoy off of covering the tenth anniversary of September 11. Will pretends he is fine with it but later confesses to Mackenzie (Emily Mortimer) that he is hurt and angry about not covering the anniversary.
The "News Night" team is covering the rape accusations against former IMF Chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn. They are also taking a look at the rebellion in Tripoli and Neal (Dev Patel) is desperately trying to get Mac interested in the upcoming "Occupy Wall Street" movement so he goes to a meeting to try an get an inside scoop.
Meanwhile Maggie and Don are living together and Don has "13 days of being a good boyfriend" under his belt. In one scene we see Don packing a few bags as Maggie sleeps. Instantly we think he has freaked out and is running out on Maggie. Instead we find out Maggie's cousin (who hates her, but has a thing for Don) emailed Don an incriminating YouTube link.
At the end of last season Maggie goes on a rant complaining about how she is in love with her best friend's boyfriend while a "Sex in the City" tour bus looks on. Someone recorded the video and uploaded it to YouTube.
Surprisingly Don does not freak out or yell. He and Maggie don't get into a fight either. Don tells Maggie he will be at a hotel until she moves out.
Maybe Don is not upset because he had always known how Jim and Maggie feel about each other. Hopefully the reason Don is so calm is because he can now pursue the brilliant and beautiful economist Sloan Sabbith (Olivia Munn.)
Last season Sloan confessed to Don the reason she is still single is because he had never asked her out. Instantly mortified about what she said Sloan tells Don they can never speak again. This does not prove to be possible because Sloan is filling in for one of the anchors and Don is the EP.
The "News Night" team is also dealing with feelings of abandonment. Jim has decided to go on the road with the Romney campaign because he can't stand how awkward things are with Maggie. Following her "Sex and the City" outburst last season she and Jim kissed. Jim was on the bus learning about the show to make his girlfriend happy.
Jim is replaced by an Associate Producer from D.C. Jerry Dantana (Hamish Linklater) comes up to cover for Jim while he is away. The team is not too happy with this. The only people Jim told he was living were Mac and Neal.
Dantana is interested in reporting on drone strikes and so is Sloan. They convince Will to do an expert panel on the subject and the demeanor of the expert the new AP brought on the show unsettles the "News Night" crew.
Finally we get to the point of why the lawyer Rebecca Halliday is interviewing Will and Mac. The new AP is given a story by his expert. The expert tells Dantana he is about to give him a story that changes careers and ends presidencies.
The story Dantana is given has to do with an American operation known as "Genoa" but the specifics of the story are not revealed in episode one.
Returning to the present day Will and Mac explain that the story was too good to be true but they chased it believing their facts were right. As it turns out the story was wrong and the lawyer is trying to protect "News Night" from being sued and those involved with the broadcast from losing their jobs.
As season two progresses we will learn more about the bogus news story the team botched as well as the inner turmoil the group faces.
Season two did not begin with the same "OMG" moment season one did. Remember when Will yelled at a college student? Well now the student is Will's intern.
Episode one of season two seemed tamer than season one, but it was only the first episode so don't let that deter you from tuning in. The season premier was still good and if you saw it you know you'll keep watching. If you haven't seen "The Newsroom" give it a chance, the show is smarty, witty and funny as well as informative.
"The Newsroom" airs Sunday night's at 10pm on HBO.
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