Review Mark Harrison 27 Aug 2013 - 10:44
The Newsroom's ongoing season two arc culminates in some damn good television this week. Here's Mark's review of Red Team III
This review contains spoilers.
2.7 Red Team III
“I thought about having you killed. Then I thought, what does Charlie Skinner fear more than death?”
Over the last few weeks, I've questioned Aaron Sorkin's wisdom in revealing right at the top of The Newsroom's second season that its main characters were headed for disaster. There's been six episodes' worth of investigation of Operation Genoa, and evidence to suggest that the story could be true, and the Us military might really have committed war crimes during an extraction.
In the seventh episode, Red Team III, we finally start to see how it could never really have been true, and not for nothing, but that makes for far more compelling viewing. In this episode,...
The Newsroom's ongoing season two arc culminates in some damn good television this week. Here's Mark's review of Red Team III
This review contains spoilers.
2.7 Red Team III
“I thought about having you killed. Then I thought, what does Charlie Skinner fear more than death?”
Over the last few weeks, I've questioned Aaron Sorkin's wisdom in revealing right at the top of The Newsroom's second season that its main characters were headed for disaster. There's been six episodes' worth of investigation of Operation Genoa, and evidence to suggest that the story could be true, and the Us military might really have committed war crimes during an extraction.
In the seventh episode, Red Team III, we finally start to see how it could never really have been true, and not for nothing, but that makes for far more compelling viewing. In this episode,...
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