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Michael and Us

PREVIEW - #589 - The X Factor (Newsroom Part 2)

Michael and Us

Luke Savage and Will Sloan

Tv & Film

4.6668 Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

In the second episode of THE NEWSROOM, MacKenzie lays out her theory of what a quality news broadcast should look like, and Will McAvoy presides over one of the worst broadcasts of his career. It's one of the Sorkinest Sorkin shows we've ever seen - it's "News Night 2.0" PATREON-EXCLUSIVE EPISODE - https://www.patreon.com/posts/589-x-factor-2-120060633

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0:00.0

They have to get the B team.

0:01.5

And the B team, as the show has it, is some militia guy, so an allusion to the reference

0:06.8

to John Stewart off the top of the episode.

0:09.0

It's some crazy professor, and this is such vent.

0:12.2

This is why Sorkin is peerless.

0:14.3

The episode establishes the reason he's crazy is because he works for an online university.

0:19.5

You all remember the running thing throughout Studio 60 where you have like the two kinds of Sorkin

0:24.5

demonologies.

0:25.4

One is like, you know, Buffalo Wild Wings, Applebee's, bad neighborhoods, whatever, the low.

0:32.0

And then the other type of Sorkin demonology, which is anything to do with online.

0:35.4

This is the ain't it cool news.com demonology that

0:39.1

Sorkin does. So this guy is a professor at Phoenix Online University and he's written

0:45.1

kooky anti-immigration books or something. And then the third. So that's father, son,

0:50.1

holy ghost in the in the Trinity is a runner up in the Miss USA pageant quote we've got a former Miss

0:58.4

Oklahoma who was second runner up in the Miss USA pageant this year she claimed she was

1:02.4

denied first runner up because of an answer she gave regarding legal immigration so

1:07.3

it's like a canceled Miss USA page and in the canon of of ditsy, Aaron Sork and Blonde's,

1:13.1

this is the type of woman that he hates the most. And I swear, we like literally, we've never

1:18.1

seen a blonde in his universe. I mean, it's, I don't even want to say it. It's like, yeah,

1:22.5

it's established earlier in the episode like, oh, these are the three kind of bad guests we could get. And I was so

1:28.3

gobsmacked at the end when like the episode actually goes through with this and you get to see

1:32.9

like Will McAvoy interview these people. And like all three of them are the most absurd caricatures of like,

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