Review of Amen

The Newsroom: Amen (2012)
Season 1, Episode 5
8/10
1.5 is ***
24 July 2012
Warning: Spoilers
Good episode, but not nearly as good as the previous ones. Why? In news reporting, you're supposed to stick to the facts and that should have been the case for Amen.

We begin on a high note of a major story of the day. Demonstrations breaking out in Egypt with Hosne Mburaka's subsequent resignation following. We also hear about Wisconsin school teachers and other interesting events of the day.

The episode begins to go down in quality and starts evolving more as if we were engaging in slapstick comedy. A ton of accidents befall the workers at the station with doors being slammed on one guy once and a reporter being mugged while out in the field.

MacKenzie soon learns that her boyfriend has been using her in order to run for Congress. This in itself could have been used as an episode alone.
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