The Newsroom season 2, episodes 1 through 3 now have official synopses which were just released by HBO.
Each of these synopses offer only light spoilers concerning where season 2 is headed.
The Newsroom season 2, episode 1 “First Thing We Do, Let’s Kill All the Lawyers”
“Will (Jeff Daniels) and the “News Night” staff are questioned by their lawyer about a story they’ve aired that’s become a network crisis. An on-air remark by Will has him pulled from 9/11 anniversary coverage. Jim (John Gallagher, Jr.) volunteers to cover for an embed reporter on the Romney campaign and Neal (Dev Patel) investigates the beginnings of Occupy Wall Street.”
The Newsroom season 2, episode 2 “The Genoa Tip”
“A tip on a story that will ultimately cripple the network starts to become more real. Mackenzie (Emily Mortimer) and Sloan (Olivia Munn) continue to push Will on drones as Don (Thomas Sadoski) urges Will to advocate for Troy Davis. Maggie (Alison Pill) is un-friended by her roommate, but gets the assignment she’s been begging for. Neal gets arrested on Wall Street.”
The Newsroom season 2, episode 3 “Willie Pete”
“Will continues his mission to civilize by telling Nina Howard (Hope Davis) the truth. A new witness to the Genoa story emerges on Twitter, and in New Hampshire, Jim’s efforts to have his questions answered continue to fall on deaf ears.”
Reading through these synopses, it looks like Jim will be struggling to become accepted into the traveling Romney press campaign while Will comes to his senses and tries to make peace with Nina. We’re excited to see Jim out on the political trailer, because it’ll make the show feel even more relevant than season 1’s real-news story lines.
Earlier today we shared an interview with creator Aaron Sorkin who revealed that The Newsroom season 2 will only be nine episodes.
The Newsroom premieres on Sunday, July 14 at 10 p.m. eastern/pacific on HBO.
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