Tony award-winning actress Marcia Gay Harden is reported to be replacing Rosemarie DeWitt in season 2 of Aaron Sorkin’s The Newsroom.
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When tackling such a tough political and environmental issue as fracking, it can be difficult for a film to avoid going overboard with its message. Promised Land does a solid job of staying subtle on its obvious stance on fracking for the majority of the film, only to succumb to a series of narrative decisions that sabotages the solid work preceding it.