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The Newsroom

'Salvador Dali Mask!' And Other Things Women Were Wrong About On The Newsroom

Now with a trip to Queens for high jinks!

Tara Ariano
 
  • that when Don (Thomas Sadoski) cleared out of their apartment after dumping Maggie (Alison Pill), instead of sleeping there she should pack her shit immediately and bring it to the office where she could be discovered by Sloan (Olivia Munn)
  • what the various number of rings before a call goes to voicemail mean in terms of the call's recipient purposely dodging a call
  • highlighting a physical newspaper with a physical highlighter is an efficient means of doing journalistic business in 2011
  • signing off on the sketchy Genoa story as offered by the sketchy Jerry (Hamish Linklater)
  • that it's appropriate to derail a staff meeting with talk of a colleague's custom closet
  • that a trip to the laundromat merits a Foursquare check-in
  • that it isn't creepy to stalk someone on Foursquare for the purpose of ambushing her
  • "your YouTube post"
  • that writing a blog in the style of Sex & The City isn't S&TC fanfic
  • that Erica (Maria Dizzia), publisher of the controversial Maggie tour bus video, would want to boost her Twitter followers by tweeting something about the Chinese economy
  • maintaining deliberate ignorance not just about Occupy Wall Street but about what it's actually called
  • that Anonymous protesters at OWS are in Salvador Dali masks
  • that Lisa (Kelen Coleman) wouldn't find out about the video
  • Maggie, explaining to Lisa about the video: "I did one thing wrong."
  • not taking off a gold necklace before working out
  • pitching a story in the office gym
  • interrupting a pitch for girl talk about Will (Jeff Daniels)
  • receiving a report about a deadly attack on protesters in Kampala, and hiding said report from an executive producer so that a reporting trip to the city won't be cancelled
  • that a professional way of greeting a colleague is to dump a glass of scotch in his lap
  • flirting with a producer in the middle of a broadcast he's trying to produce...
  • ...after spending time in the recent past helping his ex deal with their breakup
Tara Ariano