The BEST episodes of The Newsroom season 2
Every episode of The Newsroom season 2, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Newsroom season 2!
George Findlay is the News Director of the local station in Toronto for "a major government controlled broadcast network". His life is complicated by three factors: he is completely self absorbed; most of the news stories don't happen they way or when he wants; and he functions in the Machiavellian bureaucracy of a government owned television network. Series II, after a brief hiatus the the Newsroom story continues.... George Findlay (Ken Finkleman) and his staff are back in the newsroom where pettiness and moral bankruptcy are taken to new depths. New faces, new phobias, new issues and Death haunt George as he maneuvers his way around the daily task of producing the news. Also this season, News Anchor Jim Walcott (Peter Keleghan) returns to brighten our day with moronic interviews with luminaries like Naomi Klein and Noam Chomsky .
#1 - Slow Leak
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 3/15/2004
George's jealousy gets him arrested.
#2 - Anchors Away
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/9/2004
George's dream date is just that: nothing more than a dream. The intelligent segment producer Karen dumbs herself down for sex and Jim makes a book deal.
#3 - Say Cheese
Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 4/5/2004
George tries to sell an idea for a cheese commercial; Jim develops a form of anorexia nervosa.
#4 - Never Read Symptoms
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 3/1/2004
George dodges jury duty in an animal rights case and ends up entangled with virus infected monkeys. Allen suffers from a brain tumor.
#5 - One of Us
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/16/2004
George hires a temp from an old established WASP family thinking that connections will pay off. They don't. George pays.
#6 - Reality Strikes
Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 3/22/2004
A film crew invades the newsroom, making George anxious.
#7 - The British Accent
Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 4/12/2004
George secretly cancels his trip.
#8 - The Fifty
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 3/8/2004
An argument between George and Alex over finding a $50 bill results in Alex losing his job on principle and then buying it back from George for a considerable sum ... also on principle.
#9 - An Enormous Waste of Time
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 2/2/2004
A sniper kills again. A dog dies in the office. A power lunch goes wrong. And George regrets ever using the handicapped washroom.
#10 - The Second Coming
Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 4/19/2004
Alex attempts suicide after being dumped by his girlfriend.
#11 - Death 1, George 0
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/19/2004
George fails a Kafkaesque job evaluation in ways he never could have imagined. A valued veteran newsroom employee dies, George's empathy is qualified.
#12 - Pushy, Money-Grubbing, Cosmopolitan Racist
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/26/2004
Racism infiltrates the newsroom.
#13 - America, America
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/12/2004
Jim is hired by a morning show in New York.