The Newsroom: Season 2
Season 2 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of The Newsroom Season 1.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 2 Progress Shield
America, America
Jan 12, 2004
Jim is hired away by a hot US morning show in New York City where he bites off more than he can chew of the Big Apple and is soon escorted out of the country by the authorities.
Death 1, George 0
Jan 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.
Pushy Money Grubbing Cosmopolitan Racist
Jan 26, 2004
Has a terrorist infiltrated the newsroom? Ken Finkleman and his crew handle the issue of racism with their usual warmth and sensitivity.
An Enormous Waste of Time
Feb 2, 2004
A sniper kills again. A dog dies in the office, a power lunch goes wrong and George regrets ever having used the handicapped washroom.
Anchors Away
Feb 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.
One of Us
Feb 16, 2004
George hires a temp from an old established WASP family thinking that connections will pay off. When they don't, it's George that pays.
Never Read Symptoms
Mar 1, 2004
George dodges jury duty in an animal rights case and ends up entangled with a virus-infected monkey. Allan suffers from prostate cancer, Alzheimer's and a brain tumor.
The Fifty
Mar 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 princip
Slow Leak
Mar 15, 2004
Jim finds the perfect woman who is also heir to an $800 million fortune. This makes George insane with jealousy and leads to his arrest for stealing expensive cherries at a high-en
Reality Strikes
Mar 22, 2004
When a documentary film crew invades the newsroom, George keeps one eye on the camera and one eye on his back. Colm Feore guest stars.
Say Cheese
Apr 5, 2004
George tries to sell a brilliant idea for a cheese commercial to an ad agency brought in to rework the network news brand. Jim develops a unique form of anorexia nervosa.
The British Accent
Apr 12, 2004
George hustles a corporate paid vacation but his temporary replacement forces George to kill the trip and replace it with a tanning cream which leads to fears that he has developed
The Second Coming
Apr 19, 2004
George's failure of empathy when Alex gets dumped by his girlfriend causes Alex's attempted suicide. When George tries to rectify the situation, Alex fabricates a major news story,