Recap: 'The Newsroom,' Season 3, Episode 5 'Oh Shenandoah'

Here we are at the penultimate episode of "The Newsroom," and the theme that comes right to the fore, and has been an undercurrent all season long, is resistance.  And everyone at the ACN team, now answering to the demands of Lucas Pruit (BJ Novak), are beginning to chafe at what he calls journalism. And while Aaron Sorkin couldn't have known the media landscape in which this episode would arrive, "Oh Shenandoah," as imperfect as it is, resonates particularly in the wake of Chris Hughes' gutting of The New Republic, and Rolling Stone magazine's awful mishandling of the University of Virginia rape story, for which they had to issue an apology for their coverage.

Leaping ahead, the fifth episode of the sixth season finds Will McAvoy (Jeff Daniels) behind bars now for fifty-two days (and in what is probably the most unconvincing and cheapest looking prison set we've seen in some time). He's mostly been housed in a cell by himself, to avoid being partnered with...