The risible trailer for the second season of Aaron Sorkin’s *The Newsroom*, which begins Sunday night on HBO, had news anchor Will McAvoy (Jeff Daniels) wandering through the desert. Trudging past Joshua tress, vultures circling in the sky, McAvoy came upon his colleagues in various states of frustration: Sloan Sabbith (Olivia Munn) tossed a headset into the sand; Neal Sampat (Dev Patel) slammed a cellphone into the dirt; Mackenzie McHale (Emily Mortimer) nuzzled up to Will and then disappeared. As the music swelled—not Coldplay, but close—Will surmounted a slope only to see miles more desert laid out before him. He staggered toward a television set resting on the ground, his colleagues filing in behind him, all bathed in the machine’s eerie, flickering light. If one were hoping the new season of The Newsroom would be less pompous, smug, or self-satisfied than the last, here, even before it aired was the answer: You know who else wandered through the desert?
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