The Social Reckoning Review: Accountability Needs a Smile Coach
Mark Zuckerberg needs help smiling for Congress. His advisers can prepare answers, choose a tie, and coach his expression, but...
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Mark Zuckerberg needs help smiling for Congress. His advisers can prepare answers, choose a tie, and coach his expression, but Jeremy Strong makes the last task look particularly difficult. During the mock hearing in Aaron Sorkin’s The Social Reckoning, crisis manager Raya, played by Wunmi Mosaku, tries to supply the warmth her employer cannot summon. Bill Burr’s Charlie interrupts the preparation with objections to Facebook’s conduct. The scene gives corporate evasion a practical, faintly ridiculous form: employees must teach their boss how accountability ought to look. Strong’s slow speech and restricted movement make these exchanges amusing without suggesting that Zuckerberg...

Professor Kang offers Im Yoo-jin an appealing account of academic life: work hard, continue studying, and recognition will follow. She might even become Kang’s successor. Between Steps gives this encouragement a revealing companion scene, a magazine shoot featuring knitted hats intended for charity. Asked to move because her face will fall into the page fold, Kang refuses. Public service evidently needs a flattering layout. The joke concerns the professor’s vanity, but it also establishes how carefully she manages the image of her generosity before Yoo-jin discovers its conditions. Those conditions become explicit after a departmental dinner. Yoo-jin hears her friend...

Maggie Bell gets her missing partner back at gunpoint, which is an awkward way to resume a working relationship. The Season 9 premiere of FBI, “Rendition,” puts a masked OA Zidan inside a laboratory raid, has him fight Maggie’s replacement partner, then lets her confront him before rewinding eight hours. The hook works through recognition: viewers know whose face is under the mask, while Maggie still has to discover it. The episode has promised a reunion and arranged for almost everyone present to need it to go badly. Rewinding creates a pacing obligation. The investigation into murdered travel vlogger Clara...

Sam Hanna keeps working while his phone rings in Dubai. The overseas assignment occupies his attention; the calls belong to someone who will be dead before he responds. For an agent whose competence has been established across fourteen seasons of NCIS: Los Angeles, this is an effective disturbance of the heroic routine. Professional usefulness and personal availability have slipped apart. The pilot of NCIS: New York brings him home through that failure, making the return to familiar ground an uncomfortable encounter with an obligation he missed. The death, apparently a suicide, falls within NCIS jurisdiction because the victim was a...

Cris pulls a metal rod out of Archie’s chest, and he survives. For her, this is the point at which his account of being bitten by the supermarket owner becomes impossible to dismiss. For I Would Rather Die, it establishes a useful distinction: Archie’s body has changed, but neither teenager understands what those changes permit. The premiere introduces its supernatural rules through something the characters must deal with immediately. They have an injury that should have killed him, a frightened boy who remains conscious, and no reliable explanation. The return to the supermarket complicates that discovery. When the infected Mr...

Matt Shade and Angie Everett struggle to find a date-night subject that isn’t their son. Having moved from Toronto to Victoria and settled into marriage and parenthood, the detectives of Private Eyes West Coast can arrange an evening together without quite escaping the nursery. It’s an affectionate predicament, and a useful starting point for this continuation. They still enjoy each other’s company. The difficulty is finding something to share beyond the daily business of raising Dex, especially when Matt seems considerably happier with that routine than Angie does. Angie has already been squeezing investigative stories into parent-and-child gatherings, where they...
Mark Zuckerberg needs help smiling for Congress. His advisers can prepare answers, choose a tie, and coach his expression, but...
Read moreDetailsMaggie Bell gets her missing partner back at gunpoint, which is an awkward way to resume a working relationship. The...
Read moreDetailsSam Hanna keeps working while his phone rings in Dubai. The overseas assignment occupies his attention; the calls belong to...
Read moreDetailsCris pulls a metal rod out of Archie’s chest, and he survives. For her, this is the point at which...
Read moreDetailsMatt Shade and Angie Everett struggle to find a date-night subject that isn’t their son. Having moved from Toronto to...
Read moreDetailsGenre distributor The Coven has bought worldwide rights to "The Only One," an Australian slasher film whose killer picks off the heroine's ex-boyfriends, ahead of its world premiere at the Brooklyn Horror Film Festival this month, Deadline reports. The movie marks the directing debut of Michael Schwarz, who previously worked...
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Read moreMark Zuckerberg needs help smiling for Congress. His advisers can prepare answers, choose a tie, and coach his expression, but Jeremy Strong makes the last task look particularly difficult. During...
Professor Kang offers Im Yoo-jin an appealing account of academic life: work hard, continue studying, and recognition will follow. She might even become Kang’s successor. Between Steps gives this encouragement...
Maggie Bell gets her missing partner back at gunpoint, which is an awkward way to resume a working relationship. The Season 9 premiere of FBI, “Rendition,” puts a masked OA...
Sam Hanna keeps working while his phone rings in Dubai. The overseas assignment occupies his attention; the calls belong to someone who will be dead before he responds. For an...
Cris pulls a metal rod out of Archie’s chest, and he survives. For her, this is the point at which his account of being bitten by the supermarket owner becomes...
Matt Shade and Angie Everett struggle to find a date-night subject that isn’t their son. Having moved from Toronto to Victoria and settled into marriage and parenthood, the detectives of...
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Returning to the same conversation can feel surprisingly exciting when you have something new to ask. In The Posthumous Investigation,...
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