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GOOD NIGHT AND GOOD F***

'Shipping Newsroom Season 1, Episode 2: 'News Night 2.0'

By Emily Yoshida at

Will & Mac

Mackenzie's nickname could just as easily be Will's, so I'm sure he gets a double kick out of the "Will + Mac 4 EVR" hearts he has scrawled on the inside of his Trapper Keeper. (It's been left off this list because, spoiler alert, but Newsroom so totally has a Will/Will endgame.) This week Will makes the horrible mistake in the first five minutes of the episode of specifically asking Mac not to tell anyone on staff about what *really* happened with their relationship, and inadvertently pioneered the dramatic device that will heretofore be known as "Chekhov's Staff E-mail List." Later on, the two share a more tender moment, as Thomas Newman's piano strains fade in and Mac gets real: "You were in love from the moment you met me. For two years you were the man of any woman's dreams. You just had these ways of ... doing things." When Aaron Sorkin characters can't properly complete a sentence, you know they are experiencing True Feelings.

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