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Though set in the ’80s, “The Newsreader” feels timely, especially in the way it portrays journalists wanting to do the right thing when it comes to holding power to account, only to be overruled by corporate bosses. It’s also a show attuned to the smallest details of an actor’s performance. .... Even the show’s writing is delicious.
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If this series feels a shade jerkier than the first – sometimes it’s as if it doesn’t know what to do with Helen and Dale as a couple – it remains classy, laser-focused and like nothing else on the box.
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I have watched the whole series and, apart from one jump-the-shark moment for Helen, it is a treat.
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Ravenous story-hound Helen remains the show’s moral and magnetic core – so much so that she often occludes Reid’s Dale.