Peter Bart: ‘She Said’ Team Should Have Investigated Hiring Oscar-Winning ‘Spotlight’ Writer
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deadline.comTom McCarthy is a very clever writer who has succeeded in drawing audiences to a difficult genre: thrillers about newspapers.
He won an Original Screenplay Oscar for Spotlight, made in 2015, was a riveting movie about how the Boston Globe exposed a cover-up involving a defrocked priest.
His new ABC series Alaska Daily focuses on a hot New York journalist (Hilary Swank) who is exiled into covering crime in Anchorage.
McCarthy is artful in avoiding a major trap of the genre: Newsmen are not star material (not even Woodward and Bernstein). Much of their work is consumed by ponderous procedurals.
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