We begin our viewing by seeing Ned looking at framed newspapers of different stories on the wall of the Toledo Truth Teller office. He is then talking with Mare once again, and then speaks with Esmerelda about being friends despite the tension previously. She seemingly agrees, and Ned invites her and all the other employees to the staff meeting he organized, where he questions everyone about their experience along with other topics. After the interview, Mare and Ned are trying to access stories from other sites, where they keep getting a subscribe notification, and Esmerelda reveals that she cut the wire program, to which Ned replies with slight frustration that they need it to gain access to stories to send to the print.

We get a little scene where the characters are brainstorming ideas for stories, which of course yields many terrible ideas. They then look at an app to see certain events to write about, and they do eventually find three things to write about. The employees are then seen messing up and just doing poorly at their job.

Nicole begins typing up a little letter to the readers, when Esmerelda buts in and asks her if Ned’s “making her do it” and if she could defrost the freezer. Even though Nicole knows it’s probably fine, she still obliges and walks away to follow her request, because she seems unwilling/afraid to resist or go against Esmerelda. Esmerelda begins making her little edits to the letter while Ned makes some phone calls to different places asking if they have anything noteworthy happening.

She invites Ned to a lunch with Ken and Marv, likely to try and gain his trust, when he gets a call back from Toledo PD, about a possible serial killer story. We then get check ins from the employees about how their stories went, and we find out what exactly Esmerelda wrote for the letter to try and sabotage. Ned gets a call once again from the Toledo PD again with more information about the killer, but it seems like the story might not play out the way they think. Ned then reads the fixed and revised letter to the readers for the paper, and we have an interview/ monologue of him reading it. We get another credit scene featuring Adelola, and Adam at their story location.  

This episode still wasn’t great, but it did have more going on compared to the last one. There still wasn’t much laughter evoked from it, even from scenes that were likely intended to make you audibly laugh, but it seemed like it had more entertainment put into it. Maybe the next episode will improve a little further (it doesn’t have to be grand, and it doesn’t have to be side-splitting humor, but maybe it will bring some form of laughter to the table). 

Rating 6.7/10