The Broken News [ S01 ] [ 2022 ]

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* The structure of “The Broken News” is a mixture of procedural and serialized storytelling. The procedural aspects allow for “The Broken News” to explore a wide range of topics, from a student suicide to a sexual harassment scandal involving a prominent actor, to corporate espionage, and even social causes. Credit must be given to the writers for how the procedural and serialized elements are tied together in a mostly coherent narrative. However, the show suffers from the lack of translation that most remakes of imports face. The student’s suicide might have been caused by his reticence in revealing his sexuality, but that is the extent of representation “The Broken News” is content to show. The exploration of why a youth minister is unable to be candid in an interview regarding a leaked MMS and instead is comfortable apologizing to the country in an interview with a rival news channel is an interesting subplot of the story. However, it is never effectively explored. Instead, dialogues like “She would never do this. She is a strong woman”) are littered throughout the script as an exploration of characters instead of true, deeper characterizations. Simple dialogues and a light touch on important issues are insufficient for a web series dealing with the impact of media on the current landscape of information delivery and sharing.