Where There's a Will

Jeff Daniels as Will McAvoy

“The Newsroom’s” Will McAvoy is unaffable, contemptuous of ignorance, prickly, witty, dismissive, guarded, savagely eloquent, deeply sentimental, uncompromisingly professional, easily hurt by those he cares for and possessed of a Bruce Wayne-like compulsion to punch bullies right in the snoot.

In other words, he’s a character fully realized by Aaron Sorkin and Jeff Daniels.

At first glance, McAvoy is unlikeable, but finally he’s impossible to dislike — a characteristic well suited for the show’s romantic comedy elements.