Plot hole: Will is telling Mac that the DOJ is being out-lawyered by a group of financial institutions, including Lehman and Countrywide, both of whom went out of business in 2008, well before the date of this episode on New Year's Eve 2011.
The Newsroom (2012)
1 plot hole - chronological order
Starring: Jeff Daniels, Emily Mortimer, Alison Pill, John Gallagher Jr.
Genres: Drama
Audio problem: In the Juilliard scene, the vocalist is singing the Schubert Ave Maria but the music on the piano is the other famous Ave Maria, the one set to music by J. S. Bach.
First Thing We Do, Let's Kill All the Lawyers - S2-E1
Rebecca Halliday: Fourteen months ago, you went on the air and called the Tea Party "the American Taliban."
Will McAvoy: I did.
Rebecca Halliday: And?
Will McAvoy: The Taliban resented it.
Trivia: When Neil is being interviewed by Rebecca Halliday he mentions a fictional country named Equatorial Kundu. This is the same fictional country mentioned in several different episodes of The West Wing, also by Aaron Sorkin.