‘The Newsroom’ is back and it’s back stronger for Season 2. Aaron Sorkin’s HBO drama kicks off for its second season and the first episode “First Thing We Do, Let’s Kill All the Lawyers” is making a buzz - - a good sign for TV newsroom drama that disappointed when it debuted in June 2012.

The story by Ian Reichbach and Aaron Sorkin, the season premiere episode directed by Alan Poul began with a deposition of the drama’s big star, William Duncan "Will" McAvoy, played by Jeff Daniels.

Known to love deposition sequences like in Social Network and The West Wing, Sorkin opted to begin second season of The Newsroom, with exactly as that with McAvoy in the midst of it all. The season premiere features the main anchor and managing editor for “News Night” “facing a panel of lawyers, headed by Rebecca Halliday, played by a talented actress, Marcia Gay Harden.

The episode began with Halliday (Harden) poising a complicated question which according to The Age, answers would reveal “the plot for Season2.”

The show’s first episode reminded The Newsroom devoted fans of what they love about McAvoy - - the news personality who decided that he’s tired of delivering balanced news and went “to speak truth-to-stupid on air.”

“First thing we do” had McAvoy “showing off his ability to touch-type-read” - - - one set of skills not too common for newsroom people, let alone for some narcissistic anchorman who can actually do it. The first episode also allows McAvoy to display his skills “balancing smug self-satisfaction with witty charm,” as he was explaining the difference between a sail and a Swiss city.

A banter between McAvoy and Halliday had ended with the strong female lawyer saying: “F%$* me!” to which Will responded to with “Well ... Would one of you f—k Miss Halliday please?” to her group of lawyers. The scene showed much of what to expect from McAvoy for the rest of the season.

The age noted that this dichotomy is one thing that people love about ‘The Newsroom,’ showing “the spectrum the HBO drama canvases.”

The Age said, “Technical sailing terminology one moment, swearing like a sailor the next.”

The deposition was way in deep discussing why ACN pushed through running a story about the military operation called “Genoa” when the News Night associate producer Margaret “Maggie” Jordan. Played by Alison Pill, Maggie is featured in romance troubles as she has feelings for James "Jim" Harper (John Gallagher, Jr) despite being committed to Don Keefer (Thomas Sadoski). Maggie broke the ice in the deposition when Will introduced her to Halliday’s group of lawyers, whom Will got all wrong, breaking the legal tension the network is facing.

Maggie’s hair didn’t escape Halliday, who thinks loud like she does, asked when Maggie left: “What the hell happened to her hair?” she described mostly like “the girl with the dragon tattoo.”

Now, the news.

The Newsroom opened with better number and demographics in its second season premiere, beating its recorded number in its debut on June 24, 2012. As it hits the TV screen on July 14, Sunday, The Newsroom had recorded 2.2 million viewers, higher than the 2.1 million audience it raked in last year.

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