The first day at the Stamford internship is unwatchable.

She stands timidly by the elevators asking if she’s in the right place while a giant sign hangs over the receptionist. She gushes (?) about having a picture ID for the first time (..lie? What about her college ID. There’s a whole bit with her picture where she isn’t looking). The run. THE RUN. She ran like Phoebe Buffay in the episode where Jess tells her he loves her, but here it’s this bizarre bunny skip I’ve never seen her do ever. I guess it’s supposed to be because her shoes are uncomfortable? Because she takes them OFF and walks barefoot behind Mitchum later and is holding them when she riffs her stats she has from stalking him. It would be weird and inappropriate if he was any CEO or even low level manager, but her boyfriend’s father adds another dimension to this. And it’s OK, if you forgot about the connection, she uses a landline in someone’s cube to call her boyfriend to complain and get more stalker facts immediately after this.

Mitchum was completely right to eventually say what he did, and he probably should have said it the first day. I get they’re trying to drive home her naïveté and inexperience, but she’s an Ivy League sophomore with college newsroom experience. And this paper isn’t exactly the New York Times. 

I don’t understand why no one bothers to tell her that memorizing Mitchum’s life story is not the kind of preparation that’s needed for this. And by the next week it’s supposed to be this major transformation that she’s able to stand next to him normally and hand him a coffee and wait to invited into a meeting. She couldn’t have started there???

WHAT is wrong with her in these scenes