Running Studio 60 thread (spoilers)

When exactly is this show over (I mean the last air date)?

 

I'm watching it now on my DVR...I just heard Danny Tripp trot out the ol' "You know who I am" around the 27-minute mark. Nice to see Sorkin's characters are still as smug and entitled as the man himself.

And, once again, after however many episodes there've been, it's the same old show: Sorkin gets to win all the arguments because he gets to write both sides' lines. Nice work if you can get it, I guess.

And Sorkin's ignorant potshots at the press show how much his ego has taken over since the early days of the West Wing, when he made Danny Concannon into a likeable, well-rounded character. Now, the press is a faceless, baying, hateful mob.

Ugh.

 

Heh. I think the rat pack at the end of last night's show sets up things rather nicely.

 

I like that they saved Harriet's latest Holly Hunter impersonation for a 2001 flashback, though I'm pretty sure it was still dated even then.

I really like this show, would certainly watch it if they kept it around. The politics are coming on a little thick lately, but this last show made me remember how amazingly shiny/happy/optimistic things were spun going into this war. Really like Mark McKinney's character -- really deep for a guy who gets three minutes of screen time a week. I will say the "Proof of Life" ransom arc with the network lawyer who has eight-figure mercenaries on speed dial is a bit much.

 

But you've got to remember - the network lawyers is fresh from a gig where she helped the Russians spy on the US in 24

 

So, in order to get a job with Gage Whitney as an employment lawyer, you need to:

1) Be an expert on ex-CIA types involved in recovering victims of kidnapping; and

2) Be an expert on pre-natal complications.

 

Didn't seem so inconceivable to me. She's a corporate lawyer, makes sense she would be brought in to see if a company was breaking any laws in dealing with a Trask-like firm on paying ransom to foreign body. Also, a relative (her sister, I think she said?) had the same medical condition. Not a huge reach.

 

But she's a corporate lawyer who was brought in to handle a sex-discrimination lawsuit, right? I'd think "K&R" would be a different division of the firm. Y'know, in a world where things made sense.

 

Yes, because lawyers never ever deal with more than one kind of case. C'mon, MW.

 

Well, lawyers at firms that large do tend to specialize, but they certainly would know who to call at a firm with such far-reaching real-world contacts. It's not like it would be a secret within the firm.

That she'd talk about it outside the firm shows me she has a thing for Matt.


(not like that's a secret)

 

There's no point in suggesting posters go back and take a look at how carefully they're dissecting the reality of various scenes ... is there?

I mean, anal-retentiveness comes to mind ...

 

Yeah! Amen!

And, by the way, is anal-retentiveness supposed to be hyphenated??