Running Studio 60 thread (spoilers)

Nobody seems to be able to decide what the show should be about.

It's about the ins and outs of putting together a sketch-comedy show at the start, and everyone says it's trite and glorifying a Hollywood that America hates.

It's about intra-office romance, and everyone simply hates Amanda Peet and Sarah Paulson.

It starts dealing with current events, and everyone hates its politics.

Make up your minds, people.

 

If I recall, I think the main complaint about the "putting together a sketch comedy show" angle was that the show itself wasn't very good, a problem that has remained.

And if it's about intra-office romances, the female leads shouldn't A) Have absolutely zero chemistry with their male counterpart and B) Be unbelievably annoying and unrealistic. (Jordan's A, Harriet's B. Obviously.)

And if it's about current events, politics, the Christian right and the war in Afghanistan, then why bother with the comedy show at all?

The problem isn't -- or isn't only -- that this appears to be three or four shows shoehorned into one. It's that none of the shows are particularly interesting or very well done.

That's a pretty big problem to have.

 

Perhaps Sorkin can spin off a series about that law firm which deals with television networks and middle-eastern terrorists. I'd watch that.

 

This guy thinks fans should step up to save Studio 60. Of course, the set has already been scuttled ... .

http://publications.mediapost.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=Articles.showArticleHomePage&art_aid=62337

 

Man, some people will "fight the good fight" about anything.

 

How can anyone seriously write this sentence?

Politically relevant? Oh, Sorkin had the balls to take on the Christian Right, which has previously controlled all discourse inside and outside of Hollywood? He had the balls to become the first entertainer ever to speak out against war and the Bush administration?

Give me a fucking break. It's a show -- regrettably, not a very good one, despite the occasional bright spot -- and it's not "speaking truth to power."

Ridiculous.

 

Aparently the network lawyer negotiating with the terrorists is also a heart transplant coordinator (Heartland on TNT) in addition to being an aide to the vice-president on 24.

 

Sorkin is really unbelievable.

I had to rewind my DVR several times to transcribe all this:

 

Wonder if the last episode, next week, ends in a diner?

 

Just end this already.

Ugh.

 

I hope they pull the plug on the show.
I mean cancel the show over what D.L. Hughley said and his refusal to apologize.
That would be pretty cool, but I looked at what the Tivo said about next week's episode and even I as a fan, went "ugh."
And Mark McKinney was listed as co-writer. I wonder what he contributed.

 

Sometimes I wonder if I'm watching the same show as some of you folks. What I see is a show with dialogue that's crisper and better written than almost any other network show, that has original, intelligent characters, that deals with real-life social, political and cultural issues, that is funny at times and quite moving at others. I'm not saying that every episode is a gem, but almost every episode has contained some really, really good television. It's not everybody's cup of tea, as the ratings obviously prove, but people on here have used words like dreck and trash and ugh, which is ridiculous. At the very worst, S60 was an ambitious effort that fell short. I would call it a very good show that had some flaws. There's plenty of bad TV out there, but this show was not in that category.