Running Studio 60 thread (spoilers)

Gutter, I'm trying to figure out who someone was talking about re: your sig.

What a description.

 

High Fidelity ... when Dick is describing Marie DeSalle to Rob.

 

I saw that movie but probably coked out and don't remember.

 

Studio 60 seems to have a commerical every 6 minutes. It's making me nuts

 

Sarah Paulson, as someone once said in the Roosevelt Room, does not bring the funny.

 

My apologies if this has already been dealt with in this thread -- but the only thing that bothers me about the show so far is that it's preachy. Now, of course, that's to be expected coming from Sorkin. We know this. Thing is, it worked on West Wing ... it was the president, it was running the country. You want the president and the people around him to be passionate. But it doesn't work when you're watching people get worked into a lather over what the numbers look like in the 30-54 demographic -- or whatever it is. It's a freakn' TV show. It's most definitely not running the country. Yes, the principles involved are important -- free speech, the freedom to do sharp-edged satire that makes people uncomfortable. But I just have trouble buying into the idea of seeing it presented as life and death.

Sports Night got preachy sometimes too, but most of the time what was really important to those characters was everything but what happened on their show. That's what made it work ... hopefully that's the direction Studio 60 goes too. Still early ... I figure it probably will.

 

But Hollywood TV types do think they run the country ...

 

Whaddya mean they're losing them? I thought they held 109 percent of their audience this week.

 

And the TV show they're worked up about isn't even in prime time. And it's on a friggin' Friday night.

That's shaky to me.

The reality is - a Friday night sketch show would be a tiny blip on the radars of the Amanda Peets and Steven Webers of the world. That, plus at least one of them, Peet or Weber, would be based in New York.

Anybody else keep forgetting they're not in New York?

Oh well - I've given it a fair chance. From now on, it moves to the 'if I happen to catch it' category.

For y'all's sake, I hope it lives.

 

Luggie,

Why do you hate America?

 

;D The sad thing is, Aaron Sorkin and I would probably get along great. His agendas perfectly jibe with my views of both television and politics.

But this show is a very expensive piece of crap.

 

Couldn't have said it better myself.