Running Studio 60 thread (spoilers)

What is the breaking news that gets them pre-empted next week?

 

that was a highly entertaining episode. Busfield's response to the cop going "Are there any machines plugged in here" was outstanding.

Nice job, NBC, pissing away another good show.

 

I wish I could concur that it was a good show.

It wanted to be a good show. It was (maybe) a good idea for a show.

And the first three minutes kicked ass.

We got spoiled, I reckon, by the best of Sorkin's work on West Wing.

 

The first three minutes tonight? Or the first three minutes back in Sept?

 

Sorry. The first three minutes of the very first show.

It's a bit more complicated than that, though. I really liked the end of the Christmas show, even though you could see it coming a half-mile away. Same with the 4 a.m. Miracle.

 

Do you still DVR it out of hope it finds that potential?

I agree it hasn't been as good as the first three minutes, but what could be? It's still been a very, very good show, even as it's taken a drastic shift in midstream in a last-second attempt to save it from the axe.

 

I've enjoyed it generally. Even the wrong turn after the Amanda Peet preganancy worked for me on some level or other.

And, as can be pointed out, it was better than so much of the other stuff that's on.

 

The Peet-Whitford thing is/was the worst part of the show in my opinion. I never believed they could be together. It felt authentic when it was Whitfield doggedly and blindly pursuing Peet...it FELT like those relationships where someone just exploits the affections of another and relishes in the attention even though he/she has no interest at all in a relationship. It really worked at that level.

But when they got together, and in such sudden fashion at the end of the rooftop episode--she'd just spent hours telling him it was never going to work hey wait it'll work!--it felt like the ol' square peg in a round hole.

Really, I can picture the NBC dweebs bullying Sorkin into it as they told him to turn the show into a romantic comedy.

 

The rendition of "O Holy Night" from the Christmas episode will give me goosebumps during the holidays for years to come.

 

Or Revenge of the Nerds!

I DVR'd it last night, but haven't wached it yet. Sucks there are only six more episdoes. I think this is a show that had potential. Sportsnight wasn't given much of a chance either, and I loved that show.

 

imo, "studio 60" was done in by inevitable comparisons to "west wing," the best-written drama in network tv history. "studio 60" was still superior to 90 percent of the crap on network tv today, but sorkin couldn't duplicate "ww" and was spanked for it.

our loss.

 

That episode was totally crap. No Whitford, Perry or Peete. What did they do, edit out the scenes involving those people so they didn't have to pay them? It was awful. I couldn't even watch the whole thing.