Did You Miss Sorkin's Best? - A Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip Retrospective 

I love studio 60, just finished a re-watch earlier this year.

I love The West Wing. What I remember about The Newsroom is great. Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip is my favorite.

This being cancelled after one season was a terrible idea. I have always enjoyed Aaron Sorkin shows and this was up there with The West Wing and The Newsroom as his finest work. Fantastic show and cast.

I've long said that "Studio 60" suffered for being "too smart for television" and was "ahead of its time." It needed to be somewhere it could be binge-watched before that concept even existed. People needed the ability to look up some of the things that were being touched on that they might not know and understand more than just the superficial laugh that they were getting on the first viewing. And some episodes gain poignancy the more you view them. To this day, I still watch the Christmas episode every year and still tear up at the final notes of the trumpet.

"Sports Night" only lasted two seasons. And yeah, I love "Studio 60" as well. Very underrated.

I have to admit that I've never heard of Studio 60. I did watch 30 Rock (but roughly a decade after it had ended). You have definitely inspired me to watch Studio 60 now! Notes: That Will McAvoy rant from The Newsroom is the single best 4 minutes of television so far this century. I think that may forever be my favourite Jeff Daniels role. I completely forgot (or burned out that sector of my brain so I'd never recall it again) that Robertson said we'd be hit by an asteroid within 5 years of He Who Shall Not Be Named winning in 2020. I knew he was a wackadoo when he advanced the Satanic Panic about D&D, but wow.

I also loved Studio 60 and have been sad that it was so poorly received. I have rewatched it several times. The timing was awful and the expectations were unrealistic. I think I read that Sorkin even panned it, which I don’t understand. I can accept acknowledging that it missed the mark in some respects, but it should not have been panned by its creator. I adored all the principal actors, and also thought Timothy Bushfeld and Steven Weber were brilliant in their respective supporting roles. Many thanks for doing this review.

i love rewatching studio 60, but i definitely put it as my second lowest aaron sorkin show (i cant get over the laugh track on sports night, but the writing is great). to me the west wing and the newsroom were able to blend drama, comedy, and political social commentary very well, whereas studio 60 had a more difficult time balancing the political/social commentary because of the setting, as random policy blurbs and rants make more sense in TWW and the newsroom. he also didnt really seem to know how to engage with the sketches, and either shoehorned lazy/strained ideas into them, or used them as a soapbox (aaron sorkin is a great writer, but there is a reason he doesn't write sketches, and its because hes pretty bad at it). this isnt to say his political content is bad, just not as well integrated into studio 60. Great video, please keep it up!

I’ve heard about it but have never gotten around to it. I will consider watching the show now, seems fun

Aww this makes me miss Matthew Perry 😥

I loved this show! Excellent cast and brilliantly written but the fatal flaw was the premise. This show should have been the Newsroom before the Newsroom. The stories and topics covered no matter how brilliantly written or performed did not fit the premise of the inner workings of live comedy sketch show! Hostage crisis, network buyouts and high risk births are much better suited to say a Newsroom setting.

Wrong Steve Jobs movie