This cast. This crew. This writing. The directing. Sorkin. Perry. Paulson. So many more. I can’t even list. Efin genius and it’s criminal that they cancelled it so soon.
Getting my Sorkin fix via Newsroom, but mostly what it's doing is making me wish Studio 60 was back on the air. I just went back and watched the entire season :D
This seems like the opening of a hip sketch comedy show that is so relevant and on the bleeding edge of now(then) it has the power to end dynasties and move popular political opinions toward a truly brighter future. The fifth estate really. If the real life MadTV had one fraction of the wit, wisdom, and grace of S60otSS and combined it with its actually funny jokes we wouldn’t have trump or war or whatever now I think.
I think this is perhaps the most essential quality of every Sorkin show (at least in tv)- he always makes an effort to tell us that he is doing something more than a simple tv show. That sometimes leads to self-rightousness which appears very unrealistic. I can live with it, because the quality of the dialouge and general plot is more important for me, and his is very good. Others, I suppose, can't.
Interesting little tidbit. Paulson's character was loosely based on Kristen Chenoweth - who Sorkin briefly dated. Amanda Peet's character was based on Jamie Tarses, the executive who ran ABC when Sorkin's first show Sports Night was on that network.
This scene embodies a reason not very many people liked this show. So the skit is about the SNL-like show itself--as though the whole world hangs on their producer being caught w/ cocaine and what evangelicals are saying about it. Then there's the line "august and famous studio." Again, it's like Sorkin has to go out of his way to tell us that what happens on this show is of utmost importance to the functioning of our society. I'm not hatin', I'm just sayin'.
That tempo tho. I could understand it if they were sight reading for the first time, but come on. YOU’RE IN L. A., JACK. If your cast can’t cut the parts at performance speed, hire some singers at scale who can.
Yeah, while the Pilot is absolutely brilliant, and the Cold Open is quite good, they started focussing too much on the romance instead on the inner workings of the show. Also Ayda Field and Camille Chen were far too under-utilized.
