Studio Sucky
I had this huge, convoluted post about exactly why Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip sucks but Safari crashed before I could publish. Afterwards I found this post which does a much better job than I could do. And now it looks like I don't have to do my bit to kill this show. It's pretty much dead already. I would like to add a link to last Monday's episode, the Wrap Party which you can watch online for a few more days. I think part three contains the scene where any last bit of hope that this series can be salvaged evaporates. But there's tons of bad TV packed into this little episode so enjoy every pretentious, obnoxious, dull minute. And next time you say to yourself, "I wish there were more smart, well-written TV shows that respected my intelligence" think of this show. Then think back to Married With Children and The A-Team and remind yourself what TV is for.
posted by E at 10:15 PM
4 Comments:
really wanted to like this show. love amanda peet and felt like i missed out on west wing, with all the emmys and endless critical praise. but this last ep finally sealed the deal for me. the whole excursion to the comedy club to see the black comic was just pitiful, pitiful, pitiful.
Pitiful cubed is right. I too missed out on the supposedly brilliant first two seasons of the West Wing and have only scene a few scattered scenes of SportsNight. I wanted to see what the Sorkin mojo was all about. The cast is brilliant. None of this disaster is there fault. The writing is just shit. If they want to save this show, they'd fire it's creator and start over.
The first four seasons of the West Wing are incredible (especially #2). I own all 4, so borrow them when you are down here. Studio 60 sucks. The Onion had a great article about it; "Studio 60 was better when it first came out". The show started off as mediocre (but I had such high hopes!!!!), and has since morphed into a pile of horse shit. I have to disagree with you about the casting. The writing is worse, and the writing is the reason for the show's failure, but besides Matthew Perry, I think there were some really questionable casting decisions. It's interesting how here in Hollywood no one wants to admit that the show is a disaster. Sorkin is akin to a God, and criticizing the show is blashpemous. Sudio 60 is awful.
I got that vibe about Sorkin's divinity when I visited LA. I remember seeing the pilot on a bootlegged DVD from a friend of a friend down in LA and he said it was the new Aaron Sorkin/Thomas Schlamme show like I was supposed to know who the fuck Thomas Schlamme was. Oh, he invented the walk-and-talk? Big fucking deal. If I recall correctly Riker and Picard were chatting and stomping around the Starship Enterprise before West Wing was even on the air.
The show really does have an incredible Emperor-has-no-clothes effect on people. I read duped TV critics who are trying to spin it like it's NBC or The Idiotic American Public's fault that the show is getting cancelled. No. It's a badly written, ill-concieved, boring piece of crap no matter how many show-offy smarty-pants moments it has. It promises soooo much and delivers soooo little. It deserves to die. Or get better. It's salvageable if they'd fire the creator and write the Christian chick out of the show.
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