Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip

[lemuralley]

Yeah, I expected something super-incredible after those ads kept running, but I'll be damned if I saw anything "shocking." What's-her-name's Juliette Lewis impersonation was shockingly painful, if that counts.

I want to like this show. I really, really do. I like Bradley Whitford and I think he and Matthew Perry are starting to click. It's just the rest of the cast that's making me want to jab sporks in my eyes. Also, the funny needs to be brought way harder because right now it's very predictable and cringe-worthy. I can't get into this thing because all I can think is, "They're going to eventually get Matt and Harry back together, and then the suckitude will just make this show absolutely implode." I can't STAND Harry and cannot figure out for the life of me why we, the audience, are supposed to find her so brilliant an actress. Right now I'm a Matt/Anybody But Harriet shipper.

[plush]

So I didn't miss anything either for skipping this episode? I watched the first 3 episodes and my enthusiasm kept dropping with each passing week. I was really anticipating something funny even though I haven't watched a single episode of WW. It was probably the ads, the good reviews and the "feeling" I got when I watched the commercials. Now it just feels dull and boring. It's not funny, I don't care about any of characters and they.talk.too.damn.fast.

I agree that Harriet and Matt make a boring couple. They need to develop Jeannie's character a little more and pair her up with Matt (that would have been much more interesting couple imo), and they have to hook up Jordan with either Jack or Danny (I much prefer it with Jack). I don't think I'll be seeing any good jokes in this show so at least they can spice it up with some relationship drama.

[Binky]

Right now I'm a Matt/Anybody But Harriet shipper.

Yeah. I don't see why Matt is supposed to be pyscho-obsessive over her. She's mostly annoying and ... annoying.

I think I'd like Matt/Jeannie.

And I think that Whitford and Weber eat Amanda Peet's feeble acting attempts like cheerios, so that's just a bad idea.

I love Weber. His only addition to the episode was screaming over a phone line and he still stole the scene from Peet.

The part where I don't even like Harry let alone understand why Matt loves her, and my continued feeling that Peet is woefully miscast are my only reservations.

That and they need to ratchet up the drama or actually make the funny funny. Right now it's just kind of...blah. Not a dramedy. A blahma.

[Atreides]

I want to really like this show and I'll stick with it for the time being but it's really overbearing and smug. Memo to Aaron Sorkin - just write a good show without pounding us over the head about how good it is and how it'll save network television.

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I thought that this episode hung together well---:::snerk----hung::::.

And that long, long, long, loooooo................ng, looooooooo........ng exposition and dialogue and jokes and the kitchen sink filled with Harriet's blonde dye works walk with Matt and that other writer throughout the studio set----that was a joke, right? Walkin' and Talkin'!

And I also started wonderin', does the Cue Card guy/gal trot backwards before them? Or is there a golf cart with the Cue Card guy/gal running silently:::hic:::before them? Or does the Cue Card guy/gal ride an empty donkey and flap the lines before them over the donkey's tail?

[lemuralley]

chatchien said:

Or does the Cue Card guy/gal ride an empty donkey and flap the lines before them over the donkey's tail?

Well, I think imagining this is going to help make the episodes a lot more entertaining for me. Thanks, chatchien!

[huntergrayson]

Some critic reported that he's never seen more people trying *very hard* to convince themselves that they like a show than Studio 60. And yeah. I feel like I'm giving the show lots of chances and putting a huge amount of effort in but not getting enough back.

Also, Aaron? Just fucking stop focusing on proving your intellectual street cred what with Gilbert & Sullivan, commedia del arte and now Strindberg (!?) name-dropping and just try BEING FUNNY. Isla Fisher is fricking classically trained in commedia del arte but she didn't spend all of Wedding Crashers shouting out that fact...instead she, you know, made us laugh.

Including a joke about how no one remembers or cares about Juliette Lewis but the sketch is still funny *doesn't* justify how painful irrelevant it is...or make it funny.

"Nice rack"? Wow, so Danny is smug and sexist. How charming. And on that note, could you please stop shoving your wife's rack in my face, Schlamme?

I can't believe that the behind-the-scenes people think the audience would even care about this kind of thing. Just issue a press statement the next day rather than talking time out to deliver yet another self-important tirade/lecture.

I'm actually growing to like Jordan more and more. She's written as too superhuman and flawless but I no longer care.

I guess I'm in for next week because Lauren Graham is there. And she's both good at talking fast and getting along with Matthew Perry.

I enjoyed seeing Dawn (from the Office UK) for her brief two seconds of being yelled at.

[CAgirl]

I keep watching this show because I keep thinking that as soon as I stop watching it, it'll start to get good. So far, I don't like it very much. I haven't laughed one single time and I'm not caring about Matt and Harriet or the show within the show. I think one more episode for me and that's it.

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Meh, I already like 30 Rock more (not that the two are comparable, really). It's more manic and, hey, Alec Baldwin can't seem to get off my Hit-That List. (I said it.) Also, you're reminded that Tina Fey is funny and clever by watching the show. Sorkin practically tells you he's funny and clever, which is... so not-clever and so not-funny, too.

[indygirl]

Holy shit! It's Sting.