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Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip saved my Television.
Holy shit, how did this show get on the air?
When Sports Night was canceled I actually saw my Television screen cry. Actual tears streamed from the top of my cable box to the bottom of my Television set. I could empathize with my T.V. It was as though my T.V. Had lost its purpose.
It became obsolete.
Without good programming a television set is just a box with tubes and wires.
Aaron Sorkin, the creator of Sports Night then came back with a Television show about the ongoings at the White House. Even though I was a huge fan of Mr. Sorkin's work I didn't even give The West Wing a chance.
I felt as though our real president was entertainment enough.
So when I heard about his new show,Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip,I became excited. From what I had read, it was a Television show about a Television show and well that is what Sports Night was all about.
Well.......
The first 10 minutes won me over. The opening monologue was just stunning. There is no better word to describe it than stunning. I kept asking myself the same question over and over. How did this get on the air?
How did this monologue get on the air?
We live in a time where live television is delayed. Where shows are screened over and over and exhaustedly tested. Where monkeys in suits sit in a room pushing censorship buttons at random for $10 an hour.
How this show criticized everything that is wrong with Television on its premier night and all within the first 10 minutes is beyond me.
And it makes me excited.
I needed this show to have been longer. I needed more. I wanted another hour.
I wanted to get to know these characters better and I needed more of that great dialog.
That dialog was feeding my starved attention span. It was feeding me entertainment with every word.
Simply put
The dialog killed and the art direction was inspired. It made it seem as though the show was being shot in some swanky Vegas lounge and not in some dingy studio.
It made me excited about television again.
All of this brought to you by the same guy who just a couple of years ago was stopped at an airport for smuggling a personal stash of hallucinogenic mushrooms.
If this is the kind of writing that gets accomplished while on mushrooms then we should all be seeing colors.
Nbc must really be hurting for talent if it lets Mr.Sorkin get away with making fun of them on their own airwaves. Every other line from the opening monologue was a jab at Nbc programming.
It caught my attention.
This was inspired Television.
And all of this brought to you by the network that spoon feeds us Fear Factor once a week.
