Studio 60 On the Sunset Strip
Well, I am sold on that. Really, Aaron Sorkin's writing is light years ahead of most everyone on TV which is why even when it isn't clicking or isn't perfect, it (the writing) still feels so much better than what we as viewers are used to (and I think it is why the actors are so much better on his shows than they are on most other programs).
Studio 60 On the Sunset Strip isn't perfect, but it is a damn nice return for fans of good writing and intelligent television, which sadly is far and few between. And, if more people turn in for the laugh riot of CSI:Miami I will know the human race deserves everything which happens to it, namely bad shit.
The opening Network inspired monologue is just one of the many greta parts of the show, but it is also probably the best statement of what Sorking is trying to do:
This isn't gonna be a very good show tonight and I think you show change the channel.
You should change the channel right now, or better yet turn off the TV.
No, I know it seems like this is supposed to be funny, but tomorrow you're gonna find out it wasn't and I'll have been fired by then. This isn't supposed--this isn't a sketch.
This show used to be cutting edge political and social satire, but it's gotten lobotomized by a candy-ass broadcast network hell-bent on doing nothing that might challenge their audience.
We were about to do a sketch you've already seen 500 times. Yes, no one's gonna confuse George Bush with George Plimpton, we get it. We're all being lobotomized by the country's most influential industry which has thrown in the towel on any endeavor that does not include the courting of 12-year-old boys.
And not event the smart 12-year-olds, the stupid ones, the idiots, of which there are plenty thanks in no small part to this network. So change the channel, turn off the TV. Do it right now.
There's always been a struggle between art and commerce, but now I'm telling you art is getting is ass kicked, and it's making us mean, and it's making us bitchy, and it's making us cheap punks and that's not who we are.
We're eating worms for money, "Who Wants to Screw My Sister", guys are getting killed in a war that's got theme music and a logo. That remote in your hand is a crack pipe
And it's not even good pornography. They're just this side of snuff films, and friends, that's what's next 'cause that's all that's left.
And the two things that make them scared gutless are the FCC and every psycho-religious cult that gets positively horny at the very mention of a boycott.
These are the people they're afraid of, this prissy, feckless, off-the-charts greed-filled whorehouse of a network you're watching. This thoroughly unpatriotic...
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Warren Ellis has already given a critical review of the show (and by critical I am using the more academic turn in that Ellis actually thought about what he saw and what he read and made intelligent comments and arguments for his points).
You can read his first comment here.
And his second comment here.
Studio 60 On the Sunset Strip isn't perfect, but it is a damn nice return for fans of good writing and intelligent television, which sadly is far and few between. And, if more people turn in for the laugh riot of CSI:Miami I will know the human race deserves everything which happens to it, namely bad shit.
The opening Network inspired monologue is just one of the many greta parts of the show, but it is also probably the best statement of what Sorking is trying to do:
This isn't gonna be a very good show tonight and I think you show change the channel.
You should change the channel right now, or better yet turn off the TV.
No, I know it seems like this is supposed to be funny, but tomorrow you're gonna find out it wasn't and I'll have been fired by then. This isn't supposed--this isn't a sketch.
This show used to be cutting edge political and social satire, but it's gotten lobotomized by a candy-ass broadcast network hell-bent on doing nothing that might challenge their audience.
We were about to do a sketch you've already seen 500 times. Yes, no one's gonna confuse George Bush with George Plimpton, we get it. We're all being lobotomized by the country's most influential industry which has thrown in the towel on any endeavor that does not include the courting of 12-year-old boys.
And not event the smart 12-year-olds, the stupid ones, the idiots, of which there are plenty thanks in no small part to this network. So change the channel, turn off the TV. Do it right now.
There's always been a struggle between art and commerce, but now I'm telling you art is getting is ass kicked, and it's making us mean, and it's making us bitchy, and it's making us cheap punks and that's not who we are.
We're eating worms for money, "Who Wants to Screw My Sister", guys are getting killed in a war that's got theme music and a logo. That remote in your hand is a crack pipe
And it's not even good pornography. They're just this side of snuff films, and friends, that's what's next 'cause that's all that's left.
And the two things that make them scared gutless are the FCC and every psycho-religious cult that gets positively horny at the very mention of a boycott.
These are the people they're afraid of, this prissy, feckless, off-the-charts greed-filled whorehouse of a network you're watching. This thoroughly unpatriotic...
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Warren Ellis has already given a critical review of the show (and by critical I am using the more academic turn in that Ellis actually thought about what he saw and what he read and made intelligent comments and arguments for his points).
You can read his first comment here.
And his second comment here.
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