Anyone watched it?
I'm about 8 episodes in and its brilliant. Written by the guy that wrote West Wing.
I'm about 8 episodes in and its brilliant. Written by the guy that wrote West Wing.
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
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I really liked it(I'm a huge West Wing fan).
Don;t know if you're aware though, it got cancelled after 1 season.
I enjoyed it when it was on More 4 last year. It was wriiten by Aaron Sorkin. It's not as good as The West Wing but sull okay. And Duffer is right, it was canclled after one series.
I didn't like it and I am a fan of West Wing. I think Sorkin suffers from a similar thing to Tarantino in his scripts - everyone speaks with the same voice.
Every character has the same smart ass tone to their speech, everyone has a little quip and come back to every situation and appears to be incredibly intelligent. On West Wing it was quite similar but it had two things in over Studio 60 in that there was a bit more light and shade between the characters and it is believable (or you certainly want to believe) that the people in the White House are the most intelligent people in the US.
In Studio 60 I found the general style of the script to be just a bit too smug and holier than thou. As I say it's all delivered in one voice - Arron Sorkin's. And when it wasn't being so smug it swung to being overly schmaltzy - the episode with the old writer makes your teeth hurt it's so sacharine.
My other major gripe is the casting - generally it's good, but one of the most important characters is terrible - Amanda Peet is consistently poor throughout and a real weak link.
Every character has the same smart ass tone to their speech, everyone has a little quip and come back to every situation and appears to be incredibly intelligent. On West Wing it was quite similar but it had two things in over Studio 60 in that there was a bit more light and shade between the characters and it is believable (or you certainly want to believe) that the people in the White House are the most intelligent people in the US.
In Studio 60 I found the general style of the script to be just a bit too smug and holier than thou. As I say it's all delivered in one voice - Arron Sorkin's. And when it wasn't being so smug it swung to being overly schmaltzy - the episode with the old writer makes your teeth hurt it's so sacharine.
My other major gripe is the casting - generally it's good, but one of the most important characters is terrible - Amanda Peet is consistently poor throughout and a real weak link.
I'd say that's fair. It is nowhere as good as The West Wing.
My major problem with the show started when they showed the sketches from the show they make. They were so bad that it completely lost that sense of reality for me. I mean, how would this show be so popular with these sketches that are fecking awful.
I agree with your point that everyone spoke the same.
Just started watching this show again on DVD, and I must say, it's held up pretty well on second viewing. £13 delievered on play.com, well worth it.
The criticisms above are pretty fair, truth be told, and it is pretty hard to believe that there are so many smart, likeable people in these sorts of positions. Also, as was said above, they characters do tend to be quite similar stylistically (or at least the ones Sorkin 'likes' or wants to seem heroic).
But, a lot of it is good, and it's very watchable. Perry and Whitford are excellent in the lead roles, as is Steven Weber as Jack Rudolph the chairman of the NBS. Some of the writing is extremely good, and what I particularly liked was they were able to find humour in mundanity.
All in all, I reckon if you liked the West Wing, this will be worth a watch. It's not as good, but then nothing is. This, although not of that standard, is still better than a lot of the dross on tv at the moment.
The criticisms above are pretty fair, truth be told, and it is pretty hard to believe that there are so many smart, likeable people in these sorts of positions. Also, as was said above, they characters do tend to be quite similar stylistically (or at least the ones Sorkin 'likes' or wants to seem heroic).
But, a lot of it is good, and it's very watchable. Perry and Whitford are excellent in the lead roles, as is Steven Weber as Jack Rudolph the chairman of the NBS. Some of the writing is extremely good, and what I particularly liked was they were able to find humour in mundanity.
All in all, I reckon if you liked the West Wing, this will be worth a watch. It's not as good, but then nothing is. This, although not of that standard, is still better than a lot of the dross on tv at the moment.
Yes. If I remember correctly I liked it for a while, then I got very tired of that.