Wait, really?
So which one is the one who told Matt to get the boot?
(I think I’ve been conflating the two actors into one character.)
Lobster guy is “Tom Jeter” played by Nathan Corddry. Tom is also the guy who seems to try and cover Harriet’s back, and also covered for the PA this week when she told the reporter the story.
The Nic Cage guy doesn’t even merit a bio on the show’s website, but he’s Simon Helberg.
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Nathan Corddry’s character “Tom” did.
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FWYW and IMHO, the new Sting album is pretty darn good. He doesn’t have the kind of near-operatic voice we’re used to hearing on recordings of medieval music, but he’s got way more than enough experience making a song work in performance to pull it off. It’s all music of John Dowland, known for writing some of the most depressing music of the era.
Come Again
that I may sease to mourn
through thy unkind disdain;
for now left and forlorn,
I sit, I sigh, I weep, I faint, I die
In deadly pain and endless misery
It’s like Evanescence with lutes!
Oh, and Edin? Rocks. Seriously, the dude’s got some chops.
Still can’t really get into it, but Harriet was more tolerable last night. I still don’t see the anarchic energy and sense that anybody’s having any FUN, dammit, that I’ve heard these shows are all about behind the scenes. Everybody is a cool, wisecracking, well-read savant, like they all carry metaphoric martinis in their hands.
Except when Harriet and Matt’s relationship crops up; then suddenly we’re back in Sweet Valley High. Bleccch.
This one covered a lot of weaknesses that worried me in previous episodes.
The Matt/Harriet romance was much better done, and while they keep harping on her religion, it wasn’t *quite *as ham-fisted or unwelcome as it has been.
The skits were funny.
The Jordan plot showed us that, indeed, Jordan has responsibilities outside of Studio 60, but since the “new and improved” Studio 60 is emblematic of the classier NBS she’s hoping to create, it’ll remain a big focus for her.
I’m still not quite there with Matt/Harriet, but it worked better this time, so maybe they’ll work the remaining kinks out, or at least move on to other things.
He was chugging sugar-free Red Bull. At most, we’ll get a storyline about his heart potentially exploding.
[Rennie dork hijack]
If you like it, please check out Owain Phyfe . Voice, as you say, much better suited to the music, although I wouldn’t call it operatic. [/hijack]
[effete musical snob]Pfff. That hack. :rolleyes:
I find that his voice, though well-trained, lacks the variety of tonal color necessary to make his music consistently interesting.[/ems]
You want variety of tonal color and you’re listening to STING? Puh-lease! Which tone do you prefer, rasp or barb? 
There’s only one way to settle this: lute-off. In tights.
Nice Harry Chapin reference. 
Forgot my favorite exchange from the teaser for next week:
“These three, I don’t think, broke the bank on their SATs.”
“How recently did they TAKE the SATs?”
“Don’t be a snob.”
That, and the line about giving Matt’s number to Lauren Graham’s TV daughter.
I can die a happy man now.
whynot, good one about Sting, too.
Back on track: Great episode. Loved the no-apparent-reason lobster suit.
Lobster: Wardrobe wanted you to approve this.
Matt: Looks great.
lobster starts to leave…
Matt: Wait… that’s supposed to be a lobster suit, right?
Lobster: Uh, yeah?
Matt: Okay.
When I heard the pitch regarding the “Search and Destroy” show, my first thought was that they will never get any couples to agree to be on a show like that. Then, I realized how naive I sounded.
Harriet was born in Brighton, Michigan!!! I wasn’t born there, but we moved there when I was 3. Ok, we moved close…anyhow, that was awesome!
Um, sorry, carry on with your praising or trashing of the show. I think the whole “Sting got too much time thing” was becaus, well, he’s Sting. If you want him as a guest on your show, you gotta make some concessions 
(I also liked the Harry Chapin reference, nicely done)
I found myself feeling much the same way this week. I want to love this show. I really, really, really do. But it’s just not getting there for me. I thought it was steadily going uphill, and this week it let me down. Of course, I very much enjoyed next week’s preview, so I’m not officially out yet. (And to tell the truth, my roommate will continue watching it, so I probably won’t stop even if I can’t stand it anymore.)
I would definitely like to see more Danny (either Whitford or Busfield), and I’m getting heartily sick of the Harriet/Matt relationship. I understand why it’s important to them, but I don’t think it should be that important to the show as a whole. I don’t outright dislike any of the cast, and I hope Corddry and Hughley get more screen time as we move along. I really want to love this show.
Here we go again. Studio 60 lost more viewers from last week, down to a 5.3/8.
The irony is that Deal or No Deal keeps winning Monday night for NBC, and a second episode of Deal or No Deal plus the new game show 1 vs. 100 are the two best rated shows on Friday night, which used to be a disaster for NBC.
So while Sorkin is taking pot shows at sleazy reality shows, real game shows are what’s saving the network. (Heroes is also losing viewers from week to week, BTW.)
The real suits inside NBC must be having frantic meetings at this point. If two such heavily promoted, critically acclaimed shows can’t get good ratings on Monday night, then how could any replacement shows do better? Yet how long can they keep losing viewers? That’s a meeting I’d like to see Jordan have instead of the phony holier-than-thou meetings she’s shown as having.
Hey Sorkin, it’s one thing to have the President of the United States have unshakable morals; it’s another for a network president. Start making her real and have her compromise a bit. Have them all compromise a bit. End this wish fulfillment fantasy and start making the show have even an iota of real world striving and failing.
You know what the show reminds me of now? A religious comic book, where the good guys are Good Guys. Sorkin has bent over backward so far that he’s snapped.
The ongoing problem with this show is that Sorkin is using it to create a Mary Jane protrayal of his own life. That worked for Larry David but Sorkin’s life apparently isn’t as entertaining.
Aaron, nobody but you cares about your failed relationship with Kristin Chenoweth. Nobody but you cares about how you got pushed off The West Wing. Nobody, apparently including you, cares about your relationship with Thomas Schlamme.
I don’t care about any of these issues because I wouldn’t know about any of these issues except for people complaining about them.
I don’t care about the issues or people either. I do care that he’s creating characters and situations that aren’t dramatically compelling to me because he’s getting juvenile revenge by making their triumphs too easy.