No thread yet for the big finish to the “K & R” storyline? I’m surprised.
Does the Taliban really report the deaths of hostages it hasn’t actually killed?
How much better would this show be if it were about Steven Weber’s character? Immeasurably better, that’s how much.
So, do we know why Matt and Danny were fired the first time? Was it just the one dumbass radio talk show for dumbasses? And/or did Matt’s “I’m a Jew, I’ve always wanted to kill Arabs” slip at dress rehearsal have something to do with it also?
And is it credible that Matt, unmiked in a large studio, would have been heard by almost everyone in the room?
It was a three-part episode that didn’t even resolve everything in those three hours. I found that amazing, but also frustrating and goes to explain why the show didn’t make it. Plus I didn’t especially like the drawn out way they explained why Matt and Danny were fired.
I agree that nothing was resolved. But I did enjoy the episode quite a bit. Of all the let’s-put-Christianity-and-secularism-in-a-ring-and-make-the-fight moments on the show, which there were way too many of, Harriet trying to teach Danny to play was probably the best.
There’s another episode next week – probably part four of this interminable storyline. The six hours last night (What? Well, it seemed like six hours) merely tread water so much that I ceased to care. The dialog wasn’t even clever.
But I did finally discover the reason why the episode was so bad: the “guest host” of the show in flashback was Jason Alexander, the black hole of quality: he sucks anything good out of everything he comes in contact with and, judging by Studio 60, this power is increasing exponentially.
It was a surprise for what was supposed to be the third episode of a trilogy. They’re going to have to conclude the Jordan and Tom storylines and that’s going to make the next episode or two the defacto fourth part of a trilogy.
Apparently Sorkin considered the story of why he left The West Wing - excuse me, the story of why Matt left Studio 60 - to be the real heart of this trilogy and kidnapped brothers and bleeding fiancees were just filler.
Only one episode left. Season finale is next week. Yeah, I have no idea why they were calling this a three-parter when it left so many threads dangling.
I thought he left The West Wing because he was drugged up and hard to work with… I’ve never heard any rumors that it had to with 9/11. In fact, he did two entire seasons post 9/11, although large parts of season 3 were presumably written and produced pre-9/11.
This isn’t the “real” version of what happened. This is Sorkin’s thinly veiled fictional version of what happened. In this version we see that the network suits wouldn’t back a brilliant and principled television writer against the dark forces of the vast right-wing conspiracy.
5 part episode. (I’m guessing the resolution comes next week). It started in Breaking News.
He spent nearly 1/4 of the season on one night - and most of that post show. It’s just such a bad, bad, bad decision. There’s no content and it’s been stretched out so long, that I can’t imagine that I would still care if I’d started out caring. ER at its worst would have done this in 2 episodes, tops (and had at least 3 more C level stories going on in the background.)
It’s not a good story, well told. It’s a bad story, with a few good moments while the teller murders the punchline.
BTW, how did Tom’s brother’s superior know who Mary was and what she was doing? He never heard her name, he never heard her law firm, he never got introduced to her. All he was told was “Sexual Harrassment Lawyer.” She’s also like 800,000 degrees from the K&R people. So how did he put “random blond is in the hall” together with the rescue attempt? How does some AF Officer in engineering just know?
A JAG guy? I might buy it (just because their fields overlap and perhaps he’s run into K&R botches before - or maybe they were in law school together), if Mary were the most famous lawyer in the world - I might buy.
But she’s not, and he’s not and his recognition of her really rubbed me the wrong way.
I can buy that the Air Force colonel knows a lot about a lot of things, so I’m willing to accept that although he may not know who Mary is, once he heard an attorney is wandering the halls of a TV studio at 3 o’clock in the morning she may not be necessarily taking depositions in a sexual harassment suit.
Plynck, next week is the series finale. The show was not renewed.
I have a problem with Harriet telling Danny, “I’ll teach you how to pray.” I was not aware there was a protocol in talking to God, although considering she’s supposed to be a Super Christian, I suppose you must be “taught” how to talk to God. :rolleyes:
Which is a great observation and a telling criticism of Sorkin’s writing. He has rarely written the religious point of view as anything other than a conveniently stupid strawman. I mean, c’mon, someone with Harriet’s background is suddenly troubled by the grade school objections Danny voices in the chapel?
It’s hard to believe that this was penned by the same guy who wrote the Two Cathedrals episode of The West Wing.
I had a problem with it, seeing as how Danny is supposed to have been in AA for umpteen years and back after a relapse. If he was in a 12 step program (ANY 12 step program), this isn’t the first time someone told him to get on knees and pray, whether he believed in it or not. And he would have been familiar with the concept of humility (the reason for kneeling).
I thought the same thing. And I also thought that what he’s going through would prompt him to call his sponsor, or attend a meeting, or at least acknowledge the demons within.
This was pretty quickly dismissed. The doc said, “Go get a drink or something” and Danny replied, “I can’t, I’m an alcoholic” and the scene went on from there.
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