Reminder--new "Studio 60" this week

Tomorrow (Monday) night. Or, I guess, tonight for our northern
neighbors.

This one and the next one form a two-parter that guest stars
John Goodman. He was great in "The West Wing," so hopefully
he'll help make a couple more good episodes of S60.

Anim8rFSK...

Thanks for the heads up. My DVR seems to be planning on recording it,
so confidence is high . . .

karl...

About on a par with the rest of the eps. It seems to have _almost_ been
written in a Shakespearian comedy of errors format. And as such _almost_
works.

Watson deMeneux (formerly Roger Thaat)...

I liked it a lot...and laughed out loud a couple of times.

Steven Weber has a little affectation with his speech that's a little
irritating...he sort of purses his lips when he's pronouncing esses that
come out a little like effs...I hate that.

John Goodman is HUGE. In size, I mean.

The street confrontation that triggered the entire exercise seemed phony
to me.

Along with Peet I now find Hughley disappointing. I don't know whether it
is his delivery or the lines they give him but it comes off as leaden. I'm
thinking something similar about Steven Weber too. Just a little too much
over-delivery as with the Amex Black Card scene.

Has he had Botox? Or plastic surgery? His face looks like the 'after' Kenny
Rogers: par-boiled

I've said 30 Rock is 75% of a good show. I think S60 is 66% of a good show.
If they could merge the best parts of both I think they would have an
critical tour de force and maybe even a ratings winner.

Fey handles the snide humour while Sorkin does the network politics drama.
They need to reign in Sorkin's tendency to preach from a soapbox [though
mostly absent from this ep] while Fey needs help in plotting.

Assuming you get the best part of each and not the worst it would be
interesting to see the results.