What Studio60 could have been
By fred | February 14, 2007
(S01E15) So I’ve been saying how Studio60 was really on a bad road lately, and then came this episode. It wasn’t a complete revolution, I won’t say now things are back on a better road, but.
Yes, there’s a but. A pretty good but, even though there’s actually a but within that but. Men do I love but’s…
Anyways, this week we had another kind of show within the show in a form of a flashback. And to sum things up, it both worked & didn’t worked at the same time. Looking at what occurred during the flashback scenes, it sure worked. But looking at the flashback itself, and how it was part of the show, it didn’t.
It pretty much seemed to me like they realized that the show was really not in a good place, and they’d wish they could start over, forget about all the crap they wrote in the past episodes and start fresh, and that’s what they did!
Using the form of a flashback, they were able to forget about all the lame plots they made us suffer through during the last episodes, and made the show what it should have been in the first place.
And when they did that, one thing got pretty clear: they obviously know how to write a great show, they know what to do to make things great, interesting, funny even.
The show we had during the flashback was the one I was wanting to see when I first heard of Studio60, it was what I was expecting from Aaron Sorkin and his team, it is was Studio60 should be, always.
It was all about the behind the scenes of the big show in the making, we had a writing room full of writers running around all everywhere, so many of them the newbies didn’t even have any desk, they had to work right on the ground.
And it was all about how things get done in such shows, how new writers write sketches every week and don’t actually get any single one of them on the air, how they should want & try to write for the big comedians, to have better chance to see their sketches picked, how new comedians on the other hand tend to want big writers to write for them, same reason: get better chance to have a sketch pick up.
It was full of little insiders like this that are just great, like seeing how comedians coming in for auditions had to wait for hours before they could actually meet anyone.
