Posted by
John on Saturday, July 22, 2006 11:41:46 AM
ugly isn't the word.
It's like watching a dog getting hit by a car
So Aaron Sorkin is making TV about making TV, and he's basing all of
the characters on himself, his partners, and other people who he sees
as interesting. Because he's the most interested/ing thing out there.
..., "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip." The show is a
wicked send-up of an "SNL"-esque late-night series on a network that
smells a lot like NBC....One
astute reporter asked Matthew Perry and Bradley Whitford, who play
Aaron Sorkin and his longtime professional partner, Tommy Schlamme, on
"Studio 60," to comment on the fact that their characters bear more
than passing resemblance to Aaron Sorkin and Tommy Schlamme.
I guess the entertainment press is making a lot of Sorkin and Matt
Perry's flippant drug references. I don't see these as a big deal - ex
Catholics and ex-smokers make the same cracks (heh). So the
entertainment press are a bunch of high-school girls in the business of
making something out of nothing.
On the smaller scale, this is a "who cares?" moment - TV eating itself?
Old news. TV picking the most bland, banal material? Been watching it
since the "Love Boat." But you have to ask, given world events and the
rich complexity of America in the world, with the accompanying rich
emotional context, if this is the best they could really do.