Another Sorkin moment
Alerted by this recent post by sbisson I kick-started my trusty Bittorrent client and downloaded the pilot of "Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip" which has somehow managed to escape on to the Interweb. Ooh, it's good. It's soothing-the-residual-pain-from-watching-the-last-ever-episode-of-The-West-Wing good. It's smart and it's funny but then so was Sports Night, and that was cancelled after only 2 seasons, so who knows?
There are some lovely lines, I jotted down a couple,
Danny Tripp (Bradley Whitford) and Jordan McDeere (Amanda Peet)
DANNY
That's nice, but I have no reason to trust you and every reason not to.
JORDAN
Why?
DANNY
You work in television.
Matt Albie (Matthew Perry) and Danny Tripp (Bradley Whitford)
MATT
Why didn't you tell me? When I screw up you know about it.
DANNY
When you screw up I read about it.
Best comment I've read on-line about it was by Warren Ellis when he said on his blog,
I just read a draft of Aaron Sorkin’s STUDIO 60 ON THE SUNSET STRIP and it is so finely balanced and perfectly judged that I’m about ready to kill myself.
There are some lovely lines, I jotted down a couple,
Danny Tripp (Bradley Whitford) and Jordan McDeere (Amanda Peet)
DANNY
That's nice, but I have no reason to trust you and every reason not to.
JORDAN
Why?
DANNY
You work in television.
Matt Albie (Matthew Perry) and Danny Tripp (Bradley Whitford)
MATT
Why didn't you tell me? When I screw up you know about it.
DANNY
When you screw up I read about it.
Best comment I've read on-line about it was by Warren Ellis when he said on his blog,
I just read a draft of Aaron Sorkin’s STUDIO 60 ON THE SUNSET STRIP and it is so finely balanced and perfectly judged that I’m about ready to kill myself.