TV Meme Day Five: Sports Night
Day 05: A show you hate
Really? Well, there's a lot of genre's that I hate for a start: most reality, any kind of talent show, procedural cop show (though I do make some exception), soap operas etc. But today I can't be bothered hating on something so I'm going to with:
A show you hateA show that you wish more people had watched
(Yes, I am just turning this meme into an excuse to talk about shows I love).
Sports Night
Jeremy: Not fitting in is how qualified people lose jobs!
Isaac: Yeah, but a lot of the time, it's how they end up working here. (< why I love Sports Night in two lines of dialogue).
One day when I was a teenager I was flicking through the channels and She Will Have Her Way by Neil Finn was being played on one show and it being one of my favourite songs, and it being played on an American TV show my reactions was OMFG I must watch this. And that's how a discovered Sports Night, completely unaware that it was from the same creative team that was behind The West Wing. And thank goodness that that was how I discovered the show because by accident is the only way you would probably get me to watch a show called Sports Night (not being a big fan of sports).
It's an Aaron Sorkin workplace comedy, so it's got fantastic dialogue and passionate, intelligent but ever so slightly crazy characters. It's one of the first ever dramedies, so executives clearly did not know how to sell it at first, and the first few episodes have one of the most excruciating laugh tracks of all time. It's also wonderfully meta. As these characters are in the show running a sports show called Sports Night, the show's storylines often reflect the trials the creative team running a sitcom called Sports Night about a fictional sports show called Sports Night. Also recommending it is that it was before Aaron Sorkin's head swelled to the size of Texas and he decided to use his shows as a means to attack all his critics.
It's funny and wonderful and you don't need to know anything about or even enjoy sport to love this show. It's more about people who love their jobs than people who love sports. There's a sad decline in quality in the mid second season with Sorkin's focus shifting to The West Wing, but it's final episode is on of the best finales of a show ever.
A link to the rest of the meme
Really? Well, there's a lot of genre's that I hate for a start: most reality, any kind of talent show, procedural cop show (though I do make some exception), soap operas etc. But today I can't be bothered hating on something so I'm going to with:
A show you hateA show that you wish more people had watched
(Yes, I am just turning this meme into an excuse to talk about shows I love).
Sports Night
Jeremy: Not fitting in is how qualified people lose jobs!
Isaac: Yeah, but a lot of the time, it's how they end up working here. (< why I love Sports Night in two lines of dialogue).
One day when I was a teenager I was flicking through the channels and She Will Have Her Way by Neil Finn was being played on one show and it being one of my favourite songs, and it being played on an American TV show my reactions was OMFG I must watch this. And that's how a discovered Sports Night, completely unaware that it was from the same creative team that was behind The West Wing. And thank goodness that that was how I discovered the show because by accident is the only way you would probably get me to watch a show called Sports Night (not being a big fan of sports).
It's an Aaron Sorkin workplace comedy, so it's got fantastic dialogue and passionate, intelligent but ever so slightly crazy characters. It's one of the first ever dramedies, so executives clearly did not know how to sell it at first, and the first few episodes have one of the most excruciating laugh tracks of all time. It's also wonderfully meta. As these characters are in the show running a sports show called Sports Night, the show's storylines often reflect the trials the creative team running a sitcom called Sports Night about a fictional sports show called Sports Night. Also recommending it is that it was before Aaron Sorkin's head swelled to the size of Texas and he decided to use his shows as a means to attack all his critics.
It's funny and wonderful and you don't need to know anything about or even enjoy sport to love this show. It's more about people who love their jobs than people who love sports. There's a sad decline in quality in the mid second season with Sorkin's focus shifting to The West Wing, but it's final episode is on of the best finales of a show ever.
A link to the rest of the meme