After listening to a podcast about Studio 60 i got into watching this show. I’m now on episode 15 our of 22.
These are my thought and I was wondering if anybody would like to talk about it. I know it’s an older show, but hey you can’t watch everything as it’s coming out.
i’m gonna talk about some plot lines, so these are [SPOILERS]
I really loved the first few episodes. The writing is crisp and witty, the jokes are good, the plot moves nicely and the internal conflicts seem to drive everything. But after a few episodes, more and more toxic behaviour and positions crept in.
Spoiler
First with Harriet’s position on gay marriage. sure, the show makes people say that the statement was wrong. But at the end of the plot line, she gets this whole mushy scene with Matt how they’re both stupid and that she was misquoted and stuff. Where I absolutely agree with the previous statement in the same episode, that saying “The Bible says it’s a sin” is not the same as saying “I don’t know”.
Harriet is a super toxic person in the relationship with Matt, but constantly gets off the hook by the show and they end up in another “cute moment” together. She absolutely FLIPS when she knows he had a relationship with someone else, even though Matt and Harriet weren’t together when Matt dated Jeany AND Harriet was the one who broke up with Matt AND later we find out she slept with Luke. But the show still presents her as being “correct” in the end and Matt being the idiot.
Some of the plot lines, but especially the conflict resolutions feel so unfair, unbalanced and weird. Really of the time. While some transcend. I guess that’s why I’m disappointed. The show has so much potential. But again and again shows me that people get judged for things that aren’t their fault and get off the hook too easily for things that ARE.
what are some of your thoughts after watching a few or all episodes?
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I haven’t watched it in maybe a decade so I forget the plot details. But for all her faults, I liked the notion of including someone who was meant to be sympathetic while also defending the sorts of folks whom we generally disagree with. Especially with how both sides are at each others throats now, characters like that seem more important than ever.
Regardless, the combination of Sorkin dialogue and some great set pieces just really worked for me. Enjoy the heck out of the show!
Sorry. I’m an OG on Team 30 Rock so I’m legally and morally barred from ever watching Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. Them’s the rules. 🤷
