Just Watched The Last "Studio 60" Episode Tonight

[Paladin]

And I wish the preceding episodes had been half as good as this last one. The actors seemed to have finally settled into their roles, they'd removed the more irritating traits of that blonde Christian actress character, and, most of all, Aaron Sorkin wrote it. Too bad......

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

1. I've watched every single one and each week it just got better and better. NBC did nothing

to promote it. So sad that it's over.

[Writer]

2. The show's scope was much too broad and misdirected.

It seemed Sorkin wanted to create a show about the political influence of media management on a television show. He should have focused squarely on the network and the exec producers and not as much on the entire cast of Studio 60. Also... there are a few assumptions that we tend to make about the relationship between media managers and television product that aren't so neatly packed in an office. Top-down political influence is not always just about politics and "backroom deals," it's also about the mood of the public. In fact, if there is a missing character in any show/movie about the media, it's the millions of Americans watching (or not.)

It did get very, very good in the last five episodes, but that's because he focused on the 2001 Terror Attacks as a means to crystallize the message he wanted to present. But what I think Sorkin naively misunderstood is that the day-to-day workings of a network are really not all that outrageous and as ardently politicized as when operating under the dark cloud of a national tragedy.