50 - Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip (feat. Alec Robbins)
Alec Robbins (@alecrobbins) walks and talks the lads through the esteemed halls of the Paris Opera House of American Television™ that is Aaron Sorkin’s most notorious flop: Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. Topics include the racism of the mid-2000s, the surreality of the sketches, and the endlessly watchable nature of this truly calamitous foray into the writing process behind the world’s most controversial sketch: “Crazy Christians.”
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Twitter: @alecrobbins
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Media Referenced in this Episode:
Case File #1: Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip by Nathan Rabin
https://www.avclub.com/case-file-1-studio-60-on-the-sunset-strip-1798228131
Pitting Their Idealism Against Show Business by Alessandra Stanley
https://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/18/arts/television/18stan.html
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Theme by Brendan Dalton
Comments (9)
I didn't know anything about this show so Sarah Paulson being in it was a jumpscare for me. the description of her in studio 60 is like. exactly how she is 90% of the time in AHS and the very similar california shitlib politics between the two shows is kind of hilarious
I think like most people, you remember a version of The West Wing that doesn’t exist. If you re-watch that show, it is NOT about optimism, high ideals or making the world better. It’s consistently extremely conservative economically and routinely, it’s conservative socially. It is certainly a fantasy universe, but just like in real life, the message is “good things can’t happen, the left is insane and bad, everything needs to be means tested, Arabs are bad.”
All the talk about Sorkins work making audiences feel smart makes me want to see you guys cover Good Witch, the Hallmark validation hose for the worst person you know.
The description "A David Lynch sketch show" demands an episode about his 'On the Air'
Amazing call out to the West Wing Pilot super cut, AJ.
Modern Major General?
Speaking of terribly written female characters: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-GeFM4Mco48
I’m I shit on sorkin for being a bad person. He’s a lib. This comes from a socialist perspective, miss me with the bad faith accusations of conservatism.
yeah. no one talks crap on Sorkin for being a jerk or bad person. what leaves everyone dumbfounded is his TV shows all vibe like something created by a combination of sheltered naivety and Los Angeles shit-lib, that leaves everyone convinced the writers room had to be coked outa their minds.