SORKIN’S A GO FOR A SHOW AT HBO

Michael Keaton signed a deal with HBO last year.  A Sorkin/Keaton collaboration would be pretty awesome, I think.

Kenny, get on watching The West Wing NOW. No, not later, NOW RIGHT NOW. Seasons 1-4 (ie, the seasons where Sorkin was running the show) are easily some of the best pieces of television in the history of the medium. Also, never seen A Few Good Men? Astounding.

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Kenny, get on watching The West Wing NOW. No, not later, NOW RIGHT NOW. Seasons 1-4 (ie, the seasons where Sorkin was running the show) are easily some of the best pieces of television in the history of the medium. Also, never seen A Few Good Men? Astounding.

Yeah, all of this. I can conceptually understand not loving Sports Night or Studio 60 (despite personally thinking they're fanfuckingtastic), but there's no excuse for not getting into West Wing. Greg's correct; seasons 1-4 are the best, though I'd argue it's only in S6-7 that the quality drops off on a severely consistent basis.

And never seen A FEW GOO MEN? I'm astonished, too.

A chance for Sorkin to be more preachy than Studio 60-pass.

A Few Good Men is hilariously awful. Stay away Kenny.

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A Few Good Men is hilariously awful. Stay away Kenny.

When did this happen? I can see flaws in it, but still think it's a good flick.

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Originally Posted by Greg Clark 

Kenny, get on watching The West Wing NOW. No, not later, NOW RIGHT NOW. Seasons 1-4 (ie, the seasons where Sorkin was running the show) are easily some of the best pieces of television in the history of the medium. Also, never seen A Few Good Men? Astounding.

Yeah, all of this. I can conceptually understand not loving Sports Night or Studio 60 (despite personally thinking they're fanfuckingtastic), but there's no excuse for not getting into West Wing. Greg's correct; seasons 1-4 are the best, though I'd argue it's only in S6-7 that the quality drops off on a severely consistent basis.

 

And never seen A FEW GOO MEN? I'm astonished, too.

Studio 60 fanfuckingtastic? HAHAHA. Are you high? It was awful.

If you heard Sorkin's smug "elite" speech at the Golden Globes, that is probably a clue just how preachy and heavy-handed that HBO show will be.

Studio 60 will be understated in comparison.

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Studio 60 fanfuckingtastic? HAHAHA. Are you high? It was awful.

Nope. I honestly loved it. Again, I see it flaws, but still think it was, and remains, better than 95% of what's on the Big Four these days. I had bigger problems with Sorkin's constant use of flashbacks and desire to show us Danny and Matt's first stint there when it was completely unnecessary; we'd heard enough about it throughout the show that we could fill in the blanks. But I hated all the flashbacks in West Wing, too.

Even die hard Sorkin fans don't defend Studio 60. 

I can still remember the Alec Baldwin commercials with Tina Fey joking about the 2 shows.  Would have bet Sorkin wiould have "won".

Studio 60 is half very good, it is just the other half is an inconsistent tonally-misguided mess (though it actually got a lot better towards the end when it became less bullshitty and more of a romantic comedy). I also think it got waaay too much stick from some critics as they couldn't get past the auto-biographical details. 

I'm excited for this, I think his TV work has gone from good to brilliant. It has the potential to be very preachy yes, but I think he'll have learned from Studio 60 that the proselytizing has to be earned, but even if it were, it could be be wildly satirical (as if MSNBC and FOX aren't preachy already). That said, if Olbermann is involved, unless that is very minor (Dee Dee Myers type consultant/occasional cameo), my hopes will go downhill fast.

For one thing, I'm delighted it is on HBO.