Huh?
Eric Burns, of Websnark, has a rather exhaustive look at the problems he has with Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. I enjoy Studio 60, but I can still see Eric’s side of a lot of what he has to say. Except for this part:
So. Matt Albie and Harriet Hayes are ex-lovers, driven apart because she’s a Christian who actually recorded a Christian album and promoted it on the 700 club, and he’s an agnostic Jew who thinks that Pat Robertson is evil and hypocritical. (Which she agrees with, but she still appeared on the show). Which would be a great point of romantic tension on the show, if we could ignore the fact that Aaron Sorkin used to go out with West Wing alumna Kristin Chenoweth, a self described liberal Christian comedian, television and broadway star who recorded an album of Christian music which she promoted on the 700 Club. I guess the best way to win an argument with your ex-girlfriend is to make it a subplot on your multimillion dollar television show and clearly paint you in the right and she in the wrong. Oh, wait, I don’t mean ‘best way to win an argument.’ I mean ‘most self-indulgent and moderately creepy way to perpetuate an argument.’ My mistake.
Sorry, but I can’t believe Eric’s watching the same show I am, because other than the fact that she gave him a bat that had another guy’s phone number on it, there’s absolutely no way that Harriet’s the one who’s in the wrong in the Matt/Harriet relationship. Maybe Sorkin means to portray it the way that Eric says, but if so, he’s failing. Miserably.
One quick note about tonight’s episode. When Tom’s dad blew up at him about the fact that, in the grand scheme of things, Tom’s job is pretty trivial compared to what his brother’s doing, I really expected that they were going to play it to make Tom’s dad look like an idiot, or, at least, a bad father. I was really pleased that they went the other way.