Goon Danton posted:

She'd be a wide eyed political ingenue whose job it is to ask questions so our heroic apparatchiks can explain how things really work to her.

gradenko_2000 posted:

TheChirurgeon posted:

I seriously can't believe this was ever written seriously

that fuckin pilot handshake



Like seriously, as much as I love dunking on the West Wing's garbage politics, it's at least a very watchable show with lots of solid performances and you can at least look back on some of its less unforgivable ideas with "this was written in the late 90s/early 2000s." But then you get to Studio 60 and Newsroom and holee loving poo poo do things fly right off the rails and into loving dumbshit bonkers town where Sorkin is literally huffing a bag of his own farts. I love the podcast y'all are doing but if I were pressed I'd rather subject you to the torture of reviewing those shows just for the sheer comedy that would result

MonsieurChoc posted:

Oh man, we got to the worst scene, where Toby is the biggest rear end in a top hat ever.

TheChirurgeon posted:

Good stuff, glad to have this podcast back!

A request/note: When you do "Somebody's going to emergency, Somebody's going to jail," the plotline around Sam's dad is re-used whole cloth from Sports Night. Between that and the fact that everyone else's dad on either show is either dead, abusive, had Alzheimer's, or is scowling at you because your brother is in Afghanistan, dammit!, I gotta believe Sorkin had a real poo poo relationship with his dad. The only dad the shows don't hate is President Dad himself.

Victory Position posted:

is there any chance you'll cover the worst movie ever made, "Charlie Wilson's War" ?

Acinonyx posted:

Now that we're into the arc where our big strong dad is running for re-election, we'll finally learn something about his agenda!
Oh wait, nope, he's still the most centrist, useless, decorum infested poo poo and has no actual motivation beyond ego.