The TV Addict 

I’m one of those regular and loyal yet skeptical and occasionally disappointed viewers of Studio 60, but the hype about tonight’s epsidoe has me anxious.

There’s also positive hype for it over at At Ain’t It Cool News. Four reviewers there got to see it early. One of them gave the episode 4.5 out of 5 stars, and the other three people gave it a perfect score of 5. (I think the Studio 60 reviews at AICN are Canadians. Does Canada show episodes earlier than Monday night or a week ahead of time? Just curious.)

So, it sounds pretty unanimous. It must be a an excellent, or at least above average, episode. I’m looking forward to seeing what transpires.

Loved the episode. Especially the debate between popular knowledge of Jesus and Christmas and the truth of Jesus and Christmas. Not the mention the fact that Danny, Matt and Jack all share their feelings

Studio 60 is a great show and I watch it every week. It’s good to hear some positive things about it. My DVR is already set for series recording.

Common Sense – make sure to post tomorrow and let me know how much you loved the episode.

Great episode, but why do they insist on promoting other nbc shows? It seems out of Sorkin’s vision to do that…or perhaps just like the show, the board of directors for Universal is mandating this. Any thoughts?

I am fine with it as well. I guess that episode on on-air company promotions stated sorkin’s opinion. I didn’t watch The West Wing, was their cross promotion on that show? It is probably the format of Studio 60 that allows for more of it. I can’t stand Howie Mandell anyways. All those new game shows are annoying! lol.

Awesome episode! The to catch a predator sketch was hillarious!!! I also like that they arent gonna drag out Danny and Jordan like they do with Harriet and Matt. I think this show continues to improve each week. I hope it gets a chance for a 2nd season;) I i enjoyed Matt tonight he seemed mroe lighthearted and less cynical. Heres hoping the quality continues to increase!

TVAddict, I’m sorry to say, but despite your guarantee, I was, in fact, disappointed. I have to agree with Janice that it was uneven. Like so many previous episodes, it was a mixed bag of good stuff and bad stuff.

What Was Good:
– The Danny & Jordan interaction at the beginning
– Danny’s admission of love that seemed premature but well delivered
– Jordan eating everything in sight
– Matt pulling Harriet aside to kiss her
– The New Orleans musicians

What Was Bad:
– The constant nitpicking over the calendar system, the timing of Jesus’s birth, and whether the star of Bethlehem was a star or a comet (I wasn’t offended by it at all, but the obsession with it just felt like beating a dead horse)
– How everyone acts like Christmas is some kind of alien festival that no one knows how to celebrate or write sketches about just because they’re in California
– The fact that the only one person has Christmas spirit even though he’s Jewish
– Cal’s obsession with the coconuts and the cracking of the table in half
– So much going on in one episode that the FCC violation subplot feels under-developed
– The scene where Simon & Harriet are practicing a couple jokes on their News 60 cue cards; both jokes are way too long and not funny at all

Sorry, maybe all the hype about this episode made me expect too much out of it. Also, after the excellent Heroes episode that came before it, maybe I was bound to be disappointed by Studio 60 in comparison.

So far, I think the best material of this season was the “West Coast Feed” episode and the last five minutes of part two of the Parump, Nevada, two-parter (just those five minutes alone had two laugh-out-load moments). The Christmas episode would rank somewhere in the middle for me.