Studio 60 = Identity Crisis

The second Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip was very good, better than the first episode as I suspected it would be. The biggest problem I see, is that this is Sports Night, plain and simple. Sports Night is a gem that should have been treasured more when it originally aired and lightning rarely strikes twice. Brilliance is hard to duplicate and Sports Night was indeed a brilliant show, can Studio 60 even come close? Let's hope so.

But, this show is having an identity crisis of sorts. Studio 60 is a comedy, saying it's a drama, which is problematic. Every scene on Sports Night wasn't laughs and giggles, give me a break, and neither is this, but there is too much inflection of comedy to pretend this is a drama. Besides that, you know how Sports Night ends with them starting on the show they've been working on throughout the episode and it always was a nice fade out. Here, they did the same thing control room and all, and they showed the first skit they'd come up with at the end of the show. Not bad. But it won't be good every week, last week's wasn't hilariously funny either, I think they'd do better to fade into the show without doing the skits, because you don't want it to hinge on whether people loved the skit. But it was good, they need to call themselves a comedy, and it's getting better.