OK, so I guess it’s been a loong while since I’ve blogged, and now I find myself blogging once again about that old chestnut, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip.  I just started rewatching the first episode today.  And oh my GOD it was good. And about 2 years before its time.  I vow and affirm to you, if it had have started airing in the Autumn of 2008 – or perhaps sometime in mid-November 2008, it would have lasted more than just the one season that it got.  Correct me if I’m wrong here, darling American friends, but my impression was that the US psyche (that same psyche whose ratings decide whether a show lives or dies) wasn’t feeling optimistic about change back in 2006, and Studio 60 didn’t get the following it needed to stay on the air.

But the unequivocal vibe that’s wobbling it’s way accross the Atlantic right now is full of hope and optimism for the future.  And Studio 60 has that vibe, at least in the first episode – “we’ve got something that needs fixing, and we’ve found just the right man [men] for the job – now let’s get to it!”

My advice? Revisit it.  You might just like it on second watching.  And don’t worry, they do at least get to finish out the season and wrap the stories up.

Mostly.