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So, normally I don’t talk about pop culture, because I don’t properly appreciate it, which makes me a lousy critic, but I’m making an exception for Studio 60, or as I like to call it: season three of The Sorkin and Schlamme Show. I finally got around to getting my TiVo to show me the pilot. If you can’t wait for the episodes of this show to come out, I suggest you find a friend with DVD’s for SportsNight (that’d be me) and ask to borrow them. The parallels are so numerous that upon seeing Felicity Huffman in an obvious guest star role, I didn’t register that she was a guest star until about five minutes after I started wondering why she hadn’t been on the screen for a while. Similarly, anyone who has been in mourning since the show was canceled can put on a happy face again. For all intents and purposes its back.

I’d do more of a write up on the show, but I trust that every TV critic on the planet has already gone over it in depth, so I’ll just hit some highlights: Sorkin’s politics are as usual not being held close to the vest, the show is so insanely autobiographical that if you read the Wikipedia page on Sorkin and the Show, you can get confused about which page you are on, Amanda Peet must be thanking her lucky stars for landing her part: she’s going to look great in it, and just how awesome is it to pilot a show with an homage to Network?