Mondays rock!
Dec. 5th, 2006 09:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eyelessgameBoth Heroes and Studio 60 rocked hard last night. For once Heroes didn't outshine Studio 60, and that's because Studio 60 rocked, not because Heroes rocked any less.
Sorkin sounded like Sorkin, finally. The dialogue was spot-on. He really does know how to get you to laugh out loud, watch flawed people still do the right things for the right reasons, see how TV really can be socially relevant, and just generally how people -- whether working in TV or not -- can work and by working make a slightly better world. The Christmas episode the first season of West Wing (In Excelsis Deo) may have been the best hour of TV ever made, and last night was just stellar in a similar, and very timely and relevant, way.
Heroes... well, no spoilers because no spoilers. But it rocked. Everybody needs to see it. Besides, how can you not just absolutely love a show that has someone whose powers are due to him actually killing people and eating their brains?
Three people at least have metapowers (the class of powers that Rogue or Nemesis Kid have) and they expect half the audience to get it before it's made explicit, and the other half to get it when it's made explicit, and both halves find something to be surprised by and something to enjoy.
Seriously, you have to watch this show if you're not. Bittorrent it. Watch from the beginning.
Sorkin sounded like Sorkin, finally. The dialogue was spot-on. He really does know how to get you to laugh out loud, watch flawed people still do the right things for the right reasons, see how TV really can be socially relevant, and just generally how people -- whether working in TV or not -- can work and by working make a slightly better world. The Christmas episode the first season of West Wing (In Excelsis Deo) may have been the best hour of TV ever made, and last night was just stellar in a similar, and very timely and relevant, way.
Heroes... well, no spoilers because no spoilers. But it rocked. Everybody needs to see it. Besides, how can you not just absolutely love a show that has someone whose powers are due to him actually killing people and eating their brains?
Three people at least have metapowers (the class of powers that Rogue or Nemesis Kid have) and they expect half the audience to get it before it's made explicit, and the other half to get it when it's made explicit, and both halves find something to be surprised by and something to enjoy.
Seriously, you have to watch this show if you're not. Bittorrent it. Watch from the beginning.
