Watching Studio60

Five questions that popped into my head while re-viewing “Breaking News”:

1. Couldn’t they have found something else for Jenna Fischer to do? Insert her into one of the sketches they showed or something? As it was, it looked like she was just passing by the building and they said, “Hey, Jenna, come in here and pretend you were the guest host!”

2. Who knew Nate Corddry could do drama? He’s been kind of a cute befuddled presence throughout the season, but he really came through in those scenes when he saw his brother in peril. If there was an Emmy for Outstanding Work in Facial Expressions, he woulda been a lock.

3. What’s Mary like in the courtroom? Is she all business? A cutthroat shark? Or does she do that flirty-and-then-serious thing there, too? ‘Cause I’d sure like to find her in contempt of court.

4. Does all that software Jack was going on about actually exist? The music one does (and notice that they have the S60 clip right on the front page of the site). The TV-making one I think was just a figment of a network executive’s fantasy, or we never would have seen an end to the writers strike.

5. Where was Cal? I hate it when the family’s not together. You could have traded in any, I don’t know, five scenes with crazy Mary to find some Cal time. Or was it Timothy Busfield’s turn to disappear?

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