Five questions: “Nevada Day Part I”
If you’re watching along in my Studio 60 Revisited Monday night marathon, tonight we’re viewing episode eight, “Nevada Day Part II,” which originally aired on November 13, 2006. But first, five questions that popped into my head while re-viewing Part I:
1. Was this the unofficial start of the Tom and Lucy romance subplot? She was the only one who remembered that he wore the same shepherd’s costume once before, and shot him a few looks not all that far removed from Kim’s. It sure looks like, if she was watching the show in general before she started writing for it, she was watching Tom in particular.
2. Should Jack have sent Jordan to Pahrump? I’m thinking her sexual shenanigans with the ex-husband would have been met with a lot more tolerance in a town that was built on brothels. Maybe the judge would have been judgmental over the latest gossip-column digs about her dislike of children and dogs. Or maybe Jordan would have done more with charm and self-deprecating humor than Jack could with his black American Express card.
3. Where was Cal? Timothy Busfield co-directed the episode, so I guess we couldn’t see Cal behind the show-within-a-show’s cameras because he was behind the show’s cameras. Still, I miss that guy when he’s not around — and with Danny Nevada-bound, it was particularly odd not to have Cal taking up the technical slack.
4. Why is Jordan still dressing like a co-ed? If Jack’s right and the top brass doesn’t like this girl, maybe it’s because she dresses like a girl and not an executive. Or maybe she just dresses like the talent. At any rate, her get-ups aren’t even up to business casual standards. I guess it’s all part of her real-ness, but despite what Danny said many episodes ago, she still doesn’t look like “one of them.” Shouldn’t she, just a little?
5. Did nobody think to bring poor Tom a change of clothes? If they were going to bother to fly all the way to Pahrump without much of a rescue plan, the least Danny or Simon could have done was bring their friend a pair of pants and a sweatshirt or something.
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