Watching Studio60

If you’ve been following along with my Studio 60 Revisited Monday night marathon, tonight’s the night for “The Friday Night Slaughter,” which originally aired on February 12, 2007. This is the one in which Matt flashes back to his early days of writing for Studio 60, meeting and falling for Harriet, vying with Luke for her attention, and talking with some writer who nobody in the present-day Studio remembers. Maybe that has something to do with the pills Matt’s popping.

I’ll admit, I flipped around through this episode last week after watching “The Harriet Dinner Part 2,” mostly because I needed some more Jordan-Danny cuteness Right That Very Minute. There’s some in this episode, not a lot, but enough to tide me over to the fake-baby shenanigans in next week’s “4 A.M. Miracle.” I had to fast-forward through the Matt flashbacks, though, because I found the Harriet Dinner episodes to be just brutal on the Matt-Harriet front, and I’m not looking forward to the coming breakdown.

Still, tonight, for the purposes of writing about it here, I’ll keep my finger off the fast-forward. First time watching this, about a year ago, I was slow in picking up who Matt’s mystery colleague was. Now that I’ve had that particular anagram unscrambled for me, it will be interesting to re-view and see how well it all works. And heck, I can always rewind the Jordan-Danny scenes and replay a few times to cheer myself up.

Watch with me tonight, and come back throughout the week for a review, recap, memorable lines, and five questions.

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