Watching Studio60

Let me start by saying I was disappointed with last night’s episode. I found some of the plot lines way too predicatable and nothing was brought to a conclusion. Yes, I know it was only part 2 of 3 but to leave everything to next week - well, What do I know, I am just a viewer.
So here goes for the recap:
First we see Jack pitching his plan to Tom, in a manner in which Tom was left no room for denial, of course, and Tom has to break his date with Lucy so he can take Kim to the Thursday night dinner. Instead of being honest with Lucy, he follows Matt’s advice and lies to her. He says he is going to be a celebrity waiter at an NBS dinner. She buys it and there is a very sweet moment when they have their first kiss and we actually believe this realtionship might have a chance.
Then we have the snakes - Danny asks Cal to set up a location for a shoot that involves snakes but Cal convinces him that the studio can save money by setting it up inside. Reluctantly Danny agrees, and of course a snake gets loose. The best part of this sub plot was the snake man. What a character - he reminded me of someone else - I finally realised who - Eeyore from Winnie the Pooh!! and I loved him. At the end of the show we had a coyote being placed down a drain to follow the ferret that had been placed down the drain to find the snake that we were told had slithered down the drain. That was very reminiscent of a song I used to sing when I was little by Burl Ives, - “The Old Lady who swallowed a fly” And of course the cost of the snake retrieval puts the indoor shoot over the original budget for the location shoot, but no one has told Danny that he has a snake loose in his studio.
Meanwhile, Danny himself realises that he has been a jerk and wants to apologise to Jordan. He finally chooses the Thursday evening when she and Harriett are on their way to Harriett’s dinner. To cut a long story short, they end up getting locked on the roof with no way out, no cell phone coverage, and hoping that someone will miss them and rescue them. This leads to lots of conversation, meaningful stuff but not really any conclusion. The previews of next week are leading us done the path of a BIG MOMENT, but who trusts previews.
And then we have Matt and Harriett - I will get to Tom and Lucy and Kim in a moment. Matt ends up in a tie for the final bid to take Harriett to the dinner with, he assumes, Luke, but we find out that LukeS5858 is not THE Luke but a famous professional snow boarder - whom I am ashamed to say I have never heard of, and his bidding handle was named for Luke Skywalker of Star Wars fame. So they end up taking Harriett to the dinner together, but lets go back to an earlier scene, when Harriet was in rehearsal for her part as Anita Pallenberg in the Rolling Stones movie, and there is another touching moment when Luke makes her realize that she and Matt haven’t really broken up, they have just moved into another phase of their realtionship and that she deserves better. Back to the dinner, where Harriett questions Matt as to what he thought was going to happen that evening and she finally tells him - “We are going to be Over tonight! Done be scared” Good - lets hope they both move on fast.
Before I get to Tom and Lucy we have to mention Hiro. The guest announcer for the show in rehearsal is the Hiro character from Heores. He only has a two second appearance but it is funny - during the set up he is working with Harriett who is dressed as the Cheerleader and has the now famous line from the show: Save the Cheerleader save the World, but in the final take, she substitutes the Dolphin voice, which gets posted on the internet, much to Matt’s dismay, as he hasn’t developed the Dolphin girl sketch for the show!
And finally - Tom takes Kim to the dinner, but she is dressed for the kill - wearing a very revealing dress - and this to a dinner being thrown by the Catholic Women!! Anyway - Kim proceeds to get very drunk and it is obvious that she has designs on Tom, who is clearly out of his depth. But, predictably, Lucy shows up and sees Tom and has the best line of the evening - “Aren’t you supposed to wait until we have slept together before you start behaving like a jerk?”. Obviously she is upset and Tom is miserable. Jack has to step into the breach and save Tom from a rampant Kim…and again no resolution here - we wait until next week.
We didn’t see much of Halley but the Jordan/Halley realtionship is mimicing the standard female antoagonists of most good soap operas. Where we would be without our Sammy Jo Carrington, or our Amanda Woodward to add spice to the female characters. But Jack was very cagey when confronted by Jordan as to the real reason he hired Hallie. Maybe we are being set up here too!
And finally - the Simon/Darius situation was explored a little more. We had some interaction but nothing that led us, well me at least, to an understanding of where this is all leading or what the real purpose of it all is. Lets hope we get there next week.
And we are left with the following questions to be answered next week (I hope!):
What’s the real story of the Hallie situation?
Will Danny and Harriett ever get off the roof?
What is going on with Simon and Darius?
But the best question of all was posed by Cal - what goes in after the coyote?