Revisit “K&R Part I” with me tonight
If you’ve been following along with my Studio 60 Revisited Monday marathon, we’re now coming closer to the end with the first of the three K&R episodes. K&R Part I was the nineteenth episode, and originally aired on June 7, 2007. The director was Cal Shanley himself, Timothy Busfield.
As I wrote back in November of last year, when this episode aired for the first time in the U.K.: “Among the other plots in this and the coming episodes was the approximately 3,685th take of Matt and Harriet’s conflict about religion; flashbacks to the days after 9/11 and the disagreements between Jack, Matt and Danny over the way the show should respond; and Jordan’s pregnancy complications, leading to an emergency C-section. But if you’re a romantic like me, the thing you’ll remember most from this episode is Danny’s marriage proposal — a perfect blend of sweetness and snappiness that perfectly captures the Jordan-Danny dynamic. Seeing it again makes me wish all the more that we could have seen their relationship grow over another season or two or four.”
This episode is, if I recall correctly, the last we see of Jordan until the series’ final episode, “What Kind of Day Has It Been” — though unlike “The Disaster Show,” at least this time she has a good excuse for being missing in action. Tune in tonight and join me for the start of the trilogy that took our Studio 60 heroes to the edge of disaster and back, then come back during the week for a review, recap, memorable lines, and five questions.
Studio 60, NBC, K&R Part I, commentary
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