The first season of Sports Night is brilliant, there is no denying that. It’s funny, somewhat suspenseful in terms of events happening and, well, it just all around makes for good television. While people might complain about the stroke of Isaac as being a cheap ploy for ratings, it did fit in with reality so I think it just so happened to work perfectly fine. My only real complaint with the first season was the laugh track, but they did eventually get rid of it and, well, it’s hard to be an older show and not have a laugh track.
My problem with this show comes in the second (and final) season, which oddly did not include show killer Ted McGinley (who was in the first season only as Gordon). It seemed like the show lacked direction with the characters, such as they didn’t know what to do with Jeremy and Natalie so they split them up to date other people and create new storylines. Talk about jumping the shark. They also brought in new characters galore, while having the running theme toward the end of the season being whether or not they’d be bought out and dropped by CSC.
In some ways I’m glad Sports Night ended after two seasons because the way the second season was headed, a third season could have been disastrous. Really, you should stop watching this show after the first season if you want to maintain any sort of respect for it. Sure, the second season has its funny moments, but it also has an episode where Dana goes to dinner and comes back without wearing any underwear. (Trust me, it’s more disturbing/”Why am I watching this?” than it is sexy)
From here, Aaron Sorkin went on to “The West Wing” and then eventually “Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip” (which I loved, but I’ve never seen “The West Wing”), while Peter Krause went on to “Six Feet Under” and Josh Charles… Well, who knows what happened to Josh Charles. Sometimes I wish they’d make a sequel to “Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead” with Josh Charles and Christina Applegate as the parents leaving their kids with a babysitter. A cameo visit from Uncle Kenny would get me to watch for sure. Hey, maybe the parents could be going to Uncle Zach’s funeral. (Too cold/ too cold)
I watched Sports Night when it was on originally and again later when it was on Comedy Central in reruns, but this is my first time seeing it since it was released on DVD. It’s not quite as great as I remember it being, but nowadays nothing seems to be.
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