I was wondering why the intern was still there—hasn't it been more than a year?  The hell kind of internships does ACN offer?  And then of course, it was only there, I guess, to vaguely connect with Neil's job, which includes wrangling interns as well as being on the "Red Team" for a huge story despite being totally…

I had the same thought. I also would have paid a million bucks if one of the attorneys stuck listening to Will's ramblings at the deposition had said "I've seen Assassins, too, asshole.  Can you get back to the point already?"

It cracked me up how he told Vogel he was running away with Hannah. "And Harrison!"  Total after thought.

But that's a much less interesting story. We don't know Dantana—his characters has only ever existed, on a story level, to give Sorkin an easy out for the main cast..  Contriving a story to give plausible deniability to the lead characters is not only cheap, it's simply less compelling.  By far the best parts of this…

I missed the first half for a telephone call and I'm not exactly motivated to go watch it.

Except that we've established that any technology above the light bulb and perhaps retractable pens is HARD for the ACN staff to comprehend.  Maybe that was Sorkin's bag all along—he wasn't just bloviating about how he hates the internet, he was establishing that these people are less competent with basic…

I watched every episode of Saved by the Bell when I was a kid, but I wouldn't call that "compelling," either.

That comment was gross, but Neil's girlfriend last season, aside from existing mostly for a Poignant 9/11 moment, seemed kind of cool.  Maybe that was just compared to Maggie, though.

I still can't picture the time when Will was "likable."  If they are going to throw around footage willy-nilly as we zip through months, they might as well give me a clip of that time so that I know who the hell he was supposed to be.  He certainly wasn't "likable" season 1, episode 1.  And of course, Will acting like…

She also appears to have reappeared briefly as a zombie in at least one book.  Sadly, she didn't eat Kristy's brain.

Maggie's "breakdown" would only be effective or moving if she had ever once been shown to be competent.  When she asked Jim if anyone had a problem with her "workplace" performance I almost jumped out of my chair yelling "I do! I do!"

No love for Blanche Devereaux's romance novel?

Not to mention, if I saw a "journalist" taking time out of an interview to bloviate about that, in a singularly unoriginal and egocentric way, I would think at least as badly of the journalist as the interview subject.

To me, there's something about the ponderous/moralizing content that weighs hard against the quippiness.  It also doesn't help that a lot of the "cleverness," can be pretty easily picked apart from a step back.  In Gilmore Girls, I tend to see Lorelei especially as someone who frequently will make a joke/quip for the…

I agree.  There have been a couple of stray lines where I almost felt an Alison Janney-like panache, which from me is very high praise.

I've heard you can get reduced prices, or into overbooked locales, around that date (because most people, obviously, don't want it.)

If Maggie's shtick with the pills counts as comedy, I should write a pretentious cable drama bemoaning the poor writing of Aaron Sorkin dramas.  I'm on a mission!  Seriously, that was cringe-worthy on every level, and frankly, I don't see it as an improvement over the YouTube/FourSquare debacle. 

It also had early-career Don Cheadle as the local prosecutor, on whom I had a weird grade school crush.

I liked how we saw more excellence from Miami Metro, with those two officers gossiping about Deb and then continuning at the exact volume before Quinn took three steps away.  I think if Quinn spelled his name right on the exam, that already probably put him around 70%.

In Sorkin's Manhattan, only one bar is open at 9 pm.