I started the season trying The Nine, Six Degrees, Brothers and Sisters, 30 Rock (sucks) and Studio 60 to give the new shows a chance. Now 60 is the only one I won't miss! It cracks me up that people take all the "religious right" and "Bush Bashing" (though there really hasn't been much of that, just references to it) so seriously. Aaron Sorkin is a genius who tells a story better than anyone! Watch The West Wing Season 1 "In Excelsis Deo" or Studio 60's "The Wrap Party." It's the underlying stories that make his writing GREAT! Mrs. Landingham's boys dying at Christmas - I can't hear The Little Drummer Boy without getting chills and the elderly man wandering around the set...
You don't have to be a liberal or one of the "smart, cool kids" to love his shows, you just have to look below the surface. The media decides that the show is this or that and it turns people off. His shows have more layers than any other. Aaron Sorkin's name attached to it gives people a certain image. If people just sit back and watch with no pre-conceived notions, they will like it.
Networks have kept crap like "According to Jim" or allowed the repeated franchise of shows like Law and Order and if they don't keep this it's because it hits too close to home, getting at the entertainment industry. They really need to keep this original, creative show on. And they wonder why the ratings drop off after Hero's? You couldn't find two shows less alike and their viewers are complete opposites too (thank God!) Give it a strong lead in, what about doing a real "Must See TV" like My Name Is Earl, The Office, ER and Studio 60. It wouldn't be up against Greys and it would have a lead in that is in the right demographic. Or not on the same night as football. NBC needs to give this show a chance, and honestly it seems they haven't.
I would watch anything Aaron Sorkin writes, and hope I get to continue doing so for many years to come!!
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