Funnily enough, I just watched it for the first time a couple of weeks ago.
I think it might have been a different viewing experience when it was new, but it’s hard to not view it through the modern lens where 30 Rock made it - and therefore defined the “genre” of show-about-a-SNL-type-show - and Studio 60 didn’t.
Funnily enough, I just watched it for the first time a couple of weeks ago.
I think it might have been a different viewing experience when it was new, but it’s hard to not view it through the modern lens where 30 Rock made it - and therefore defined the “genre” of show-about-a-SNL-type-show - and Studio 60 didn’t.
Wikipedia indeed includes an entire section about this in the pages for both shows: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studio_60_on_the_Sunset_Strip#Similarities_to_30_Rock / https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/30_Rock#Similarities_to_other_media
But it does answer the question of “what if in a parallel universe, 30 Rock was a slightly weirdly paced character drama?”.