Sports Night

Sports Night is my favorite TV comedy ever. My wife and I didn't actually catch it the first time around, but watched it nightly in reruns until they took it off the air. Then we got the DVD set and filled in the gaps.

The basic deal is that the show is about the crew of a cable sports show pretty much exactly like SportsCenter on ESPN. But it's not really about sports; it's about these great characters and their dorky relationships.

Dialogue makes this show what it is. Aaron Sorkin of West Wing fame was the creator; he has an incredible knack for fast-paced, hilarious interactions that come and are gone one after another, nonstop, the whole time. The muse of my irony-dependent generation.

Felicity Huffman who is now a lot of fun to watch on Desperate Housewives is the producer of the fake show; Josh Charles and Peter Krause are the hosts. But the two key charcters for me are Jeremy (Joshua Malina) and Natalie (Sabrina Lloyd) --- Jeremy perhaps hits a bit close to home!

Anyways --- DVD box sets are pricey, but this one is absolutely worth it. Done.