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Review of Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip - The Complete Series wins £100 in Amazon vouchers for Ross McIndoe in Find-DVDs competition this April
12 May 2012
Another month - another tough decision for Find-DVDs review competition judge. Last month's prize – a considerably generous £100 pounds worth of Amazon vouchers – was won outright by Ross McIndoe for his well-written, informative review of Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip – The Complete Series.
This comedy series, originally from 2006-2007, takes us deep inside the world of US network TV. It was written by Aaron Sorkin (The West Wing/ A Few Good Men/ The Social Network/ Moneyball) and stars Matthew Perry and Bradley Whitford among others. If you haven't seen it then, according to Ross, it is well worth a look.
An excerpt from April's winning review is presented below. You can read the full version of the winning review plus all the winning reviews from the last few years on our site. If you would like the chance to win £100 of Amazon vouchers yourself then why not send in your own DVD review to the competition. You never know – it could be YOU next month receiving this fantastic prize. There are full instructions on how to enter and our rules are incredibly straightforward. We particularly do ask though that there is nothing included that could offend anyone (including bad language) and that your review doesn't appear anywhere else – it must be unique and entirely your own.
Find-DVD is totally committed to helping visitors to the site find DVDs that they will truly enjoy watching at a price to suit their pocket. We offer a comprehensive list of reputable retailers so purchasers can choose the one they prefer to use after seeing all the options and prices we are able to provide. Most of the DVDs featured on our pages have a product description supplied so visitors can get a good idea about what they are buying. All the user reviews sent in for the competition are also put on the product pages for prospective DVD purchasers to read. These are often even more helpful than the descriptions as they are written by other visitors to the site (ie not promotional material) and often contain valuable additional information provided by another like-minded person.
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In April's competition, as we have come to expect now, we received a good many really excellent DVD reviews. We would like to mention some that narrowly missed out on winning last month's prize.
Jens Hallberg - Game of Thrones – Season 1: "This is the crème de la crème when we're talking TV series on Blu-ray"
John Carrow - We Need to Talk About Kevin: "While dark and disturbing it should be said that Ramsay has also made a beautifully shot and artistic film. I certainly recommended viewing for any cinemaphiles, parents or casual viewers - though definitely not family viewing!"
Rebecca Fulton - The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 (2 Disc Limited Edition): "All in all I was pleased with the film, but I do believe that the books are better (sorry!!)"
Kashif Ahmed - Anonymous: "The script reads like Tom Stoppard meets Ezra Pound and actually makes the era rather fun and accessible without patronizing the uninitiated with Baz Luhrmann-esque post-modernism or imitating the rank absurdity of high camp, revisionist hacks like Zack Synder"
Julian Howard - Tower Heist: "Overall, an eclectic bunch of actors, a fun plot and some not-so-thinly-veiled Wall Street bashing serve to give Tower Heist a very wide appeal. Go see it."
Thank you to everyone who took part during April – please do keep sending your entries in. Your reviews are especially valuable to us and to the visitors to our site. As long as you continue to provide the competition, we will provide the prize! Good luck to all of you.
An excerpt from Ross McIndoe's review of Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip – The Complete Series
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip is possibly the most critically acclaimed member of America's "I CAN'T BELIEVE THEY CANCELED..." club.
After just a single series, Aaron Sorkin's comedy-drama went the way of Futurama, Firefly and Arrested Development; suffering unceremonious cancellation despite howls of outrage from their loyal fans.
It always puzzles me how these shows seems to suddenly acquire millions of devastated fans immediately after cancellation: if even half the people angrily flooding forums to damn the networks' stupidity and demand the revival of their favourite shows had actually been watching, then how on earth did they get cancelled in the first place? Truly puzzling.
Studio 60 takes place behind the scenes of a fictional weekly sketch-show reminiscent of Saturday Night Live supposedly drawing from Sorkin's own experiences in the industry.
The god man behind hit series The West Wing and the Oscar-winning The Social Network certainly seems in his element as characters bounce one-liners of each other at the almost super-human speed only Sorkin is capable of.
Each episode seems to contain twice as many lines as those of any other show and yet you could pluck out almost any one at random and find it to be both cleverer and funnier than the best offerings of the comedy series currently dominating American television. (Big Bang Theory, I'm looking at you)
Of course, great writing is no use if it's being read by amateurs but fortunately Studio 60's cast is devoid of even a single weak link, with stand-out performances from Friends star man Matthew Perry and Sorkin's former West Wing cohort Bradley Whitford as the best friends who run the show-within-a-show as Head Writer and Executive Producer respectively.
This gives them ample opportunity for banter as Perry plays a more grounded Chandler, floundering to try and write a new show every week whilst every conceivable thing goes wrong and Whitford tries to keep him - and everyone else - under control.
After just a single series, Aaron Sorkin's comedy-drama went the way of Futurama, Firefly and Arrested Development; suffering unceremonious cancellation despite howls of outrage from their loyal fans.
It always puzzles me how these shows seems to suddenly acquire millions of devastated fans immediately after cancellation: if even half the people angrily flooding forums to damn the networks' stupidity and demand the revival of their favourite shows had actually been watching, then how on earth did they get cancelled in the first place? Truly puzzling.
Studio 60 takes place behind the scenes of a fictional weekly sketch-show reminiscent of Saturday Night Live supposedly drawing from Sorkin's own experiences in the industry.
The god man behind hit series The West Wing and the Oscar-winning The Social Network certainly seems in his element as characters bounce one-liners of each other at the almost super-human speed only Sorkin is capable of.
Each episode seems to contain twice as many lines as those of any other show and yet you could pluck out almost any one at random and find it to be both cleverer and funnier than the best offerings of the comedy series currently dominating American television. (Big Bang Theory, I'm looking at you)
Of course, great writing is no use if it's being read by amateurs but fortunately Studio 60's cast is devoid of even a single weak link, with stand-out performances from Friends star man Matthew Perry and Sorkin's former West Wing cohort Bradley Whitford as the best friends who run the show-within-a-show as Head Writer and Executive Producer respectively.
This gives them ample opportunity for banter as Perry plays a more grounded Chandler, floundering to try and write a new show every week whilst every conceivable thing goes wrong and Whitford tries to keep him - and everyone else - under control.
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