Entry 011 - Sports Night 108 (Thespis)
In which time demands its toll
SERIES: Sports Night
EPISODE NUMBER: 108
TITLE: Thespis
PREMIERE: 17 Nov 1998
DIRECTOR: Thomas Schlamme
When a writer decides to make their work a TV series instead of a movie, that writer is making a conscious decision to enter an implied contract whereby their audience will inevitably look to be more invested in the characters of that work than they would be in the characters of a movie. As a result, part of that writer’s job will be to ensure they provide sufficient motivation to invest in each main character for the work. Up to this point with Sports Night, we’ve been given reason to feel invested in Casey in the pilot, Dan in the following episode, Jeremy in the episode after that, and Natalie a couple of episodes later.
This particular episode could arguably be considered a bottle episode, as while we’ve yet to leave the set of the Sports Night offices up to this point, this episode does considerably less in the department of temporal jumping, the timeline of this episode being essentially continuous. This episode also has no guest stars to speak of — the “guest star” billing of some non-main characters on the staff notwithstanding. It would therefore stand to reason that we should expect to receive reason to feel invested in another character in the main cast, as there should be less than usual to distract from that possibility. Indeed, this episode serves as something of a character study generally — and as for the investment presentation, we need look no further than our good friend Isaac Jaffee.
I’m still waiting to feel invested in Dana… but that’s for another entry. Let’s get into this episode now.
CHRIS: Andruw Jones is spelled with a U.
WILL: And Cris Collinsworth doesn’t have an H.
I see we’ve once again decided to forgo the No Celebrities Were Harmed policy — Andruw Jones and Cris Collinsworth are actual people in the world of sports, an outfielder for the Atlanta Braves and a football analyst for Fox NFL Sunday respectively at the time of this episode. I’m sure they’ve both had their fair share of having to correct other people’s spelling of their names in real life, so they probably don’t mind.
ELLIOT: Anybody know why there’s a 20-pound frozen turkey up in the light grid?
DAN: Dana — Elliot wants to know why there’s a 20-pound frozen turkey in the light grid.
DANA: It’s 24 pounds.
DAN: I’ll tell him that, but then he’ll probably just want to know why there’s a 24-pound frozen turkey in the light grid.
ELLIOT: Why is there a 24-pound frozen turkey up in the light grid?
DANA: I’m thawing it out.
ELLIOT: You’re thawing out a turkey on the light grid?
DANA: Anybody got a problem with that?
(general assent to DANA)
Wait, really? No one has a problem with a 24-pound frozen turkey on the light grid? That has to present a potential hazard to people on the set, no? Where did all the union reps go?
NATALIE: You don’t want to take any crap from your mother.
DANA: I really don’t.
NATALIE: You’re doing the right thing.
DANA: I need to see how long it takes to thaw.
Not to rain on your parade, Dana, but unless you have an established array of klieg lights in your kitchen, thawing out a turkey in a television show light grid isn’t exactly going to be analogous to thawing it out at home. Your timings are going to be off, sister.
DAN: By the way — you know what today is?
CASEY: It’s Monday.
DAN: What else?
CASEY: Uh, it’s November 23.
Hold up — this episode takes place… in the future? (ghost noises)
DAN: What happened on this date?
CASEY: Boston College upsets Notre Dame.
Three days off, Casey — #1 Notre Dame was upset by #17 Boston College on 20 November 1993.
DAN: Wrong.
CASEY: Gretzky’s 500th goal.
Still a day off, Casey — Wayne Gretzy scored his 500th goal on 22 November 1986.
DAN: Think.
CASEY: Alberto Salazar wins his fourth New York Marathon.
Uh oh! Carol McKechnie must have been on break when this scene was written — Alberto Salazar only won three New York Marathons in his career. The other marathon he won was the 1982 Boston Marathon, which took place on 19 April. The fourth marathon altogether he won was his third New York Marathon win, which took place on 24 October 1982.
DAN: No.
CASEY: Albert Salazar wins his third New York Marathon.
Again, whichever of the above wins you’re attempting to reference, still off, Casey.
CASEY: Let me take one more stab at it.
DAN: Go.
CASEY: Alberto Salazar wins his second New York Marathon.
25 October 1981 — come on, Case, you know the New York Marathon has never been run later than 14 November, you’re barking up the wrong tree.
NEW Sorkin Name: Cathy
DANA: Is there a problem with Cathy?
RETURNING Sorkin Name: Esther
Previous instance: The American President
ISAAC: There’s no problem, but she’s due in ten days. Esther flew out there this morning to be with her. She should’ve landed by now but I haven’t heard from either of them yet.
Maybe she’s busy giving Annette Bening a discreet ride home?
DANA: Isaac, Esther and Cathy are fine, you’re going to be a grandfather in ten days, so try not to make everybody crazy.
ISAAC: Esther and I had a fight this morning before she left.
DANA: What about?
ISAAC: Nothing.
Huh? Why did you bring it up if you didn’t want to talk about it, Isaac?
CASEY: Jeremy — November 23rd, does that date ring a bell? And don’t go to the computer.
JEREMY: Don’t have to.
CASEY: What is it?
JEREMY: It was on this day in 534 B.C. [sic] that Thespis stepped out onto the stage of the Theatre Dionysis during a choral song-and-dance and became the first man to speak words as an actor in a play.
I did an web search on the subject and couldn’t find any sources dated before this episode aired pinpointing the date Thespis became the first actor to 23 November. Sources since then establish it as a known phenomenon in the theatre world, though, so given Mr. Sorkin got his start in theatre I’m not inclined to challenge the assertion.
DANA: Thespis?
JEREMY: The first actor, now a mischievous ghost — he likes to wreak havoc on performances of any kind. I’d brace yourself for a strange show tonight.
…
DANA: This show’s locked up tight as a drum.
JEREMY: Thespis likes a challenge.
DANA: Thespis has been dead for 2500 years.
JEREMY: You really think you should be baiting him like this?
“You might as well be shouting ‘Macbeth’ while standing under the light grid.”
(DANA trips and falls on her face)
DANA: Alright, why wasn’t I briefed about this Thespis thing before?
Probably an unintentional bit of Fridge Brilliance here — the in-universe Sports Night is established to be just over two years old at this point. With 23 November falling on a Monday the year of this airing, the previous two years both had 23 November fall on a weekend, so this show would actually be the first Sports Night show to air on a 23 November. There would therefore not have been any reason for Dana to be briefed on Thespis before this point.
JEREMY: It’s bad to panic, Dana, Thespis can smell fear a mile away.
Apparently Thespis is a ghostly hound, now?
NATALIE: Nothing’s going wrong.
DANA: Not if we can get through the top half hour.
JEREMY: (as if to the sky) Mortals…
You’re one of us, Jeremy, watch your mouth.
CASEY: We’ll take you out to Pauley Pavilion for a Pac-10 match up you won’t believe, and we’ll take you out to Watkins Glen for a NASCAR rules explanation we can’t understand.
Oh, like NASCAR rules can ever be explained understandably…
DAN: The MLS, Major League Soccer — and if you know me, you know I eat, drink, and breathe soccer.
(beep) Sarcasm Self Test complete! (beep)
RETURNING Sorkin Name: Doug(las)
Previous instance: The American President
ISAAC: He doesn’t know the route.
…
ISAAC: I asked him to rehearse the route but he wouldn’t listen.
DANA: You’re babbling, Isaac.
ISAAC: He hasn’t rehearsed the route.
DANA: Who?
ISAAC: Douglas, my son-in-law — how can he find the hospital if he hasn’t rehearsed the route?
MapQuest, maybe?
DANA: Isn’t Douglas a radar officer in the Navy?
ISAAC: Yes, and if we were scrambling F-16s, I’d trust him to find the flight deck of the U.S.S. Coral Sea, but we’re having a baby, and you can’t find Berkeley General unless you rehearse the route.
I’m getting the sense he wants his son-in-law to rehearse the route, are you?
ISAAC: Think that’s crazy?
ELLIOT: No crazier than thawing out a turkey on the light grid.
ISAAC: What are you doing on the light grid?
DANA: It’s not important.
Wow, way to throw Dana under the bus, Elliot.
DAN: For more on that, we go to Tracy Heller who is standing outside the Detroit Wed Wings rocker room — the Red Rings rocker room.
DANA: Oh, man…
DANA: (laughs) Or possibly the Detroit Red Wings… locker room.
Uh oh! Looks like someone skipped a week with their diction coach! Hope that never happens again…sarcasm detected
NEW Sorkin Drink: Jägermeister
DAN: Today is our anniversary.
CASEY: Geez, Dan, that night in Minneapolis with the Jägermeister, we didn’t do anything untoward, did we?
DAN: You mean did we get married?
CASEY: Yeah.
DAN: No.
CASEY: Good.
Cowards.
NEW Dialogue Motif: St. Crispin’s Day speech reference
DAN: We recited the St. Crispin’s Day speech in the lobby of the St. Paul Radisson.
CASEY: Was it untoward?
DAN: No, it was just embarrassing.
Oh, come on, how could reciting Shakespeare ever be embarrassing? That’s a point deduction for you, Danny.
DAN: It’s the anniversary of our first show — November 23rd, five years ago.
CASEY: No, we went on the air two years ago last July.
DAN: I’m not talking about Sports Night, I’m talking about our first broadcast.
CASEY: … Lone Star.
DAN: Lone Star sports.
Okay, I’m gonna have to throw a flag on this play — are we to believe a Texas television station would willingly hire a couple of Yankees to do their sports broadcasting? That seems like kind of a stretch to me.
RETURNING Verbal Tic: What do you want from me
Running count: 4
CASEY: What do you want from me?
DAN: Nothing, Casey — I’m just going to sit overhere and do my show.
CASEY: Impersonating my ex-wife never won anyone a place in my heart.
Damn, it hasn’t even been a year and you’re already saying shit like that about her? Must have felt like an eternity for you so far…
NEW Dialogue Motif: Step in the right direction
DAN: It’s an important day to me.
CASEY: It’s an important day to me, too.
DAN: (laughs) I don’t think it is.
CASEY: How can I prove it to you?
DAN: Remembering it would be a step in the right direction.
We’re once again being treated by Mr. Sorkin to the characters knowing more than the audience — it’s clear on a close watch that Casey does remember the day, but not for the reasons we (and Dan as well, in a twist on the usual) are expecting.
NATALIE: So Thespis is the Roman god of theatre?
JEREMY: That’s exactly right, except he’s not Roman and he’s not a god.
Dude? That’s an insulting bit of sarcasm directed at someone who kissed you recently.
NATALIE: What is he?
JEREMY: He’s Greek, and he’s a ghost.
DANA: Who’s Artemis?
…
JEREMY: Artemis is goddess of the moon, the hunt, chastity, and fertility.
(everyone oohs and aahs)
DANA: Your boy knows his mythology.
NATALIE: Give him another one.
KIM: Athena.
…
JEREMY: Goddess of wisdom, the arts, and war.
CASEY: Mercury.
“Cut! Come on, Casey, that’s the Roman name for the god, the Greek name is Hermes.”
JEREMY: God of commerce, wrestling, gymnastics, thieving, good luck, sleep, wealth, and dreams.
Wait, what? Why aren’t you correcting him, Jeremy?! You were quick to correct Natalie earlier!
RETURNING Dialogue Motif: ‘Woman’ as an insult
Previous instance: Sports Night 103
DAN: I remember what you were wearing. Do you remember what I was wearing?
CASEY: I remember not thinking at the time that you were a woman.
(sigh) Here we go with my least favorite Sorkinism — I wouldn’t have minded those two lines being cut.
ISAAC: Kim, get me on the next flight to San Francisco.
KIM: What do you need me to do —
ISAAC: Do it now. (leaves)
DANA: Uh… take over. (hands clipboard to NATALIE) Natalie’s got the wheel everybody. (follows ISAAC out)
NATALIE: (two beats) Put up 20, 21, and 22 on a preview screen. Casey, heads up — I need you to stretch a 20 blind roll into a 30.
I have no idea what any of that means, but it sounds like she knows what she’s doing.
NEW Plot Bunny: Bleeding pregnancy
ISAAC: She was cleaning the kitchen when Esther got there. Esther said she doubled over in pain and started screaming. The O.B. said there was massive internal bleeding. She was unconscious when she got to the E.R.
Just as well, you probably don’t want her seeing George Clooney while her husband isn’t around.
ISAAC: She’s nine months pregnant, what’s she doing cleaning the kitchen?
DANA: She’s hoping to make a good impression on her mother.
But she has a husband, does she not? Why wasn’t he doing the cleaning? Lazy bastard…
DANA: Did they say anything to you about something called placenta previa?
ISAAC: That’s what it is.
DANA: It happened to my brother’s wife, Shelly — two weeks before she was due, massive hemorrhaging, rushed to the hospital.
ISAAC: What happened?
DANA: Shelly was fine.
ISAAC: What about the baby?
DANA: … They lost the baby, but Shelly was fine.
For those like me who have never heard of placenta previa: it’s a condition whereby the placenta for a pregnancy covers the cervical opening to the uterus. As C-sections are a normal fact of life these days, that by itself doesn’t sound like that big of a problem, but it does have the potential to introduce stunting of fetal growth or even fetal death, and indeed can lead to copious bleeding for the mother in many cases. Incidentally, the condition does have higher prevalence with Black women than with White women in the United States, so Isaac’s daughter’s having the condition lends some (probably unintentional) verisimilitude to the Sports Night universe.
CASEY: Miami of Ohio and Bowling Green State aren’t two teams that are normally in the national spotlight, unless you’re talking about their departments of physics and Native American studies, respectively…
Things appear to have changed since 1998, as my searches on Miami University of Ohio and Bowling Green State University found nothing significant about their physics department and Native American studies department respectively. Was that line continuation an improv, perhaps?
CHRIS: There’s water dripping on the desk.
DANA: What desk?
CHRIS: The anchor desk.
DANA: Natalie, get someone up there and find out what’s going on. I was gone three minutes, is there anything that didn’t get screwed up?
Wow, way to sound like you have no confidence in Natalie at all, Dana…
CASEY: Thank you, Matt. We’re gonna take a break for two and a half minutes and pay some bills, but when we come back, we’re gonna have college hoops, bowl predictions, and a steeplechase that got out of hand.
For those who had to look it up like I did: steeplechase is a track and field event involving a combination of jump barriers and water jumps along the course. I’m kind of scared to see what ‘getting out of hand’ involves there…
Also, I’m getting memories of my childhood watching SportsCenter here — I seem to have a strong recollection of “paying the bills” being a semi-frequent introduction to commercial breaks on that show as well. Nice little throw-in from Mr. Sorkin here.
DANA: I’m not going to be beaten by a 6000-year-old Roman god.
JEREMY: He’s a 3000-year-old Greek ghost.
DANA: Well, I’m a 33-year-old television producer, and for one hour every night, this is my little corner of the world, and nothing screws up here unless I screw it up!
Hold on…
Hmm… she would have been 36 at the time of filming. Was the back-aging of her character intentional?
DANA: Why is there still water dripping on this desk?
(thawed-out turkey lands on the desk)
DAN: … Say, Dana — this wouldn’t happen to be your frozen turkey by any chance now, would it?
“Whatever gave you that idea?”
DAN: Just answer me this.
CASEY: What are you, the Riddler?
No, that directive would make him the Answerer instead… eh, that doesn’t really work.
DAN: Was it ‘cause of what happened with Conan O’Brien’s show?
CASEY: It had nothing to do with Conan’s show, you’ve made way too much out of that. My name was mentioned (over DAVE counting back) a couple of times, I was never seriously considered for the show. (to camera) In this week’s police blotter, a judge in New York has issued a court order…
The consummate professional here — he’s able to switch his mood immediately to something appropriate for the camera, despite what’s happening off-camera. Also, +1 to audience awareness with the drop of Conan O’Brien’s name.
CASEY: It was a good show, Danny.
DAN: It wasn’t good enough for Lisa.
CASEY: Yeah, what was good enough for Lisa?!
Absolutely nothing, it would seem.
DAN: Casey, I’ve known you for ten years. We’ve been working together for five of them.
Casual bit of backstory thrown in — to my recollection, how they met ten years ago then didn’t partner up until five years later isn’t ever elaborated on, but I will pay attention as we go through the rest of the series.
NEW Sorkin Name: Jankowitz
CASEY: Natalie, how much time do I have?
NATALIE: Uh, another fifteen seconds on this, then Dan’s got two minutes, then a two minute c-break.
CASEY: I’m gonna stretch my legs. (leaves the studio)
DAVE: We’re back in three, two…
DAN: (to camera) We’ll come back to Jack Jankowitz later on in our show. In women’s college hoops…
Another consummate professional here, I see.
CASEY: You want some company?
ISAAC: No.
CASEY: Tough. (sits)
You know he can fire you, right?
ISAAC: Did a big frozen turkey fall down on the anchor desk during the last commercial?
Oh, guess he doesn’t care…
ISAAC: Esther and I had an argument this morning before she left for the airport.
CASEY: About what?
ISAAC: She said I wasn’t showing enough enthusiasm about the baby.
Wait — so you won’t tell Dana what the argument was about but you’ll tell Casey? Why don’t you want to tell Dana? Surely it’s not just because you were in a control room full of people earlier, because Dana came to your office alone earlier as well. What am I missing?
ISAAC: I’ve been feeling my age — I was rude to my son-in-law, I said to my daughter Cathy that I was too young to be a grandfather. What the hell kinda thing is that to say to your daughter?
Hold on…
So he would have been… 70 at the time of the episode. Yeah, that definitely was an asinine thing to say, my guy.
CASEY: In a funny way, Danny and I are having the same fight right now — only he doesn’t know it’s about a fight Lisa and I had five years ago.
+1 to audience awareness.
ISAAC: You’ve never told him, have you?
CASEY: No.
ISAAC: Why?
CASEY: I don’t know.
Neither do we!
ISAAC: So you say a few words, you make a gesture, you remember an important date — small price to pay for what you get in return. For what you get in return, it’s a steal.
Damn, you can tell he’s thinking of his marriage, but he knows the concept applies to long-lasting friendships as well. Ain’t that a heartwarming thing…
NEW Non-Verbal Signature: Hug misfire
(CASEY walks up to ISAAC)
ISAAC: What?
CASEY: … I was going to hug you.
ISAAC: Oh, please don’t.
CASEY: As a gesture.
ISAAC: Oh… okay. (laughs)
(CASEY and ISAAC hug)
God, I fucking love you, Robert…
DANA: I’ve named this Thanksgiving. I’m calling it “The Thanksgiving of Mom’s Disapproval”. Included on the two-record set are the hit songs “Why aren’t you married?” and “Sports is no place for an educated woman” and “Didn’t anyone ever tell you how to cook a turkey?”
“Order now, and you’ll get the special bonus edition featuring songs of your uncle going off on unhinged political rants!”
NEW Dialogue Motif: By and large
DANA: Tell me the mission of Thespis, what’s his M.O.?
JEREMY: By and large, the mission of any ghost is to offer humility. They point out what’s important by mocking what is not.
You mean to say Thespis thinks this sports broadcast is not important? Are you sure you meant to imply that to its EP’s face, Jeremy?
DANA: I’m not sold.
Me neither!
DANA: How am I bothering Thespis? What have I done? What have I done to this ghost — who, by the way, no one has ever heard of but you — what have I done that he should choose, like Jacob Marley, to spend an entire night in the studio just slapping us around?
Not to nitpick, Dana, but Jacob Marley didn’t spend the night at Scrooge’s place, he only came to tell Scrooge three ghosts would be coming in a few hours. It would be more appropriate to say Thespis, more mercurial, makes himself known in his own due time.
JEREMY: You’re underestimating your mother. You get to see your family, what, twice a year? Savor it. Your mother’s gonna love you whether or not you screw up the turkey.
DANA: My mother’s gonna annoy me whether or not I screw up the turkey.
JEREMY: Which leads us to the conclusion that your mother loves you, even though she annoys you — and it’s Thanksgiving, so which do you wanna focus on?
I probably sound like a broken record on this point, but damn, has Jeremy built up quite the confidence in his job. The Jeremy of six episodes ago would never have had the confidence to put his foot down on Dana’s behavior like he does here — he’s theoretically risking his job doing so, but he knows he’ll be taken seriously enough for that not to be a problem. Case in point:
DANA: For a guy who’s read The Hobbit fourteen times, you’re not so dumb.
FOURTEEN!
Half-hearted insult at Tolkien nerds aside, Dana’s response indicates a comfortable camaraderie with Jeremy that’s typically not expected of two people who haven’t even known each other for three months. Happy band of misfits, indeed…
CASEY: I was on television for a while there and then I wasn’t anymore.
DANA: That’s got to be pretty disturbing for someone like you.
CASEY: I think it’d be pretty disturbing for someone like you, too.
DANA: It’s a television show, Casey, I’m not thinking about worldly things at the moment.
But… a television show is a worldly thing, no?
CASEY: Okay — is anyone?!?!
I’d say that’s an appropriate response!
CASEY: A power grid’s down, we’re supposed to stand by.
DAN: Thank you.
CASEY: Was gonna buy us some flowers on the way back from the control room, but…
“I called the flower shop down the street and they didn’t believe me when I told them my name.”callback detected
NEW Plot Bunny: Turned down a talk show
CASEY: Danny… they offered me Conan’s show.
DAN: They did?
CASEY: Yeah.
DAN: They offered it to you?
CASEY: They made — there was an offer, they offered me the show.
DAN: And you passed?
CASEY: Yeah.
Little bit of meta here: NBC’s Late Night with Conan O’Brien did indeed start in 1993 — five years ago as of this episode, which lines up with the indicated anniversary. Interestingly, the year following this episode SportsCenter alumnus Craig Kilborn would be offered and accept the host duties for the CBS timeslot competitor to Conan — and Craig Kilborn was reportedly one of the inspirations for Casey’s character.
DAN: You passed on your own network show.
CASEY: Yeah.
DAN: To work with me in Dallas.
CASEY: It was clear we were going national.
DAN: No, it wasn’t.
Oh, man… Danny, you suck at taking an implied compliment, my guy.
DAN: If you passed on the show… Lisa must’ve gone thermal.
CASEY: She wasn’t happy.
DAN: … Case? Was that the beginning of the end… with you and Lisa?
CASEY: Yeah.
I didn’t notice it until now, but Casey still didn’t really tell Dan outright that he and Lisa had a fight the day of their first broadcast, just that “she wasn’t happy”. Dan seems to read between the lines, though:
DAN: You would’ve been great.
CASEY: I would’ve been embarrassing.
DAN: That is flat out not true. What did that woman do to your confidence? How many hits did you have to take to your ego?
Dan immediately pinpoints where Casey’s insecurity on the matter comes from and is quick to provide the underhanded “fuck Lisa, amirite” needed to counteract it. As slow as he is to admit it, Casey certainly appears to appreciate it:
DAN: You would’ve been great. You would have been very good.
CASEY: … Thank you.
DAN: You’re very good on this show.
CASEY: Oh yeah, I know. (awkward pause) But thanks for saying so — I appreciate the gesture.
Not gonna return the compliment, Casey? “You’re very good, too, Dan” — not gonna say that? Perhaps we stroked your ego too hard there…
RETURNING Sorkin Name: Matt/Matthew
Previous instances: A Few Good Men, Malice
DANA: Tell me what happened.
ISAAC: (holds up a cigar) I got a six-pound eight-ounce grandson named Matthew and his mother’s doing just fine.
Oh, well, that ended quickly — I suppose not every troubled pregnancy has to last for five episodes.foreshadowing detected
NEW Plot Bunny: New father’s cigars
DANA: Hey, guys! Isaac’s a grandfather!
CASEY: Hey, congratulations!
DAN: Mazel tov!
ISAAC: Healthy baby boy — have a cigar.
Woah, hold up — you’re handing out cigars but didn’t give one to Dana earlier?
ISAAC: How come we’re not on the air?
DANA: We’ve had our share of technical problems tonight as well as paranormal interference, but we think once we get done with the top half hour, we should be out of the mythological penalty box, if you will.
ISAAC: Anybody know what the hell she’s talking about?
Trust me, you don’t want to know, Isaac.
Also, what the hell, you’re still leaving out Dana and Natalie with the cigar distribution! Are women just not allowed to have a cigar in their mouth in your mind?
ELLIOT: Listen to this phone call I just got — Frank and Kathy Lee Gifford were accepting a humanitarian award over at the Sheraton. Kathie Lee got up to the podium, slipped, and fell face first into a plate of tapioca.
DANA: At the Sheraton?
ELLIOT: Yeah.
DANA: All the way across town?
ELLIOT: Yeah.
DANA: Ah! Ladies and gentlemen, Thespis has left the building!
I did a search and couldn’t find anything that could have inspired this story of Kathy Lee Gifford faceplanting into tapioca. On a side note, though… the year before this episode aired, Frank Gifford was caught up in an extramarital affair scandal, so the suggestion that Thespis has gone on to bother Kathy rather than Frank when his supposed M.O. is to mock what’s unimportant is… questionable.
Okay, well, I’ll have to shake that off to get into the episode review — all in all, a solid bottle episode. Casey’s and Dan’s lingering insecurities are verbalized and addressed appropriately after a good deal of resistance on their parts; Jeremy’s confidence in his job is appropriately used to give Dana a crash course in addressing her own insecurities; and finally, Isaac’s character is given further human depth that gives us (further) reason to root for him like we already are for other characters. That last bit admittedly probably could have been explored further, but arguably the slightly open-ended approach to the subplot makes for some better payoff in later episodes — as unintentional as it may have been at the time…
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