Entry 018 - Sports Night 115 (Dana and the Deep Blue Sea)
In which we're served some cheese, with a side of pie
SERIES: Sports Night
EPISODE NUMBER: 115
TITLE: Dana and the Deep Blue Sea
PREMIERE: 9 Feb 1999
DIRECTOR: Thomas Schlamme
It’s quite hard for any television series to survive the scrutiny of someone going episode by episode and analysing each episode individually. For one, such an analysis method does have a tendency to lose sight of the bigger picture, which is part of what makes analysing a standalone movie considerably easier through the same means. For two, by and large television studios don’t produce their shows with the expectation of their material getting fine-tooth combed in such a manner, and as such tend not to focus on many details your average English teacher will insist are important — it’s no less true for a series largely written by a single person as it is for a series written by a rotating roster of writers.
Mr. Sorkin’s penchant for focusing on the musicality of prosaic spoken word, as undoubtedly pleasant as it is to hear, does tend to yield moments of questionable content behind those words, which are hard to escape in a format like this project. This episode is no different: one plot thread continues the trend of a woman presenting as unnecessarily insecure, and another plot thread almost certainly wouldn’t have survived if its first airing were in the midst of the #MeToo movement. One could argue the ends justify the means, of course… but I think the jury is still out on that — let’s step through the episode now to see where I land.
CASEY: (on a graphic of Wayne Gretzky) Seriously — keep an eye on this guy, my gut instinct says he’s got a future in the NHL.
Two months after this episode aired, Wayne Gretzky announced his retirement as a player. Way to jinx it, Case.
NEW Plot Bunny: The Recommendation Inundation™
DAN: A little recon is all I’m asking.
CASEY: No.
DAN: You go up there —
CASEY: No.
DAN: — you introduce yourself —
CASEY: No.
DAN: — and you recommend me.
CASEY: (beat) I recommend you?
DAN: Yes.
CASEY: No.
DAN: Casey, come on.
CASEY: You want me to walk into the office of a woman I don’t know, a woman who has turned you down each and every one of the seventeen times that you have asked her out, to recommend you?
DAN: Yes.
CASEY: No.
Good on you, Case — make sure Dan understands that no means no! Seventeen attempts, good fucking lord…
DAN: I’m not distracted.
RETURNING Verbal Tic: Musical theatre appeal
Running count: 4
DAN: The sophomore sensation credits her agility and quick first step to her father, who used to take her to a neighborhood park all covered with cheese.
Uh oh! Looks like someone skipped another week with their diction coach! No good ever comes from that!
JEREMY: Did he just say cheese?
ELLIOT: He did just say cheese.
DANA: What was it supposed to be?
JEREMY: What was it supposed to be?
NATALIE: Let me find it.
…
JEREMY: How about a park all covered with trees?
NATALIE: He said cheese?
JEREMY: Welcome to the show.
For those who don’t know the reference — “a park all covered with trees” is a (slight mis-)quoting of the titular song from Tell Me on a Sunday, a one-woman musical written by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Don Black.
CASEY: A neighborhood park all covered with cheese?
DAN: (beat) Did I say cheese?
CASEY: You said cheese.
DAN: Dana, did I say “park all covered with cheese”?
DANA: There’s a consensus, yes.
…
CASEY: Are we sure it’s wrong? Are we sure the park isn’t all covered with cheese?
DAN: It’s covered with trees, and shut up. (pause for laughs)
Fuck me, I had almost forgotten about the laugh track…
RETURNING Verbal Tic: Dangling modifier correction
Running count: 3
CASEY: “The sophomore sensation credits her agility and quick first step to her father, who used to take her to a neighborhood park all covered with cheese.” Dana, we got all kinds of sentence construction here. I think he’s going to have to explain that it’s the park that’s covered with cheese, and not the father.
DAN: This is an unforgiving room.
NATALIE: Plus, it’s a little hard to figure how running through cheese helped the kid with her agility and quick first step.
DAN: Thank you, everyone!
Serves you right for skipping a week with your diction coach, Dan.
CASEY: Boy, will I be happy when someone gets me the film on Albert Belle. That would be a happy moment for me.
Once again, we’re forgoing the No Celebrities Were Harmed policy — Albert Belle was at the time the MLB’s highest-paid baseball player, who had signed for the Baltimore Orioles not long before this episode aired after having a demand for a raise declined by the Chicago White Sox. The man had a reputation for being outright hostile toward the media, so his inclusion here is perhaps a little questionable, but I suppose those employed by Sports Night are less likely to care than other outlets.
DANA: I’m going snorkeling off the island of Latok.
CASEY: Where’s Latok?
DANA: I do not know.
Carol McKechnie went on break at a bad time again, it appears — Latok is not the name of any island, but rather the name of a group of peaks in the Karakoram mountain range in Pakistan. I have a hard time believing snorkeling is a popular event there…
CASEY: I’m assuming this is with Gordon?
DANA: He asked me last night.
CASEY: Just the two of you?
DANA: Just the two of us… and three other couples. What does that sound like to you?
CASEY: A total of four couples.
What is it with Gordon’s tendency to take Dana out on group dates? First we have the double-date with Casey and a blind date, now we’ve upped the ante with twice as many couples! Is Gordon starting to get scared of taking Dana out on a date alone or something?
DANA: It sounds good, doesn’t it?
CASEY: The snorkeling?
DANA: That he asked me — just the two of us, just the eight of us, off the island of Latok.
CASEY: Sounds like a lot of people are going to be having sex with a lot of other people who aren’t me.
I don’t know, man, I wouldn’t think sex would be all that comfortable while snorkeling…
DANA: Gordon asked me to go snorkeling.
NATALIE: Is he going, too?
DANA: Of course he’s — yes! You think he called me and said, “Dana, I want you to go away from me and snorkel?”
“Here’s your sign.”
DANA: God, you don’t think that’s what he meant, do you? Absolutely not — I’m going snorkeling!
Um, okay, Dana, you made your point, no need to overheat…
NEW Plot Bunny: Afraid of fish
DANA: You have to help me.
NATALIE: Why?
DANA: ‘Cause I’m going snorkeling.
NATALIE: What’s the problem?
…
DANA: I’m afraid of fish.
NATALIE: (beat) You’re afraid of fish?
DANA: I’m afraid of fish, Natalie, fish frighten me in a very real way.
…
NATALIE: Well, that puts you in a bit of a pickle.
DANA: Well, what do you think I should do?
NATALIE: I don’t even know what the problem is.
DANA: Then why did you say I was in a pickle?
NATALIE: It’s fun to say.
She’s right, it is! In a pickle, in a pickle, in a pickle, in a pickle… (Disclaimer: my high school mascot is a pickle.)
DANA: I thought maybe you were going to say I shouldn’t go, because I’m not really in love with Gordon.
NATALIE: And secretly in love with Casey?
DANA: Yeah.
NATALIE: No.
DANA: I thought you were gonna say that.
NATALIE: I’m not.
DANA: I’m glad.
Hey, me too! Welcome to the land of functioning adults, Natalie!
NATALIE: Well, how about, when everyone goes snorkeling, you stay here in New York with Casey whom you secretly love?
FUCK!
DAN: I just think if she saw me on the show, she would like me. I’m my best on the show. It’s what I want people to see, I put all day into one hour and I’m proud of it…
I kind of wish this gem of a line were placed in a different context — having a character explicitly verbalize the dedication to their craft that’s been implicitly apparent (cheese blunder aside) makes for a refreshing beat in most scenarios. That we get this in the midst of Dan’s inability to take ‘no’ as an answer serves to sour the otherwise heartwarming moment, however.
CASEY: How many times have you approached this woman?
DAN: All together?
CASEY: Yes.
DAN: (beat) Nine times.
CASEY: Including the flowers?
DAN: Twelve times.
CASEY: And waiting by the elevator?
DAN: Fifteen times.
CASEY: Okay, now —
DAN: Seventeen times.
CASEY: Seventeen times.
Good lord, must we have Dan’s character lobotomized like this? I would find this plot less objectionable if Rebecca hadn’t unequivocally declined Dan’s advances just last episode. Contrast the pursuit here with the pursuit in The American President: President Shepherd’s advances on Sydney could perhaps be perceived to be just as strong, but the difference there is that Sydney at no point ever said, “I’m not interested, Mr. President.” Sure, she had her moments of hesitation, but those moments were driven more by thoughts of political consequences rather than anything actually relevant to the relationship. That Mr. Sorkin evidently couldn’t tell the difference between the two contexts makes for some episodes of television that are hard to watch all these years later — and yes, this isn’t the only such episode, as the plot bunny labelled at the top foreshadows.
CASEY: And what has she said each time?
DAN: Well, it usually runs something along the lines of, “Dan, I’m not interested.”
CASEY: Okay.
DAN: “Dan, you’re a nice guy, but I’m just not interested.”
CASEY: So let me ask, have you explored the possibility that she’s not interested?
Sources point to no.
DAN: I will not be the subject of your mockery.
CASEY: Oh, I think you shall.
Indeed!
RETURNING Verbal Tic: How ya doin’
Running count: 9
DAN: Hi.
JEREMY: How ya doin’?
DAN: I need a favor.
JEREMY: Is this about Rebecca?
DAN: Rebecca?
JEREMY: Yes.
DAN: No.
JEREMY: I’m rooting for you, Dan…
Are you serious right now, Jeremy? You’re rooting for someone explicitly ignoring a woman’s rejection of his advances?
JEREMY: Bad things happen to people when they get involved in other people’s business, a lesson I’m trying to teach Natalie.
You are?! Why has this interaction been off-camera so far?! You should be trying harder, Jeremy!
DAN: I’d like you to go up to her office, on some excuse, and then say some nice things about me.
JEREMY: Let me tell you why I’m not gonna do that — I’ll look like a jackass!
DAN: You would look sweet.
JEREMY: I don’t think so.
DAN: Women love this.
JEREMY: Stalking?
DAN: Yeah.
What the fuck?!
JEREMY: Not as much as you may think.
Tell him, brother!
DAN: Is there nothing I wouldn’t do for you? (beat) All the help I gave you with Natalie… is there nothing I wouldn’t do for you? And this is how I’m to be repaid?
The difference, Dan, is that you helped Jeremy get together with someone who wanted to be with him anyway!
RETURNING Dialogue Motif: ‘Motherly’ dig
Previous instance: Sports Night 101
DAN: See, you’re about to cave.
JEREMY: No, I just can’t believe how much you sounded like my mother just then.
Your mother asked you to help her get someone to go out on a date with her? What the hell kind of family do you have going on, Jeremy? First a sister who’s nearly half your current age, now this…
JEREMY: What possible excuse can I give for stopping by her office?
DAN: You’ll think of something.
JEREMY: I won’t think of something.
DAN: You will.
JEREMY: I won’t.
DAN: You’re good on your feet.
JEREMY: I’m not good on my feet.
DAN: You really are.
JEREMY: I’m really not.
On the bright side, this episode still possesses the natural Sorkin cadence.
ISAAC: You’re afraid of fish?
DANA: And I’m not ashamed to admit it.
ISAAC: There aren’t gonna be any sharks down there.
DANA: We don’t know what the hell’s down there, it’s down there. It’s their home court. They know what they’re doing down there. They can breathe down there.
“They’re just down there being down there, you know?”
ISAAC: You eat fish, don’t you?
DANA: And don’t you think they know that?
(ISAAC laughs)
Yeah, I’d say that’s an appropriate response, Isaac.
ISAAC: Is everything alright?
DANA: Yeah.
ISAAC: No, I mean with you and Gordon — is everything alright?
DANA: Yeah, I’m just — I’m 33… and I’m very much afraid of fish.
Oh, so the back-aging of Dana’s character seven episodes ago was intentional, was it? I’m making a note of that now.
Also, you gotta hand it to Isaac — he’s largely shown polite disinterest in the social lives of his employees, but in this moment he can tell something’s genuinely not adding up with Dana and is quick to ask after it in earnest. As much as he’s loathe to dive into other people’s B.S., he’s still obviously invested in the well-being of those in his employ, as this moment shows. If only Dana had been more accepting of his implied offer to listen…
RETURNING Dialogue Motif: Perfectly fair question
Previous instance: Sports Night 105
JEREMY: Hi.
REBECCA: Hi.
JEREMY: Oh, uh, I can wait ‘til you’re off the phone.
REBECCA: What’s this about?
JEREMY: That’s a perfectly fair question.
Too bad you don’t have a perfectly fair answer…
JEREMY: Well, I’m here to welcome you, actually. You’re new here and I came to say welcome — welcome to the building.
REBECCA: I’ve been working here for three years.
JEREMY: Yes, I misspoke — I’m new here.
REBECCA: And you came by to say welcome.
JEREMY: Yes.
Boy, Jeremy wasn’t kidding about not being good on his feet!
REBECCA: Dan sent you.
JEREMY: Yes.
REBECCA: To say nice things about him.
JEREMY: (starts pulling out list) I have a list!
REBECCA: Is everyone who works on your show deranged?
JEREMY: I swear, everyone but me.
Nobody roll the footage of his miscalculating how many six letter words there are in the English language.
JEREMY: Won’t you please go out with Dan?
REBECCA: Well, god… maybe, ‘cause at cheerleader tryouts, Kiki did say Dan was talking about me in the cafeteria.
Damn, is that sarcasm fitting — Dan’s pursuit of Rebecca really does come off as some high school-level childishness.
REBECCA: I would think he could have any woman he wants.
JEREMY: He wants you.
REBECCA: He wants me today.
JEREMY: Well, for the last week.
REBECCA: Yes.
JEREMY: (beat) What were we talking about?
Nothing, just leave already.
REBECCA: I’ve had experience with sportscasters.
Wait, what? That wasn’t what we were talking about!
JEREMY: What kind of experience?
REBECCA: I was married to one.
So, uh… +1 to audience awareness, I guess? I’m not exactly sold…
REBECCA: They are self-absorbed, narrow-minded, immature people of limited intelligence and limitless ego.
Nope, I’m definitely not sold — this admission just comes straight out of nowhere. She had literally no reason to verbalize why she’s been rejecting Dan’s advances, but she nonetheless offers up why to Jeremy on a silver latter. She should never have been in a position where she felt she had to do that, but Dan really just had to ruin her self-control. (sigh) This episode…
RETURNING Dialogue Motif: X, don’t X [up to you]
Previous instance: The American President
JEREMY: Hey, look — go out with him or don’t go out with him, but for the record nothing you just said describes Dan.
I mean… good on you for defending your friend, Jeremy, but for the record, Dan has been acting rather immature lately.
And now, ladies and gentlemen, it’s time for the latest installment of Those Two Guys™:
WILL: You need to erase that.
CHRIS: I scratched it out.
DANA: Alright, Tampa Bay —
WILL: If you used a pencil, you could erase that.
CHRIS: I like to use a pen.
DANA: Tampa Bay —
WILL: You should use a pencil.
DANA: Would it be possible to have one ten o’clock meeting that doesn’t degenerate into dork recess? The noon meeting, the six o’clock, the eight o’clock, these are fine, and then the ten o’clock rolls around and you all start to unravel.
To be fair to them, it’s not exactly natural for human beings to be staying awake well past 10pm anyway.
DANA: I have to go snorkeling.
NATALIE: Dana —
DANA: No, I have to, Natalie.
NATALIE: I-I know, I’m saying maybe now’s not the time —
DANA: Gordon thinks I’m too invested in the show. I’m losing him, and I believe I can heal our relationship if I go snorkeling.
(sigh) Frankly, I prefer derailing a meeting to dork recess than to whatever the hell this overly-insecure act is.
KIM: The guys I’m with? It’s usually good enough just to wear the outfit.
Ayo?
ELLIOT: Gordon’s on your line.
…
DANA: He’s just calling to say hi. (picks up the phone) What’s happening? (listens) We were just talking about that, I’m gonna overcome my fear of fish. (listens) Really? (listens)
NATALIE: (to the room) Let’s meet back in twenty minutes.
DANA: (as everyone leaves) No, no, that’s… fine…
Well, that call went south quick…
RETURNING Verbal Tic: How ya doin’
Running count: 10
NATALIE: You mind if I grab a piece of paper?
CASEY: Sure.
(CASEY hands NATALIE a piece of paper; NATALIE crumples it into a ball and throws it at CASEY’s head)
CASEY: … ‘Kay.
NATALIE: How ya doin’?
Well, he’s been blissfully absent from the plot so far, that’s how he’s doin’!
NATALIE: Why aren’t you pursuing Dana the way I told you to?
CASEY: Hey, Dana made it very clear in no uncertain terms that she wanted me to stop pursuing her…
Look at that, a functioning adult! Why couldn’t Dan be in the room here to learn from the guy?
NATALIE: She was gonna get over her fear of fish.
CASEY: Fish is not what Dana’s afraid of.
NATALIE: What’s she afraid of?
CASEY: Holding out for what she deserves.
NATALIE: Exactly, exactly! I totally agree, and I don’t even know what that means.
CASEY: Do you think Dana’s happy going out with Gordon?
NATALIE: I do not.
CASEY: We’re in agreement.
NATALIE: I think Dana’d be happy going out with you.
CASEY: And there we do not agree.
Me neither! You gotta hand it to Casey, really — his words and actions this episode are more those of a good friend than as an attempted love interest. He’s on board with trying to get Dana to see she’s not happy with Gordon, but he’s not actively looking to serve as a replacement. If only he remains consistent on that…
NATATLIE: We’re best friends —
All evidence to the contrary.
NATALIE: — she tells me things.
CASEY: What has she told you?
NATALIE: Things.
Stunning specificity, Nat.
CASEY: She told you she’s rather be going out with me than with Gordon?
NATALIE: Not in those words.
CASEY: In what words?
NATALIE: Other words.
Natalie, you fucking serial liar, just fucking stop already!
ISAAC: (entering) Casey —
NATALIE: Isaac — don’t you think, don’t you know that Dana isn’t happy with Gordon, and that Gordon is about to break up with Dana, and Dana only thinks she cares?
ISAAC: (beat) You know what? I’m gonna step out now and it’ll be like I never came in.
Good on you, Isaac — Natalie was way out of line there.
NATALIE: Casey, no kidding around — the world keeps moving in one direction.
Technically that’s incorrect, Nat, astronomically speaking… okay, I’ll shut up.
NATALIE: You should go to her.
CASEY: (beat) Go to her?
NATALIE: You should go her.
CASEY: When?
NATALIE: Now.
CASEY: I should go to her now.
NATALIE: Yes.
CASEY: On a Thursday.
Not a Saturday?foreshadowing detected
CASEY: What should I do once I get to her?
NATALIE: Be a man.
Oh, please, Case, don’t take her advice — don’t “be a man”, just be a friend, would you please? That’s all Dana needs at the moment (and Natalie just seems incapable).
CASEY: Is everything alright with Gordon?
DANA: Yeah.
CASEY: ‘Cause I heard maybe he called off the snorkeling.
DANA: He did — we’re going skiing instead.
CASEY: Oh.
DANA: The same place he took me that first time — [Sugarbush.]
CASEY: [Sugarbush.]
Okay, I’ll admit it, it’s a nice touch he remembers — especially considering he wasn’t exactly in a stable state of mind at the time.
DANA: Seriously, the intro you wrote for the 40s is really funny. You are cracking me up today. (walks away)
CASEY: Excellent… (stands there awkwardly)
You did your job, Case, you acted like a friend — no need to be awkward about it now.
RETURNING Verbal Tic: How ya doin’
Running count: 11
DAN: How ya doin’?
REBECCA: Dan.
DAN: I knew I knew you.
REBECCA: Yes.
NEW Sorkin Name: Steve(n)
DAN: You’re Steve Cisco’s wife.
REBECCA: Ex-wife.
For the record: there is no sportscaster named Steve Cisco. There is, however, a baseball player named Steve Cisco, but he only played one season of baseball for the Atlanta Braves in 2000, which was after this episode aired. How much grief do you suppose he got from guilt by association?
RETURNING Verbal Tic: Let me tell you something
Running count: 3
DAN: Let me tell you something — first of all, I’m a sports anchor, not a sportscaster; second of all, you married a jerk. I know about Steve Cisco. Everybody knows about Steve Cisco. Sister, you married a loser — and the fact that you think that that man’s low-grade brand of manhood is any way indicative of my profession is beneath your obvious intelligence and class.
Holy shit, Dan, you’re really going for the kill, aren’t you?
DAN: Will you look at this? You’re working late, I have a show to do in ten minutes just twelve stories up. There’s no earthly reason why you shouldn’t be having dinner with me after show.
Never mind, you overheated — abort, Dan.
DAN: I’ve got to get back to my job, which, rest assured, I do considerably better than Steve Cisco. (enters elevator)
There you go, Dan, leave the situation now.
REBECCA: A neighborhood park all covered with cheese?
DAN: (runs out elevator) I knew it, you’ve been watching the show.
No.
No, not… no way.
Just… no.
I’m sorry, are we really to believe Rebecca has been playing hard-to-get this entire time? She has a really fucked up way of doing so, if that’s the case — an unequivocal no is not a way of leaving the door open for such a play. If that’s not the case, then good god, is it easy for men to take the wrong lesson from this — what Dan did is by no means entirely ethical. When a woman tells you no, it is not your job to dig into why they’re saying no and find a way to make that problem go away — it is your job to respect that woman’s wishes and stop. If by some Aristotelian confluence of events she changes her mind, then it’s on her to reapproach you at that point — until that time you respect her boundaries.
REBECCA: Danny, you said a park all covered with cheese!
DAN: I know. That’s the second time you called me Danny.
REBECCA: (beat) Do you like it?
DAN: Yeah.
Oh, good lord…
REBECCA: Listen, I have to work late. If you’re not doing anything, do you want to get some dinner after your show?
DAN: Tonight?
REBECCA: Yeah.
DAN: I got a date tonight. (starts walking away, then stops) But that was a joke! That was a little joke I wrapped up and gave to you free for nothing.
“A little joke”? That was bordering on the line, Dan…
REBECCA: I am serious, Danny, if you turn out to be a jackass, I am gonna — no kidding, as god as my witness — I am gonna do something bad to you with numbers.
Ayo, what? What exactly can you do to a man with numbers? Is it any worse than what Jeremy did to numbers nine episodes ago?
JEREMY: Casey?
CASEY: Yeah.
JEREMY: The feed from San Antonio?
CASEY: Yeah.
JEREMY: Don’t be freaked out if it’s in Spanish.
CASEY: … Okay.
Hey, no need to worry, he’s a man of many languages! He should be able to translate on the fly!
DANA: I don’t have Philly, and I don’t have Dan.
JEREMY: Dan, despite my best efforts, is getting his heart broken by Rebecca — who gave me quite a tongue-lashing, by the way.
DAVE: Live in thirty seconds.
NATALIE: Excuse me, she gave you what?
Get your mind out of the gutter, Nat.
RETURNING Dialogue Motif: Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah
Previous instance: A Few Good Men
DAN: (singing) Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, zip-a-dee-ay! My, oh my, what a wonderful day…
Thank you, Dan, for reminding our viewers that they are watching a channel run by Disney.
DAN: (singing) Plenty of sunshine, plenty of hay…
CASEY: Uh, it’s not “plenty of hay”, it’s “plenty of sunshine, headin’ my way”.
DAN: (beat) That makes more sense.
It does?
DAN: You know, sometimes it’s worth it, taking all the pies in the face. Sometimes you come through it feeling good.
Yeah, especially if you seem to lose your moral compass for an entire episode…
DAN: And how was your day?
CASEY: Sometimes you just stand there, hip deep in pie.
Nah, I still think you’re overinterpreting your situation, Case. You did exactly what you need to do today: you warned Dan about the errors of his ways (unsuccessfully, but at least you tried) and you made yourself a friend to Dana when you caught wind of her potentially being in need of one. That Natalie insists on your trying to make more of that than you should ought to be resolutely ignored — if anything, Nat is the one throwing the damn pies in your case. Start dodging them already.
(sigh) Okay, I made it through the episode. Let’s be clear for a moment: I almost certainly would not have as much against this episode as I do if Rebecca’s initial response to Dan last episode hadn’t been a straight “I’m not interested”. If she had instead gone something along the lines of “I don’t think that’s a good idea”, then I probably would have forgiven Dan his full tilt herein. Unfortunately, that’s not what happened, and we have ourselves a thoroughly lobotomized Dan Rydell for this episode. That said lobotomization gets paired with a continuation of Dana’s being openly insecure about her relationship with Gordon makes for an episode that I wish were skippable — but it isn’t, as we’ll see in a future entry.
If you’re not foaming at the mouth in anger at me at this point, then I’d suggest you subscribe to this blog so you can see when my sanity slippage eventually comes to a halt. I mentioned a few entries ago that I’ve so far been ahead of schedule on keeping up a backlog of entries — recently, my rate of producing entries for that backlog has slowed down quite a bit. There have been multiple reasons for that — this entry, for instance, is the first I’ve been able to complete since The Election™, which is impeccable timing — but frankly I think chief among those reasons is that I’m growing fatigued with this particular television show, for reasons I’m pretty sure I’ve made abundantly clear at this point. I have a feeling, though, that once I get through this season and start getting into the greener pastures of The West Wing, my motivation to write will rebound considerably. In either case, subscribing ensures you’re always on top of the latest entry, whenever it comes. Coming up next: time to burn this Mustang down.
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