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I made a mistake last night.

It all started at a friend’s house.  I weekly spend my Monday night’s at this friend’s with the guys watching our favorite shows (depending on the season).  Usually it’s the collection of Monday night shows with everything from Heroes to Chuck to 24.  Right now of course, all those shows are on hiatus, but luckily we have been saved by Battlestar Galactica, a show which has yet to disappoint this season.  If you haven’t watched Battlestar, I really can’t talk about it, because I’d be ruining 3 seasons of some pretty great writing (on the whole).  However, this post isn’t about Battlestar Galactica, it’s about a show that’s no longer on the airs.

Because you see, I got home last night at around 11pm with nothing to do and two glasses of Mountain Dew in my system.  Sleep was a distant drean.  So I checked my email, browsed my video game news at 1up, and then pulled up Hulu.  Hulu has been a fun past time for me lately, allowing me to rewatch some of my favorite shows (Battlestar Galactica for example), rewatch some older shows (The Pretender for example), and suddenly stumble upon shows I’ve never seen before.  Last night, that show was Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip.

I’ll be honest when I say I didn’t really have much interest in the show when it was on besides following the news that it was dying a slow and painful death.  I had too many other shows to watch at the time, and when I had time I didn’t want to dive into a show in the middle of the season.  Then last night, wide awake from too much caffeine, I see that I can watch the entire series (22 episodes) on Hulu.  I thought about stepping out to the living room for a Super Smash Bros. Brawl session, but something made me want to hit play.  So I said, “I’ll give it a shot”, pulled up the pilot and hit play.

Let me say this: the jury is still out on this show.  I guess technically it was sentenced, but my personal jury is still out.  It’s interesting so far, but I can tell you two things about last night’s viewing session to wrap up my story.  First, the starting 10 minutes of the pilot of Studio 60 were amazingly entertaining and captivating television.  Second, before I went to bed I watched a second episode, and right now, I’m paused on episode 4 to finish this point.  Like I said, the jury is definitely still out.