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Summary: This has to be the coolest show ever!
Review: Filled with great performances (all over the place!), Sports Night was one of the best shows on television. And, I bought the collection one night and ended up watching two DVDs as soon as I got home -- this is a great show!All of the memorable moments are here -- like the time Isaac becomes a grandfather (I cry everytime!), when Jeremy goes hunting, Gordon cheats on Dana, Casey who secretly loves Dana -- the whole ball of wax -- and DAN! Oh, baby! The reason this show wasn't successful was because of it's bum time slot (Tuesdays at 8:30 CST just wasn't cutting it) and ABC wasn't intelligent enough to market it to the right audience (it's not necessarily just a sports show). I'm just excited now since I have the DVD set that I don't have to wake up at 4:30 in the morning to watch the reruns (though, I might still -- you never know).
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Summary: A wonderful present for fans...
Review: A fabulous, wonderful present for all fans of this magnificent series, to get all 45 episodes on DVD. ... Only quibble: The laugh track remains. It would have been six stars, if they could have dumped it or had the option to dump it, like with MASH.
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Summary: Sports Night changed my life?
Review: I've thought often about the reasons why this show meant so much to me and all I can do is talk about snatches of dialog and brief scenes from the show and how they've touched me. I'm a Manager of many, many people; Isaac Jaffee's philosophy of surrounding himself with smart people who disagree with you is something I've adopted as my personal creed. I show the videotape of this episode in Management Classes I teach to show new supervisors what type of Management style I want to happen in my department. I love the music of Brian Wilson. I think the word Genius is used too often in the world of entertainment but I do believe Brian is as close as you can get. The pure emotion The Beach Boy's are able to deliver in a song is almost unmatchable by any other artist. The episode that ends with Jeremy trying to deal with his Parent's divorce and Dan is going to go watch
baseball and be with Rebecca the first time, you hear the sounds of Sloop John B, I cry and get goosebumps each time I see the show. Speaking of crying and goosebumps, I knew that I was addicted to the show when I watched the end of "The Apology." The heart filled speech giving by Danny and then when Casey goes to talk to him, instead of comforting him or saying something that would seem hollow or cliched, he starts talking about the "coolness factor" of the Starland Vocal Band and you hear the sounds of
"Afternoon Delight." This moment shows perfectly the relationship between the two men. I love the spotlight and I love being in charge, but the episode "Six Gentleman" reminds me that there are many people working very hard to help my Department succeed and I need to make sure that I not only thank them but make sure they have their moment in the sun. So these are just a few reasons why I think that almost anyone would enjoy these DVD's. My only regret is that there are no extras on the discs but when the shows are this good, do we really need extra stuff. Good show Everyone!
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Summary: My Favorite Show
Review: I waited until I had the DVD collection to write this, because there's nothing I can say about this show that hasn't been repeated here 50 or more times. This is, without question, one of the true highlights of network television. The disc set is simple: 45 episodes spread across six discs, with the division between seasons one and two falling neatly at the end of the third disc. With so much programming packed onto the discs, there's really no room for anything else, so there are no special features. Thankfully, "Sports Night" requires no special features to be special. Tops on my "it would have been nice" list, though, is the removal of the laugh track. It didn't do anything for the show and, thankfully, it's reduced to almost non-existent by the end of the series. If only Buena Vista had gone back and excised it altogether before putting out the collection. It's fullscreen, as expected--not many shows were filmed widescreen at the time ("Babylon 5" being a notable exception), so that's only a complaint because I have a widescreen TV. I can't say enough good things about this show--this might well be the most positve, uplifting show ever produced...the thinking person's "Touched by an Angel." It's populated with good people who are struggling to become better people, with tight friendships of the variety most of us wish we had. As much as Isaac would like to claim otherwise, the line between job and family blurs into obscurity on this show, resulting in closeness, warmth, and inevitable infighting. I care about Dan, Casey, Dana, Isaac, Natalie, Jeremy and all the rest mostly because they care about each other. The only real complaint I have about this collection is it takes 18 hours to watch the whole thing, which is what I want to do every single time I pick up the box. I guess I'll have to settle for watching 3-4 episodes a night, taking a couple of weeks to get through what I once waited a couple of years to see. Thanks to everyone involved in producing this wonderful show and DVD package. This is truly a priceless piece of entertainment--at a retail cost of just over a dollar an episode, it's a bargain of epic proportions.
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Summary: A Homerun!
Review: Not only is this one of the best shows ever, as a television producer I can also say it's the most accurate show that depicts the television industry. The real star of "Sports Night" is the writing: I love the witty banter, the engaging storylines, and the subtlety of the humor. I'm a big fan of "The West Wing," but I always thought this was the superior show and I'm thrilled that it's being released on video.
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Summary: SPORTS NIGHT: A * * * * show given No Stars treatment
Review: "Sports Night", which ran on ABC from 1998-2000, was a brilliant 1/2 hour sitcom in the same vein as "M*A*S*H". Created by Aaron Sorkin (writer, "THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT" and "A FEW GOOD MEN"; creator, "The West Wing"), this Emmy-nominated show was a brilliant, underrated and overlooked gem that took a hilarious and sometimes serious look at the lives and loves of the people behind the scenes of cable's #3 rated sports show (ala' SPORTSCENTER on ESPN--often mentioned as competition). The fiction kid sister of fictional network CSC, the show is run by Managing Editor Isaac Jaffe (Robert Guillaume of "Soap" and "Benson" fame) and Dana Whitaker (Felicity Huffman, the former Mrs. Mamet seen in Mamet's earlier films "HOUSE OF GAMES" and "THINGS CHANGE" as well as his later masterstroke "THE SPANISH PRISONER", not to mention the brilliant 3 hour mosaic of misery, P.T. Anderson's "MAGNOLIA"). The show is anchored (pun intended) by the stars Casey McCall (Peter Krause of "Six Feet Under" fame) and Dan Rydell (Josh Charles of "DEAD POETS SOCIETY"). Then there's the "help", Natalie Hurley (Sabrina Lloyd of "Sliders") and Jeremy Goodwin (Joshua Malina of "THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT" and "BULWORTH", currently on Sorkin's "The West Wing" in a recurring guest role). This show is an exquisite morsel, a tasty pastry of a 1/2 hour and the final DVD treatment of both seasons of this shortlived masterpiece is a treat for both the longtime fans, the confused who came to it late, and those looking for a good time now. This is what the word "wonderful" means.
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Summary: One of the Best Shows I've ever watched
Review: I've watched a lot of TV in my life and this series rates as one of my all time favorites. Its one of the shows like "My So Called Life" or "Freaks and Geeks" that REALLY should still be on televison or at least had a much longer run (speaking of those two shows WHAT ABOUT THEIR DVD COLLECTIONS!!!!). It does in one 22 minute episode what some shows can't do in enitre multi-year runs. I've been wishing for this set once the trend of "televison collections" on DVD became a trend. I'd buy it at twice the price. I couldn't recommend it higher.
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Summary: The crossover is amazing!
Review: Aaron Sorkin's genius series, SportsNight, is the best TV I've ever seen. I was actually working for a professional sports team when this show aired and our staff gathered weekly to tune-in -- it's amazing how real it was! If you are a fan of West Wing, you'll recall that Felicity Huffman, William H. Macy, Timothy Davis-Reed and Josh Malina (all former SportsNighters) have guested. Janel Maloney (WW's Donna) played a costume mistress on SportsNight. West Wing follows SportsNight's same quick and witty pace -- a formula that unfortunately didn't have success in the ratings for the ABC show, but brought the West Wing huge success.
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Summary: I Can't Wait Either
Review: This is a wonderful show, and I was dismayed to hear/see that the show went off the air......... Love the re-runs on Comedy Central. I'm completely overjoyed that I ordered this Complete Series DVD Set, and cannot wait for it to arrive, so I can watch it anytime. Mr. Aaron Sorkin and all the rest of those who worked on the program should be highly commended. The language and character interactions are very well done........ Sleepless nights (from staying awake to watch the series while it was on TV) are now a thing of the past....An Enthusiastic Hooray...A Priceless TV gem........
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Summary: Best Show (no longer on) Television
Review: Fantastic show. Smart, funny, fast-paced writing, well-developed characters, and outstanding story lines. One of the few shows where I actually didn't mind a re-run because I could usually pick up on dialogue missed because I was laughing out loud- or just didn't catch or fully appreciate a subtle reference the first go-through. This was the first and only show I was sorry to see leave television- although freeing Peter Krause up for Six Feet Under, and the early growth of West Wing was a decent tradeoff. Happy that Comedy Central picked up the re-runs, but very disappointed in the addition of a laugh track, so I'm hoping for a "pure" version on DVD.
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