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Summary: It's Not about sports... Really
Review: I am officially the 27th person to give this DVD set five stars before it's even released. That should tell you something! Go, click on buy! Now!Written and created by Aaron Sorkin (West Wing, The American President, A Few Good Men) directed primarly by Tommas Schlammee(Larry Sanders Show, West Wing) and starring Peter Krause(Six Feet Under), Josh Charles (Dead Poet's Society) Robert Guillamme(Soap) and stage actress Felicity Huffman, Sports Night is that great blend of comedy and drama only seen this well done before in M*A*S*H. While taking on the human condition, it always manages to make you chuckle, and it's not about sports! Really, it's not!
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Summary: The Best Of The Best TV Shows
Review: When Sports Night was first being aired on ABC, I never watched it. In fact, I never even heard of it. I sort of remember seeing commercials for it - like the turkey falling on the anchor desk, Dana running into someone and video tapes falling on the floor, but I just never thought about watching it. At the time I was trying to graduate highschool and was listening to U2. Even when it went off the air, and Comedy Central picked it up, I --still- never thought about watching it. It wasn't until last November when I moved into an apartmentm, and I had a night shift that I would watch tv at midnight. I always watched Comedy Central and while I was online Sports Night came on and I figured what the ... , I'll watch it. The fist episode I saw was the penultimate show to the end of sports night. Immediately I got hooked, and I watched the series finale...or what is the series finale since the show is done. Hoping and thinking the show was still on ABC or whatever channel had new episodes, I went online and found sadly, that it wasn't. When Comedy Central started the series over I recorded them from the pilot on. Unfortunately I missed an episode in the first season and after the second episode I wasn't watching it cause I lost my cable. So I have YET to see the second season, save the first 2 and last 2 of the season. And now I can't wait until it is released. I always seem to get into things when they are over or getting over (Sports Night...introduced to U2 in 1997). It's a sad thing that I had wished I watched the show in it's original run and that it was still on the air. Yes yes....ratings are important....but screw ratings...the fact is everyone who has ever seen this show has loved it! There were just people like me who never watched it when it was on because it never crossed their mind! I will say I am VERY happy it is being released on DVD. I receieved an email that they are only making 75,000 copies of it. So if we can get them all sold in the first week MAYBE they'll do a special edition.
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Summary: A perfect television series
Review: Sports night is my favorite 'sitcom' ever!
The amazing part of this series is it crept up on me and I became addicted to the funny yet intelligent script writing by Aaron Sorkin. Once you become addicted you start getting a feel for the characters and from the beginning to the end you fall in love with the show known as 'Sport's Night'.
A must buy for anyone. West Wing fans should get this to see Aaron Sorkin's first masterpiece.
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Summary: One of the best!
Review: Sports Night was one of the best shows on TV. The verbal jousting was amazing. It's an intellectual comedy with a quick dialogue. If you like Aaron Sorkin's writing, you'll love Sports Night!
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Summary: Perfect Score And Its Not Even Out Yet
Review: Let me be the 5th person to give this still-unreleased DVD a 5-out-of-5. If you have ever seen this show on Sports Night, you will understand why this is possible. This show is one of only a couple television series that, in my opinion, NEVER had an episode that was lacking. The writing and acting were excellent. If only we had more then 2 seasons. A real shame.
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Summary: Pearls of wisdom
Review: I've been a huge fan of Aaron Sorkin from The West Wing. My husband recently introduced me to "Sports Night" on Comedy Central. I was hesitant first because I was not at all a sports fan. As a new manager, I gained incredible insights into successful people management from watching Sports Night. Here's a shining example of pearls of wisdom throughout the show: If you're dumb, surround yourself with smart people; and if you are smart, surround yourself with smart people who disagree with you.
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Summary: A comedy with heart
Review: I missed this show when it was first on, luckily I caught it on Comedy Central. It's such an incredible show. The characters are unique, the writing is smart, the stories are good. No dumb sitcom formula here.
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Summary: Simply the Best
Review: Sorkin's Sports Night is simply the best tv show that's ever been put together. The amazing dialogue that we are foruntate to get in West Wing's drama is used here to amazing comic and dramatic effect. While it's set in a "sports center"-type environ, this show is accessible to everyone I've ever introduced it to, including those who dislike sports. Funny, touching, and well-crafted, this show had it all. My eternal thanks to the writer, the producers and the amazing actors who brought it to us.
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Summary: Television's best.
Review: This show said more about the human condition -- and said it with more compassion, verve and style -- than any television show before or since. Aaron Sorkin's depiction of these facile, funny, earnest people sent tingles and gasps, giggles and tears through my body every Wednesday night. Never a sports fan until this show, I found myself feeling more alive when exposed to these characters, these people of good conscience doing their best to create something of value. There was none of the formulaic cynicism that mass media generally affords us. In its place was a genuine revelling in the human condition, faith in the basic goodness of we wonderfully flawed mortals, and more wit than television has ever seen. I am so grateful it was on the air.
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Summary: A fun, witty, intelligent sitcom! (RATING/CONTENT REVIEW)
Review: Sports Night, as most other reviewers here have already said, is a great sitcom written by Aaron Sorkin, who also wrote the movies "The American President" and "A Few Good Men", as well as the current tv hit "The West Wing". This show is quite a bit more light-hearted than West Wing, and doesn't delve into deep political topics, but it does occasionally touch on a subject that will make you think, and quite possibly inspire you. It earned several Emmy nominations, and was declared by TV Guide as "Rookie of the Year" and "Best Show You're Not Watching". YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE A SPORTS FAN TO LOVE THIS SHOW! I have friends who don't care for sports at all, but would absolutely never miss an episode (in fact, it was one of these friends who told me this DVD set was going to be released). Sorkin masterfully integrates sports as a background, and weaves it into an occasional amusing subplot; but this show is about the relationships and interactions among the characters, not about the sports they cover. Sports Night is an intelligent comedy that rarely uses "slapstick" antics for a laugh, but relies instead on clever, witty, rapid-fire dialogue. It's 45 episodes of great television. RATING/CONTENT: I don't know what the TV people gave the show for rating/content, but here's my assessment:
--Violence: none, except when you get laughing so hard your sides hurt. TV-G
--Language: I can't specifically remember any swearing; if there is, it's certainly mild compared to many tv shows. TV-PG
--Sex: referenced in dialogue only, no graphic scenes at all; this show is about relationships, not sex, though some sexual references are made. Probably TV-PG, at worst TV-14
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