what.the.fuck.Aaron?????????
do you honestly expect ANYONE that isn't self-indulgent, self-absorbed, head-up-ass Leftist!Hollywood to buy that there's an actual parallel between The Blacklist and today? are you fucking high?
do you SEE anyone not hiring Susan Sarandon? do you SEE anyone screaming in the papers about how Saturday Night Live can't get Bush!Bashing skits on the air? or anyone pulling Jon Stewart off the air? or any of those writers getting pulled in front of House Committees on Un-American activities? hell, do you SEE a committee on Un-American activities, for fuck's sake?
was it a groovy plotline? yup. was it well executed? absolutely. was Eli Wallach brilliant like fucking whoa? hell yes. was it zomg so very kewl to treat that man like the Elder Statesman that he was? hell yes, again.
do you get to legitmately throw away a line like the network has problems with political skits??? jeezuz gawd, no, you hypocritical bastards.
you want to write something daring, Aaron? write a skit bashing on the Democrats, or the UN, or Europe, or Islamofascists or something, because any brain dead monkey with a Commodore 64 keyboard can bash on Bush. there's nothing fucking hard, or daring, or edgy, or brilliant about it. why? because EVERYONE ALREADY DOES IT, JACKASS.
:::ahem:::
that said, i loved the subplots with Tom and his parents, and the black comedy versus white comedy. and drunk!Jordan was priceless, and the look on Matt's face when Eli was telling the story about the guy writing to impress the girl? guh.
i heart Matt/Harry. i rilly, rilly do.
i'm not sure about the Jack bit at the end though. i think Sorkin's still too over the top with The Message-ness, and that he, just like the Hollywood he's railing against, is stereotyping too much. Jack as MajorNetworkTool is too bull in a china shop, and Aaron can do better, do more subtle, make his point without making me want to