Sports Night

1998

Seasons & Episodes

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EP18 Draft Day: Part II - The Fall of Ryan O'Brian Mar 21, 2000

8.3| 0h30m| en
Synopsis

The offbeat cast and crew of a sports news show deal with professional, personal, and ethical challenges while functioning in a pressure-cooker work environment.

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ThiefHott Too much of everything
Redwarmin This movie is the proof that the world is becoming a sick and dumb place
Lucybespro It is a performances centric movie
Lucia Ayala It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.
bigdog-65546 I, unfortunately, missed the boat on this series during its original 1998-2000 run. It wasn't until a friend of mine lent me his DVD collection that I was introduced to Sports Night, and the gang.Had I known exactly what I was doing at the time, I could have come up with the term "Binge Watching" before binge watching was a thing. It took me only a few days to go through all 45 episodes, and there were many more re-watchings after that. The dialogue is fluid, the acting is incredible, and the characters are brought to life in a way that you actually feel like you are part of the CSC family. Who's heart didn't break along with Dan's when Rebecca went back to her husband? Or felt a twinge when the Casey-Dana saga reached its inevitable conclusion. I get the feeling that initially, the Jeremy and Natalie characters were only meant for the background, along with Will, Chris, Dave, Elliot, and Kim. However, the performances by Josh Molina and Sabrina Lloyd left the writers with no choice but to include them in plot lines and story arcs which spanned the duration of the show. Incidentally, is there anyone out there who would not want to work for someone like Issac Jaffe?The fact that this show was cancelled after just 45 episodes is a crime against humanity. One of the finest written, acted, and produced shows ever and was generally misunderstood by television execs who would rather shove garbage like "Two Broke Girls" and "Anger Management" down our throats. The line, "anyone who can't make money off of Sports Night, should get out of the money making business" still rings true to this day,
emptystomach24 I can't believe how underwhelmed I am with it. For the longest time, all I heard was how great this show was and how it was one of the best written shows of all time. Give me a break.Basically every single character is incredibly annoying & at many times completely insufferable. For the most part I find Dan alright, but besides him, Isaac & Rebecca are the only two characters I don't want to slap every other time they come on screen.I have never been or heard abut a work environment that was so into each other's personal lives. Every one is so involved with everyone else's sh!t and they are all so open about it. It's extremely unprofessional and I've never experienced intrusiveness of that manner at any job or social/work environment I've ever been apart of, and I was in a fraternity.Another thing that bothers me is how they are so mean to Sally. Because she is not apart of the super best friends? Oh, she is gunning to be Dana's replacement. What a b!tch!! You know, because we want Natalie to be the next in line cause she's a good buddy so let's be super rude to this other worker who we aren't great friends with. It doesn't make sense & it makes me hate the characters even more.99.9% of the show takes place in that office/studio. Not showing your characters in any other setting besides the workplace make it limiting. I feel like I'm just watching the same episode over again half the time. And don't say stuff like 'Lost' only took place in one setting. It was a large island outside. Not a confined floor in a building.And one example of something that really bothered me was when Casey went on the View and the clothing assistant approached him afterward and basically called him out for not mentioning the woman who picks out his outfits when Star Jones complimented him on this suit. And then he just took it. What kind of assistant would have the balls to say something like that to the on air talent? Do your job & shut up. Just another dumb thing that was put in to, I don't know, add drama to the show? It would most likely not happen in real life, and if it did they would fired for talking to a superior like that.
Tash Jones It's a Sorkin show. It's witty. It's comical. It's fast-paced. It has an emphasis on elements other than the sexual relations of the characters, whilst maintaining a subtle longing from the viewer of those romantic desires. There are some love stories (Dana & Casey, Jeremy & Natalie, and Dan &….well, Dan and his adoring ego probably) but the premise of the show manages to place them lower down in importance than the actual running of the show (there's a joke here, I'm pretty proud of it). Peter Krause (Casey) shines in his role. Josh Charles (Dan) is perfect for his. I personally think that Felicity Huffman (Dana) is the standout actress of the show, this paralleled with the dialogue stand this show miles above most of the sitcoms I have watched. Sorkin creates a fictional Sports News show, and somehow gets everything right. I'm under the impression that Sorkin can do no wrong. It's like the Newsroom, but funnier!
b-hath I has been wanting to watch this series for quite a while. I finally got the discs through online rental and I swear they are like crack. Run time without commercials is like 22 minutes so you keep on saying "just one more episode". Then you're done with the disc. One of the best written television shows I've ever seen. Sabrina Lloyd is ridiculously hot! I had never thought much of Josh Charles until I saw the last couple of discs of the second season. He has some very nice moments during that season. Everyone else is as brilliant as I thought they would be. I am now furiously wanting to get into The West Wing. I really enjoyed Sorkin's work on The American President. It is one of my favorite movies. Possible because I have a crush on Annette Benning. I really enjoyed A Few Good Men also. I guess I'm a Sorkinaholic.