May 29, 2003
WAITING FOR HUFFMAN
I really don't enjoy Aaron Sorkin's The West Wing, but I
did enjoy one of his previous and unfortunately more short-lived
efforts called Sports Night. It had that same fast-talking-
dames pace to it, but with humor instead of The West Wing's
nauseating earnestness. Also, it seemed like the female characters in
Sports Night were the ones that had their shit together, while
the men were a little out of it. This seems to be the opposite
character template of The West Wing.
I bring this up because one of the former stars of SN,
Felicity Huffman, is appearing in a new cable drama called Out of
Order, debuting this Sunday on Showtime and it occurred to me that
the alumni of SN are doing quite well for themselves. Peter
Krause, who played a sports anchor, now appears as the character Nate
in HBO's Six Feet Under. Sabrina Lloyd, who played Huffman's
character's assistant, now plays the main character's love interest on
NBC's series Ed. Joshua Malina, well, he pretty much played the
same worried writer character that he currently plays on The West
Wing. It seems only former co-anchor Josh Charles and stroke
victim Robert Guillaume are out of the loop.
I'm going to be watching the new Showtime series Out of
Order because I think Felicity Huffman is great. Also, it's going
to be starring Kim Dickens, who played the paramedic in the thoroughly
underappreciated Zero
Effect with Ben Stiller and Bill Pullman. Kim Dickens has big
things ahead of her.
Posted by Lexiphane at May 29, 2003 4:05 PM
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