Sepinwall is reviewing Sports Night and The Wire season 2 this summer.
I love it when people revisit great things from the past. I was never a massive Sports Night fan, but watching it while reading reviews and blog comments almost feels like revisiting it with a new group of people.
Also, Myles McNutt (another great TV writer) is watching and reviewing Deadwood, a show I still have not watched but would love to.
David Milch, interviewed by Salon.
On the lawlessness of Deadwood:
Oliver Wendell Holmes, in a study of the common law, said that the law develops out of society’s need to minimize the collateral consequences of the taking of revenge. What that means is, if I kill your horse, and you come and kill my horse and my family and burn down my house, the disruption to society of the collateral effects of the taking of revenge, which is justified, is such that society is gonna be disrupted. So what law does is say, “If you kill a horse, you will be subject to this much punishment.” To the extent that that stabilizes the process of taking of revenge, that’s how laws get developed.
