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Dammit, Clay - you made me watch it again.
It's just so good. And it's funny to listen to Sam knowing what we know about Rob Lowe and how he felt about how the character was treated.
"I wanna bring it up again"
"Why?"
"Because I got shouted down the first three times and I work here just like you do. Can I help you?"
That's Rob Lowe bitching about his character largely being an afterthought THROUGH his character. You think he struggled at all with that line reading? I do not.
Another thing I find fascinating about the show is how well they manage to kinda segment the main characters. For instance, in that clip above, we don't have the 'heroes' all standing together as you would in a less artfully done show. You have Toby and Leo by one set of monitors. You have Donna and Margaret in the gallery. You have CJ, Sam and Josh in their own corner. You have Charlie being the body man.
And you have a director willing to do that and actually get those individual shots instead of do it the lazy way. And why would he do that? Because it's infinitely more 'human'. That's how workplaces work. And too many hackney dramas just don't do it like that.
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