Look, it's Dawn from the BBC Office. She's actually getting a bigger and bigger part on Studio 60, and she's charming. I hope she stays. See, I have to look at the good, because man, this was a bad episode. Let's hurt ourselves a little more by recounting why this episode was only slightly less painful than the poop you take after eating a casserole made entirely of bran, beans, and Mexican food.

-Harriet continues to be an uppity brat with a horrid sense of entitlement. Exactly why was she so mad at Matt? Because he threw away twenty thousand dollars on a foolish whim? Heavens, no. She was mad at him because it was more about competing with what's-his-name than it was about wooing her. Or something.

-Danny and Jordan get stuck on the roof. Really, Aaron Sorkin? You're really gonna pull out one of the worst romantic-comedy cliches ever? Here's a tip: admitting the cliche doesn't make it not a cliche. That's actually a fault in my own writing, but we're talking about you here, buddy.

-What's with all the endless recapping conversations about what's happened in past episode? Jack's endlessly complicated subplot was kind of interesting the first three times I heard him explain it.

-Oh look, it's the only potentially cute couple on the show, Lucy and Tom. Oh look, unnecessary complication with the whole forced-dinner-with-the-Asian-chick thing. Oh well, still cute. Oh, but wait -- wait -- no -- no -- NO -- NO -- give me a break. They actually just did the whole "lie to her because my friend tells me to, even though she'll obviously find out soon and get mad at me, even though there was no freakin' reason to lie to her in the first place." This is a much more reprehensible and even more tired cliche than the whole stuck-on-the-roof thing. It's just so stupid on so many levels.

For the first time I'm considering just giving up on this show.