I never watched this show during the original run but I started a couple of weeks ago and now it's one of my all time favorites. It is incredibly addicting.

5/29/2013 3:45:10 PM

hahaha I just finished The West Wing on Monday! I loved it! the second to last season was kinda of meh but it was still exciting to watch-- you can definitely tell a difference when Aaron Sorkin left.

Now, I want more !

5/29/2013 4:08:34 PM

It's all good until Aaron Sorkin left after season 4. It goes downhill fast.

5/29/2013 4:17:18 PM

Yep, pretty much. Just put seasons 1-5 on repeat and pretend that you get busy and just can't manage to finish the series.

5/29/2013 4:43:37 PM

one of my favorite shows of all time. definitely watched it more times through than any other show.

5/29/2013 4:48:03 PM

My favorite show ever.

Loved seasons 1-4 (the Sorkin seasons). Don't really care for season 5. Season 6 redeems itself toward the end, and then I enjoyed season 7 again.

I'll never get tired of this show.

5/29/2013 7:26:40 PM

Season 2 is one of the best seasons of tv (except for the wire)

5/29/2013 7:28:50 PM

i hate-watched the last 3 seasons when they were still airing new. then a couple years later got the dvd's of the first four seasons and have watched those a couple times. in the middle of season 4 right now actually (recently moved and don't have cable).

5/29/2013 7:29:02 PM

<3 West Wing

I rewatch various episodes from seasons 1-4 on the regular

the other seasons I could take or leave, except for maybe Donna yelling at the guy in the chicken suit

and Alan Alda as Vinick

5/29/2013 8:40:08 PM

i added this on netflix. probably going to watch it this summer.

5/29/2013 9:14:46 PM

I watched a few episodes after Sorkin left then stopped watching completely.

Before that I would watch back to back to back episodes on the weekends.

5/30/2013 2:45:40 PM

I wish this was still on Bravo every night instead of the typical bullshit they show now.

5/30/2013 5:49:24 PM

My Sorkin progression went something like Sports Night -> Studio 60 -> The Newsroom -> The West Wing.

5/30/2013 6:12:58 PM

Just started season 5. John Goodman was a terrible choice.

[Edited on June 7, 2013 at 5:09 AM. Reason : -]

6/7/2013 5:06:15 AM

Honest question. Is this show watchable if you have even the slightest conservative bone in your body? I usually vote left but I can't stand MSNBC type shit.

6/7/2013 8:11:13 AM

Yes

6/7/2013 8:25:14 AM

I'm pretty conservative and I love the show.

It's actually got a big following here among the other volunteers. With seven seasons on the hard drive at the headquarters, it's a great way to kill time. And you need to kill a lot of time in Benin.

Finally getting my new laptop tomorrow and it will likely be the first thing I watch on it.

6/7/2013 1:45:31 PM

I have a lot of republican friends who enjoy it.

6/7/2013 2:58:06 PM

^^don't you have places Togo?

[Edited on June 7, 2013 at 2:58 PM. Reason : ]

6/7/2013 2:58:12 PM

The only thing more annoying than Togo puns are the Benin puns volunteers use in their blog titles. (Ibeninafrica, etc.)

6/8/2013 5:27:06 AM

ha... to be fair that's how i learned the two countries in 7th grade social studies... and i have remembered them ever since.

6/8/2013 9:23:52 AM

Half way done with season 5 and feel like giving up.

Is it worth continuing? Bring back Rob Lowe

6/11/2013 8:57:20 PM

he comes back for the funeral. [/spoiler alert]

6/11/2013 9:39:39 PM

^^ Yeah, keep going

Seasons 6 and 7 are better than 5

[Edited on June 11, 2013 at 10:15 PM. Reason : .]

6/11/2013 10:14:58 PM

Season 5, Episode 10, "The Stormy Present"

Connecticut stole NC's copy of the Bill of Rights, NC stole the Whalers. Lol, they've won me back.

6/12/2013 3:56:31 AM

Just finished season 6, the last several episodes were pretty great (essentially everything after Leo came back). Alan Alda's character would never win a republican primary, btw.

7/9/2013 2:29:07 PM

which is too bad because i'd probably vote for arnie haha

7/9/2013 3:12:27 PM

i'm on season 4

that terrorist white house lockdown episode toward the beginning of season 3 where each character had a monologue in the mess hall with the visiting school group was the worst thing i've ever seen. if i wanted to watch sorkin feverishly masturbate for 42 minutes i'm sure there are other ways.

love this show though


[Edited on July 9, 2013 at 3:18 PM. Reason : .]

7/9/2013 3:17:11 PM

that was the 9/11 episode wasn't it?

7/9/2013 3:37:50 PM

i don't know

i should also mention i was high when i watched it and sometimes when i'm high i perceive that literally everything is really stupid and lame.


[Edited on July 9, 2013 at 3:58 PM. Reason : .]

7/9/2013 3:58:23 PM

Yeah, that's the 9/11 episode. No one likes it.

Quote :

"if i wanted to watch sorkin feverishly masturbate for 42 minutes i'm sure there are other ways."

The Newsroom!!!

7/9/2013 4:06:04 PM

it was written and produced in a matter of days, i'm pretty sure. so i'll give them a mulligan on that one.

[Edited on July 9, 2013 at 6:45 PM. Reason : i guess that could apply to newsroom as well, but i'm referring to the 9/11 ep]

7/9/2013 6:45:21 PM

^ is that really how they produce episodes of newsroom?

as for west wing, i'm about a quarter of the way through season 7. mixed emotions on how they've torn apart the staff, but i've heard amazing things about the debate episode. i'll probably watch that tomorrow.

7/10/2013 5:14:10 AM

i was joking about newsroom because it's so terrible.

7/10/2013 10:02:25 PM

I think the basic plot of a Newsroom episode is outlined in days, but it takes months to build in the sanctimoniousness and misogyny.

7/10/2013 11:58:43 PM

although the HBO Newsroom fake twitter account is pretty great

https://twitter.com/HBONewsroom

7/11/2013 8:47:30 AM

Quote :

"he comes back for the funeral. [/spoiler alert]"

asshole

7/12/2013 2:28:05 AM

jokes

7/14/2013 3:21:19 PM

7/14/2013 6:24:02 PM

Somebody with premie bump The Newsroom thread, it's time for some hatewatching.

7/14/2013 8:22:36 PM

you can bump without premie

7/14/2013 8:51:49 PM

Fair enough, I swear you used to not be able to bump threads older than 90 days.

7/14/2013 8:53:59 PM

Just finished the series. I really enjoyed Series 7.

The election results were just so unrealistic though.

Oh, and Sam Seaborn was NOT at the funeral, so that wasn't a true spoiler.

[Edited on July 17, 2013 at 12:24 PM. Reason : -]

7/17/2013 12:22:45 PM

we are in america. it is called SEASON 7.

7/17/2013 6:27:53 PM

People tell me I look like that dude from the west wing. I tell them they look like that dude from Dallas

I'm Krallum and I approved this message.

7/17/2013 6:49:50 PM

Which West Wing characters would match up best to the 2016 crop of candidates?

I'll kick it off with the easiest one...Bernie Sanders = Stackhouse for sure.

10/14/2015 4:03:23 AM

Has anyone been listening to the West Wing Weekly podcast?

10/18/2016 6:49:20 PM

^It's been our go to on road trips, fun to relive the show and get insights from the cast

10/18/2016 11:18:10 PM

My google bar is now confused when I start typing in "the w..." TWW vs TWWW.

I enjoy it, especially the real life politicians, soldiers, lawyers, etc. I knew the show had major cred but to hear that so many real life government workers watched the show and enjoyed it that much is huge.

10/19/2016 6:09:20 PM

The debate episode in the final season was amazing. My favorite thing ever.

10/20/2016 11:25:15 PM