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I watched this show on DVD for the first time a few years ago and it was an all-around wonderful experience. Sometimes, especially in seasons 2-4, I would watch up to eight episodes in a single sitting. Just like Sports Night, it made the workplace it depicted look like, despite the high tensions and clashing egos, a place absolutely bursting with warm and brilliant people doing their best in a way that made you want to work there too. The only downsides of the Sorkin years were Mandy and the embarrassingly blatant "take THAT, George W Bush!" character of Robert Ritchie.reality_groove posted:Who is everyone's favourite bit character? I made a rough list of the main ones. I always really, really liked Joey Lucas. Shame that she only appeared a couple times a season or so.
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Anyone who loves this show but has NOT seen the 1995 Sorkin-scripted movie The American President should definitely check it out. It has an incredibly similar flavor to it, and even a lot of the same actors (including Martin Sheen in what's basically the role of Leo).
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Jul 7, 2011 23:57
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This thread seems as good a place as any to mention that there's a new Aaron Sorkin show coming up on HBO next spring, More As This Story Develops: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1870479/ Technically at this point it's still just a pilot, but Sorkin just won an Oscar for best screenplay so I'm guessing there's a 99.99% chance it goes to series. The premise sounds a lot more like Sports Night than The West Wing, with its behind-the-scenes-of-a-news-show premise (and a relationship between Emily Mortimer and Alison Pill's characters that sounds identical to Dana and Natalie), but it's still definitely my most anticipated new show of 2012, even after the Studio 60 debacle.
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Jul 10, 2011 18:00
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I'm not sure that I have a specific favorite episode, but the 5-episode stretch from 17 People (where they tell Toby about Bartlet's MS) to Two Cathedrals has gotta be one of my favorite TV story arcs of all time.
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Jul 16, 2011 21:45
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TheBigBad posted:Just started Sports Night for the first time. Wow... that pilot is seriously confused. Is it a sit-com? Is it a precursor to West Wing? There's definitely some beautiful set ups and pay offs by Mr. Sorkin. I wonder if I can make it through the next 44 episodes. It's easiest if you just think of it as a drama that happens to be 22 minutes, and ignore the laugh track until it goes away (which it eventually does).
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Jul 26, 2011 09:33
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Rums posted:17 People stands as one of my favorite episodes of this series, but I have a pressing question. Since 17 People contains tons of spoilers for season 1 through the first episode of season 2, it doesn't make for a very good intro to the show for someone new. I want to get my friend to start watching what is my absolute favorite TV show, but I can't decide on an episode to direct him to to start off. Basically don't want anything that will spoil the revelation that Bartlet has MS so if anyone has a good recommendation that doesn't bring up that plot point, let me know. I also don't care which season it's from, as long as it stands as a good intro to the series. What's wrong with the first episode?
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