THE WEST WING

[Lillybee]

The West Wing, one of my favorite TV series of all time, is now available on Netflix.

[Irishy]

My favourite too! I miss it like I missed Sam seaborne after season 3. Like a pain in my heart!

[Minerva]

I love the West Wing. Alas, I do not have Netflix, so this doesn't help me.

[Maggie Mae]

It's also streaming for free if you have Amazon Prime.

I love this show, at least until Aaron Sorkin left.

[terranova]

Ach, the first three seasons were some of the best tv ever. I miss the snappy writing. :(

[Irishy]

Agree re the first 3 seasons. But I also loved season 7. Loved the election and the drama. I was so sucked in to American politics and elections after that.

[DrPusey]

We've been watching this on Netflix too. It's like eating chips; we can't stop with just one episode.

My primary thought after watching The West Wing is always that I want Jed Bartlet to be my president in real life.

[Lillybee]

We've been watching this on Netflix too. It's like eating chips; we can't stop with just one episode.

My primary thought after watching The West Wing is always that I want Jed Bartlet to be my president in real life.

I so agree, especially when this show was running during the Bush years.

[SilverBeach]

Loved West Wing, watched it to the end. The Newsroom has a similar feel.

[2 much chickenetti]

This show made me want to go into politics, so I majored in Political Science in college and spent 14 months as a staffer on a Presidential campaign. It wasn't as glamorous as I thought it would be (and I gained 30 pounds). That being said, I'll do it again someday!

[galaxygirl]

We own the whole series on DVD, I re-watch it quite a bit. One of the best shows I've ever seen, 'Two Cathedrals' is one of the best episodes of any show ever.

[Lillybee]

I saw that epi last night and cried like a baby.

[Irishy]

Ah yes, poor old mrs Landingham. She was fabulous.

[terranova]

One of my favourite scenes is CJ with the Nancy McNally and CJ is going on about how they treat women in "Kumar". It gives me shivers every time.

[Lillybee]

I agree with that. That episode aired a few months after George W. Bush gave 8 million dollars to the Taliban in Afganistan. I remember being so angry at this because of the treatment of women by the Taliban that I even wrote to my senator. Of course, nothing happened.

[Austin]

I LOVE The West Wing. Sorkin's new creation, The Newsroom, on HBO reminds me a lot of TWW and is so good (despite being panned a bit by "critics").

[SilverBeach]

I LOVE The West Wing. Sorkin's new creation, The Newsroom, on HBO reminds me a lot of TWW and is so good (despite being panned a bit by "critics").

I'm looking forward to the next season of The Newsroom, hope it comes back soon. Critics be damned, my only mild complaint is that too much time was spent on silly love triangles, but the show may have been too heavy without those diversions. Definitely a thinking person's show, just like the West Wing was.

[urban teacher]

"Let Barlett be Barlett" Favorite quote of all time.

Agree about NEwsroom, loved the writing.

[DrPusey]

"Let Barlett be Barlett" Favorite quote of all time.

Agree about NEwsroom, loved the writing.

I think that might be my second favorite quote, only after "It's definitely not Uncle Fluffy!" (after Bartlet comes baited for bear in the debate against Richey)

[cindyluvs24]

I loved his line to James Brolin (Richey?) "And for the record - boy crime, i just don't know- is when I decided to kick your ass." And the episode where Josh is evaluated by the PTSD specialist.

[OddlyAmused]

I love Toby's quote from the re-election episode: "Do you want to tempt the wrath of the whatever from high atop the thing?" So fitting for so many situations!

[DrPusey]

Gads, we're up to "The Birnam Wood" in our rewatch. I've had to absent myself from the room; I just can't bear to watch that episode.

[Irishy]

Gads, we're up to "The Birnam Wood" in our rewatch. I've had to absent myself from the room; I just can't bear to watch that episode.

Refresh my memory..

[DrPusey]

Tagged for spoilers in case anyone doesn't want to know about the overall course of "The West Wing," if you haven't gotten around to seeing this excellent series yet.

"The Birnam Wood" is the episode in which Bartlet and Leo have a massive fight about the Middle East. Bartlet fires Leo. Leo starts wandering aimlessly through the woods at Camp David and then has a massive heart attack. And no one finds him for several hours!

The scene in which Leo is stumbling through the trees always gets me. It's not just that he has a heart attack in an isolated place, but that you've seen this extremely close relationship between him and Bartlet just get utterly destroyed over a political issue. And Leo's just blindsided by it, and you can read the crumbling of his world in John Spencer's [the actor's] face.

[OddlyAmused]

The West Wing also has the honor of having my favorite ever Christmas episode, "In Excelsis Deo". Gets me every time.

Who are everyone's favorite characters? I'm a fan of C.J. (duh), Josh, Toby, and Leo in particular, though there really aren't many that I dislike (coughMANDYcough).