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Old 09-23-12, 04:36 PM
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The West Wing -- worth watching now?

This is available for streaming on Amazon instant video and wondered if it was worth watching. I don't see it come up a lot in peoples' best of lists. I also think that a lot of the issues and situations will be seen as outdated or irrelevant. Much like how The Newsroom will be seen as outdated a few years from now. What do you think? Still worth watching?
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Re: The West Wing -- worth watching now?

Very much still worth watching. An excellent show from beginning to end. A lot of people think the quality dipped when Sorkin left, but I think it stayed great all the way through. Even if all the subjects aren't entirely topical (and most of them still are), you get a stellar cast doing some of their best work, and the amount of excellent dialogue, speeches, and memorable moments are too many to count.
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Re: The West Wing -- worth watching now?

Watch at least the first 3 seasons and the last one. The rest are okay.
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Re: The West Wing -- worth watching now?

I think it's definitely worth watching. I went through it again just a year or so ago and found it amazingly relevant. And I liked even the post-Sorkin years.
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Worth watching. The first three seasons are stellar and it's never truly bad and is always watchable after those seasons.
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Eminently rewatchable show. One of my favorite dramas of all time.
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season5 is only average but the rest are really good
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Re: The West Wing -- worth watching now?

I loved the first 3 seasons but found the dialogue in the post-Sorkin years to be awful in comparison to the Sorkin years. Perhaps not in comparison to normal shows, but the words that the characters were saying were mind boggling and I just couldn't keep watching.
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Absolutely worth watching. The first 2 seasons are the best seasons of TV I've ever seen (followed closely by The Shield & The Wire).
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Re: The West Wing -- worth watching now?

Okay, I'm sold. I'll check it out. Appreciate the comments.
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Re: The West Wing -- worth watching now?

Great writing, great acting...you should enjoy it.

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