Like I need another obsession...

[major_clanger]

I appear to have become a West Wing addict. Are there support groups for this sort of thing?

MC

Comments

[the-gardener.livejournal.com]

I second yonmei. Indeed, I think you may be coming into The West Wing (assuming you're watching Channel 4's broadcast of the fourth series, as I am) at about the time I think it's starting to run out of oomph. It's not just that Rob Lowe is being written out, to cover for his departure for another series, but the storylines lack spark and the characters aren't as interesting.

[major-clanger.livejournal.com]

I've actually just started watching Season 1 on DVD, courtesy of Caro and groliffe. Five episodes in so far, and already hooked...

MC

[the-gardener.livejournal.com]

The first two series are very good; they're what hooked me -- even though Channel 4 got cold feet about the first, and held onto it for a year or so after they'd acquired it before finally transmitting it. (And then broadcast the series late at night, perhaps in an attempt to ensure no one watched it. If so, they failed; the second and third series ran in prime time.)

The third series is also pretty good. The fourth....well, there's less input from Sorkin, but aside from that Channel 4 seems to have sat it, like the first, for a year or so before finally broadcasting it. (In the kidult hour on a Friday evening, perhaps again to minimise its audience.) You have to wonder why they bothered to acquire it in the first place.