It's not uncommon these days to see (supposedly) in-the-know political types poke fun at Aaron Sorkin's The West Wing, which ran from 1999 to 2006 and depicted a dramatized version of the United States' executive branch coming off our 1990s end-of-history high.
Aaron Sorkin’s The West Wing, which ran from 1999 to 2006, depicted a dramatized version of the United States’ executive branch coming off our 1990s end-of-history high. Now, it feels like a quaint relic of a bygone era.
Folks have poked fun at the idealism of the scripts, the simplicity of the machinations onscreen and the often straightforward goodness of most characters. It’s true that the series feels dated, especially considering that it was airing at the same time as George W. Bush was lying the nation into a disastrous war in the Middle East.
But what I think makes it hardest to watch isn’t today’s foreboding sense of doom, but rather the sense that Sorkin’s dramatic flair makes the West Wing and the executive branch look like the precise kind of place we wish it could be — a group of men and women working together to advance positive causes for a responsive electorate that at least pretends to care, one way or another.
This Warner Bros. Home Entertainment complete-series set includes all seven seasons of the show in two nice blue cases. The special features echo the older sets, with documentaries, commentaries and deleted scenes.
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