The West Wing season finale was last night. In one word: wow. In many words: this is Drama with a capital “D.” Really, the writing and the acting are always top-notch. There were so many “Oh… my… god” moments where, mouth agape, I was completely stunned. With the Vice President having already resigned, ailing President Bartlett invokes the 25th Amendment and hands power over to the prickly Speaker of the House; the President’s daughter is kidnapped the night of her college graduation and held as a political pawn; watch-listed terrorists are missing… and we have to wait a whole summer to see how it all turns out!
P.S. If you’re a real Wing nut, check out the “West Wing Watch” at GovExec.com, where the Gaffe Squad slices and dices the technical details of each episode.
In Will & Grace news, Sean Hayes was on with Letterman last night. What a cutie. The hour-long W&G season finale is tonight. I’ve set my TiVo to stun. (By the way, I’ve had my TiVo for about three weeks now. I should write a little review. Maybe this weekend.) Lastly, the NBC Store is now taking pre-orders for the first-season DVD. I don’t know, $44.95 is pretty steep. The price’ll come down as it spreads to other retail outlets, but still, it better have some really good extras.
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I was up until 1 am last night waiting for my ex on the west coast to call following West Wing–and had to wait a whole day until he watched Judging Amy. As much as I want a TiVo, it is really destroying the mass experience of TV. I can’t talk about what happens on any given episode because people haven’t watched it yet! It’s driving me nuts. Frankly, it makes me feel even lonelier than usual because I can’t even share comments about a TV show with people.
Nevertheless, I really want a TiVo.
I’m pretty creeped out by the West Wing finale. I have a feeling it was in some ways a parting shot by departing Aaron Sorkin, who rumor has it was pushed out by NBC and Warner not because of his late scripts, but because his vision of the White House was too liberal. Well, he’s left them with what they wanted. How the new writers will deal with it has me worried–I have been turning to the West Wing as a means of escape from the real thing, which seems so much more fictitious…
We’ve waited long enough for that DVD set, they BETTER make it worth the wait…
I envy your Tivo-ness. We just got satellite and I got to Dad too late to tell him to order the box that has a Tivo built in. I’ll probably get one when I get off to college, though.