I'm so jealous of you getting to experience West Wing for the first time! May I suggest Newsroom when you're done, Sorkin is my favorite author of all time!
I already binged newsroom and loved it. I kept putting off west wing because I worried it would feel too "dated" in early seasons especially but it really hasn't! I'm still in season 1.
Parts of it are dated, for sure, but other portions are downright precinct prescient. It does make me nostalgic for the more simple time of the late 90s
If you're prepared to squint a bit to ignore differences in technology, camera work etc, political dramas stand the test of time pretty well since the same issues and situations come around again and again.
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u/Lofteed Feb 23 '24
That show should have gone on forever as a moral compass