January 23rd, 2006

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The West Wing Gets Cancelled

Via Paul Wells, The West Wing will end its seven year run this May:

Touching on issues such as anti-terror legislation and presidential scandal, its view of White House life earned the series an unprecedented 24 Emmy awards and two Golden Globes. “It didn’t insult you and it was supremely clever at it,” said freelance TV critic William Gallagher.

This is a bummer, as it’s the only show I loyally watch, and one of the smartest shows on television. It doesn’t come as a surprise, given that the President (Martin Sheen) is reaching the end of his second term, and the show lost a prominent (and excellent) actor when John Spencer died in December.

In truth, though, how many crises in the White House can you really have?

Comments: 4 Responses so far

Jeff
January 23rd, 2006
11:50 am

I am also sorry to see it go. Overall I have been losing interest in each and every episode for the past few months.

The exception to this was last night with the scathing contrast between Bartlet’s handling a major disaster, and the real world Bush\Catrina.

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Miles
January 23rd, 2006
12:05 pm

Likwise, I’m also sad to see the show go. With Spencer sadly gone and the original producers gone too, I can’t help but wonder how the show could continue.

Too bad we don’t have a real Bartlet in the White House.

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Cheryl
January 23rd, 2006
4:32 pm

Well, heck. That really bums me out. I was looking forward to Vinick in the West Wing, assuming the American voters would put a Democrat in office in a couple of years. West Wing could easily have extended its role as the “alternate political reality.”

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JohnB
January 26th, 2006
6:39 pm

I won’t be sorry to see it go. There were two — maybe three — years in the middle where it got “soap-opera-ish” (with assassination attemps and kidnapping of the President’s daughter, etc.) but the rest of the episodes were brilliant especially the long tracking shot they would put into nearly every episode. There have been been five years of excellent television. Let’em go out on top.

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