The West Wing

Just keeps being on top form. Brilliant scripts, clever plots suberbly acted. Ive just re-watched and it hasnt dated at all.

This was one of my husbands favorite series.

One of the best shows ever.Old shows are still current topics, shows how nothing ever does get done in Washington. House of cards now the best show on TV. It shows exactly how nothing gets done.

If you dont know, this series is great but you will miss out on the last two episodes of Season Three because of a defective DVD. I returned it three times and still got the same result.

Season 4 Episode 22 of The West Wing contains the tensest ten minutes of the entire series, and some of the tensest ten minutes of television history. The last ten minutes of the episode use a somewhat slow-paced dance song, strobe lights and camera effects to build tension across disparate subplots and leave you terrified for the future. It could have worked as the season finale all on its own, though -- luckily for viewers during the initial airing -- it was instead the penultimate episode of the season, so they had one more episode to get some partial resolution with a better hope for the next season rather than a world-ending, spiraling-into-despair Leo running to the Residence and an uncharacteristic fade to white. What makes the last ten minutes so absolutely incredible is that foreshadowing was there throughout the episode (Im writing this review my second time watching the whole series), but theres plenty of good humor and some melancholy up until the last ten minutes that imply it will be a sentimental episode rather than end in a thriller. Brilliant twists, and 100% perfect execution. The only reason Im able to stop and review this episode instead of immediately watching the next one is that I already know how it ends -- I cant imagine the suspense of having to wait seven days to watch the season finale like viewers did during the initial run, let alone a full summer, as they could have done had they made this episode a cliffhanger finale.

Since they dont list the eps in the technical details, here you go:

Weve have watched since season one and very much enjoy each of the seasons. Well written, still meaningful for today and great acting!

Ordered West Wing Seasons 3-7 at the same time. Just opened the box to watch season 4 and found disk 5 missing from the set. Now past the returned date so it appears Im out of luck.

Fourth season is said to be the best. No argument here. Character development is great. Rob Lowe still in cast.

One of the best shows on TV, always great story lines and classic writing, good look inside the White House