Tuesday, May 16, 2006

Farewell, The West Wing

Last Sunday, NBC broadcast the final episode of the highly acclaimed, award winning series The West Wing.

It was a decent, gracious, appropriate finale for a series that always strived to talk about important and serious issues without ever becoming a tearjerker or a pompous soapbox.

Ray and I always watched the show, from the very beginning, and saw the end coming from afar, slowly induced by declining ratings.

Overall, it was one of the best shows ever produced under any aspect, casting, scripts, sets, believability, and its ability to completely involve the viewer. It could make you cry and laugh in the same episode, all the while teaching you something new about how the world of politics works.

It will be sorely missed. Farewell, The West Wing.

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