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This past month has been jam-packed for me. It seems like once Halloween hits, time just speeds up, months fly by in a blink and then one day you look up in Wal-Mart and everything is heart shaped. So, I felt as if I hadn’t had time to watch, listen to or read anything new to report back on this month. But then it hit me, that that’s not entirely true. There is a show that I watch nightly (often the same episode every night, thanks to my precious husband who falls asleep, without fail, right smack dab in the middle of an episode and then restarts said episode night-after-night) that I absolutely love, and that I have been shocked many of my fellow millennials haven’t seen, and that show is The West Wing.
The West Wing boasts a star-studded cast, including Martin Sheen, Rob Lowe, Dulé Hill, Bradley Whitford (my fav) and Allison Janney. The show centers around the President of the United States (Martin Sheen) and his dedicated staff who work tirelessly to ensure the betterment of the country and the lives of all Americans. The seven-season show ran from 1999-2006, and the 42-minute episodes are so well written and have such great flow that it’s easy to get caught up in them, only to realize its 2 o’clock in the morning and you have kids to get ready for school in a few short hours.
There are many things I love about this show, the cast, the sets, the plots, etc. But the thing that stands out most to me, is that the issues they were talking about on the show 20-25 years ago, are the same, exact issues that we are still talking about today. Which makes the show still feel incredibly relevant. The writers did such a fantastic job broaching hard, polarizing topics (immigration, women’s rights, etc.) in a way that left the viewer with hope at the end of every episode. They leave you feeling that compromise, empathy and understanding can win-out at the end of every day, and that whether a person is right-wing, left-wing, independent or otherwise, we’re all Americans and we can progress forward together. And that is a sentiment I think we can all get behind right now.
You can stream all seven seasons of The West Wing on MAX.
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