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As I’ve been spending so much time with Sorkin’s productions these days, I’ve realized that oftentimes what’s most memorable about the episodes he writes aren’t the ideological monologues or grand gestures, but the more subtle character beats. In these two stand alone episodes, the plots may be forgettable (for the most part), but the moments with the staff stay with you.
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America’s not the greatest nation in the world anymore, but it can be, according to Aaron Sorkin Will McAvoy and Mackenzie MacHale. Likewise, The Newsroom doesn’t have the most compelling premiere episode in television history, and it isn’t even the best pilot of a Sorkin series. Yet with an engaging news program grounding the narrative and cast committed to their work, there’s enough promise in the pilot to recommend the series.
Let’s break it down…
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You know you’ve got a special heroine when she recognizes quotes from Gilbert and Sullivan musicals and speaks in iambic pentameter when nervous. This week The West Wing welcomes Emily Procter’s Ainsley Hayes, one of the series’ most memorable guest stars.
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As the President predicted in the premiere, the weeks and months following the attack at Roslin leaves more victims in its wake than just those with the bullet holes. Our flashback recap of the second season of The West Wing continues this week with “The Midterms,” and not everyone is holding it together as well as they seem.
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So this summer is quickly becoming the Summer of Sorkin here at Bitch Stole My Remote. In addition to covering his new HBO series The Newsroom (starting Sunday June 24th at 10 EST), I will be diving back into the second season Aaron Sorkin’s little man-behind-the-White-House-curtain drama The West Wing. Every Wednesday (the same night it aired back in 2000-2001 on NBC!), I’ll be posting a flashback recap of the next episode of Season 2. So if you’d like to join me, watch one episode each week and visit here on Wednesdays so we can bitch it out. How well does the season, which is arguably the meatiest and best written of the series, hold up twelve years later? Is Sorkin’s optimism regarding the federal government still relevant? Is CJ’s hair still somewhere between atrocious and sad? Let’s find out!
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With the end of the “regular” television network season it’s time to move into our summer schedule. That means season finales and new shows to recap. Hope you’ve got cable, enjoy genre shows and have a lot of space on your DVR on Sundays!
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