USA Today had this bit on what viewers can expect from this season’s West Wing. It was something of an interesting read, because it looks like the cast is really going to be shaken up quite a bit. I’m not sure that’s a good thing.
Last season was the first full season, to my knowledge, without Aaron Sorkin doing the writing. That fact really showed in the lack of quality on the show. The characters became shadows of their former selves and were no longer compelling. The quality of the earlier seasons on DVD almost brought me to tears to see how the mighty show had fallen. In Season 5 the show had to resort to ER-esque efforts at drama to get people to watch. Some prospective plot lines for this season: helicopter crashes into the press briefing room! A single-mom staffer gives birth in the Oval Office! Everybody’s a lesbian!
Just bring back, Sorkin, guys. You really didn’t deserve the Emmy you won for last year, and if you don’t turn this ship around and soon you are going to lose one rabid fan. Were it not for the mind-blowing strengths of the first four seasons you would have lost me already.
