I love the writing and the actors like everybody else.
But there is no season arc.
Every episode is like the one before: funny, great, wonderful.
And without change or development.
I think 23 years after the start of WEST WING we want more than we wanted back then. We loved FRIENDS for being always the same. Today a show like FRIENDS wouldn't work. WEST WING has the same "problem" if you want to call it a problem - it's its reliability.
Storytelling has changed since then. We want our characters to be able to develop or at least we want to peel them as an onion and discover new sides inside of them. We want to dive deeper.
WEST WING is brilliant and enjoyable on so many levels, but it doesn't let us look deeper into its protagonists. Who won't get challenged, not to their cores, and who won't change at all as a result.
For me this is not satisfiying enough in 2022. At least not in a bingeable way.
But there is no season arc.
Every episode is like the one before: funny, great, wonderful.
And without change or development.
I think 23 years after the start of WEST WING we want more than we wanted back then. We loved FRIENDS for being always the same. Today a show like FRIENDS wouldn't work. WEST WING has the same "problem" if you want to call it a problem - it's its reliability.
Storytelling has changed since then. We want our characters to be able to develop or at least we want to peel them as an onion and discover new sides inside of them. We want to dive deeper.
WEST WING is brilliant and enjoyable on so many levels, but it doesn't let us look deeper into its protagonists. Who won't get challenged, not to their cores, and who won't change at all as a result.
For me this is not satisfiying enough in 2022. At least not in a bingeable way.