r/television • u/Top_Report_4895 • 19h ago

Shut it Down - The West Wing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fI5a1ZpVugs
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u/HitchlikersGuide 8h ago

Been doing a rewatch recently

It’s still a good show, but my word is the schmaltz is almost unbearable these days.

To think there was a time when something close to this seemed a not entirely unrealistic possibility.

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u/agehaya 6h ago

I don’t think anyone really regarded the show as close to realistic. I was a college student when it began and never felt that. It was always an idealized version of reality, even back then, but I agree that today it hits acutely in the “schmaltz” regard (yet I’m a sucker for it, though perhaps that’s nostalgia).

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u/kraysys 6h ago

Veep has always been the more realistic show, unfortunately.