With the especially poignant propaganda coming out nowadays I'm thinking of watching The West Wing. Is the show actually good or just pure cringe?
With the especially poignant propaganda coming out nowadays I'm thinking of watching The West Wing. Is the show actually good or just pure cringe?
Liberal "polite politics" porn.
Listen to "The West Wing Thing" instead. Saves you the trouble of having to watch it. Or just watch the episode and then listen to the appropriate WWT ep.
Man I just do not understand the idea of "this is something we dislike so we're going to shit on it every week." Like more power to them and their audience, but how do you spend so much time on something you hate? Even listening to an episode.
I don't know who serious Dave and Josh were when they first started the series but their story is that they wanted to talk about the West Wing as a media phenomenon that was taken to heart by young adults who went on to be a part of US politics and how this fictional media may have influenced those real world political creatures.
What they quickly realized is that the writing of Sorkin was kinda fucked. The stories were fucked, the dialog was fucked, etc. And then realizing that "holy shit, real world politicians were influence to go into politics because of this show" and seeing how real world people in positions of authority are doing "West Wing" logic on the stage of US politics.
As the series goes on, they spend less and less time talking about the actual show and just have a guest on to talk about a few points from the show and then talk about absolutely anything else.
Making fun of bad media is fun.
It's good to analyze bad things, especially when they're very influential.