Fumarama

So I've started watching the West Wing again....and if I can forget what it once was, and think of it as a brand new piece of tv, it is actually pretty good. I mean the characters are likeable and the whole political campaign story was pretty compelling, and I cared enough about the what was going on to be genuinely excited that Santos won.

Also, this campaign was a lot better paced than the one Sorkin wrote. I mean Sorkin was great at pacing single episodes, but at story arcs he was terrible. So while every campaign episode was great, it moved too quickly or something. This moved at a far better pace.

Also #2, these writers do a much better impression of the cable news networks. Sorkin was just too witty or something, so even his television announcers were kind of funny and cool. In this show, all the breaking news on the tv sounded like real breaking news. At some point, an announcement on one of the tvs was like "just to remind our viewers, red states means they went for Vinick and Blue for Santos," which was fabulous because that was precisely the type of idiotic reminders you get election night.