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 The West Wing - Season 1 Part 1 (DVD)
 The West Wing - Season 1 Part 1 (DVD) ... Warner Home Video / Features of the DVD: Box set, PAL / Aaron Sorkin's American political drama The West Wing, set in the White House, has won innumerable awards--and rightly so. Its depiction of a well-meaning Democrat administration has warmed the hearts of countless Americans. However, The West Wing is more than mere feel-good viewing for sentimental patriots. It is among the best-written, sharpest, funny and moving American TV series of all time. In its first series, The West Wing established the cast of characters who comprise the White House staff. There's Chief of Staff Leo McGarry (John Spencer), a recovering alcoholic whose efforts to be the cornerstone of the administration contribute to the break-up of his marriage. CJ (Alison Janney) is the formidable Press Spokeswoman embroiled in a tentative on-off relationship with Timothy (Thirtysomething) Busfield's reporter. Brilliant but grumpy communications deputy Toby Ziegler, Rob Lowe's brilliant but faintly nerdy Sam Seaborn and brilliant but smart-alecky Josh Lyman make up the rest of the inner circle. Initially, the series' creators had intended to keep the President off-screen. Wisely, however, they went with Martin Sheen's Jed Bartlet, whose eccentric volatility, caution, humour and strength in a crisis make for such an impressively plausible fictional President that polls once expressed a preference for Bartlet over the genuine incumbent. The issues broached in the first series have striking, often prescient contemporary relevance. We see the President having to be talked down from a "disproportionate response" when terrorists shoot down a plane carrying his personal doctor, or acting as broker in a dangerous stand-off between India and Pakistan. Gun control laws, gays in the military, Fundamentalist pressure groups are all addressed--the latter in a most satisfying manner ("Get your fat asses out of the White House!")--while the episode "Take This Sabbath Day" is a superb dramatic meditation on Capital punishment. Handled incorrectly, The West Wing could have been turgid, didactic propaganda for The American Way. However, the writers are careful to show that, decent as this administration is, its achievements, though hard-won, are minimal. Moreover, the brisk, staccato-like, almost musical exchanges of dialogue, between Josh and his PA Donna, for instance, as they pace purposefully up and down the corridors are the show's abiding joy. This is wonderful and addictive viewing.--David StubbsNewest Review: ... Wing really hit the ground running and exploded with real life stories, events, characters and dialogue right from the very ... more ... first episode. I loved Season 1 Part 1 and can watch it again and again. In fact, having seen them all, it is interesting to go back and see how the series started.
My favourite character is President Josiah Bartlett, played by an excellent Martin Sheen. He is what you would want from a political leader. He is sensitive, honest, noble and most entertainingly, extremely intelligent. It is like having Stephen Fry run a country.
The first season is so realistic. Although it is very fast-paced in terms of the filmi...more |
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The West Wing - Season 1 Part 1 [DVD]
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The West Wing - Season 1 Part 1 (DVD): Great Entertainment (187 words)
by - written on 16/08/08 (Very useful, 7 readings)
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The West Wing is a show set inside the white house, with Martin Sheen as the president of the United States of America. The dialogue is fast and pacey, and whilst not naturalistic in the slightest, is one of the great joys of the show. It reminds you of thirties and forties Hollywood cinema, where screenplays relied more on the dialogue and acting than a lot of mainstream films do nowadays. It is this dialogue that is used to bounce through a lot of the contemporary issues in America and the World at the moment. Characters have political debates between them, although as a whole the show tends to lean to the left quite a bit. The script is written ... Read the complete review
Where the Wings Begin (246 words)
by - written on 05/12/08 (Very useful, 57 readings)
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Quite often with high-powered series, such as the West Wing, they start off as a great idea but the characters and the story line do not develop into their full potential until they have one season under their belt. This is not the case with The West Wing. The West Wing really hit the ground running and exploded with real life stories, events, characters and dialogue right from the very first episode. I loved Season 1 Part 1 and can watch it again and again. In fact, having seen them all, it is interesting to go back and see how the series started. My favourite character is President Josiah Bartlett, played by an excellent Martin Sheen. He is ... Read the complete review
The West Wing - Season 1 Part 1 (DVD): Drama at its best. (318 words)
by - written on 09/11/08 (Very useful, 24 readings)
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I always heard great things about the West Wing when it was shown originally almost 10 years ago, but I was working away and never had a chance to watch the show, on a whim we bought the 1st season on DVD to see what all the fuss is about and all I can say is WOW. Martin Sheen plays President Josiah Bartlett, a well meaning Democratic president in the middle of his first year as president and among others Rob Lowe as Sam Seaborn who is the Deputy White House communications Director and gives an incredible performance as the idealistic young seaborn. At the start of the first season we see Bartlett and his staff stuck in the neutral having to concede and ... Read the complete review
The presidents men (337 words)
by - written on 13/05/02 (Useful, 278 readings)
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This program crept up on me on the TV. To such an extent that I bought the DVD when it appeared. To those not familiar with the program it centres around everything happening behind the scenes in the West Wing of the White House. It looks at the Chiefs of Protocol, the Press Secretary, the President and his aides and the speech writers for a Democratic President who was not one of the normal politicos. The scripting is very tight , the action busy, and all the characters well formed once you get past the first episode. The cast is good including Martin Sheen as President, Allison Janney as Pres secretary CJ, John Spencer as Leo and Rob Lowe as Sam. ... Read the complete review
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