West Wing

Thanks to dvd collections I can now watch TV shows without actually following them on a weekly basis. The last show I can remember that I actually followed on a weekly basis was picket fences when I was in my teens. Anyway, I am now in the middle of the first season of West Wing. Its an interesting setting for a TV show - the US president's office. And they sure do make it look like an interesting place with intelligent people. It comes across as a very busy place thanks to some nice camera movements and spurts of fast paced dialogue. Very refreshing style. The writers seem to use real events to inspire some of their stories. I was surprised to see Kargil mentioned in one of the episodes. The writers also seem to have a tendency to use the words "okay" and "i know" rather excessively. It gets a little irritating after a while. And they had to introduce a romance thread into the whole thing. So if you can endure those two aspects of the show, its pretty entertaining.