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I started a rewatch of the West Wing a couple of days ago. I really liked this show, and I've watched through it a few times. But not in the last decade or so, because I worried it would not land well. I worried it would just make me sad, or angry.
But it turns out that no, I'm having fun with it. It's impossibly naive, but that's fine. I'm reading it almost like a fairy tale. And in that light, it's still fun.
@jenniferplusplus I’m halfway through M*A*S*H …
@jenniferplusplus I am glad to hear it for you. My wife and I can't watch it, or "Madame Secretary". We have tried.
Too much to watch TV where the central concept is that serious and decent people want to make the government work.
We just burst into tears, and go back to our BBC murder mysteries.
@GeePawHill It could have gone that way, for sure
@jenniferplusplus Yeah, and I'm not over-calling, Jennifer, I *do* believe in hope. We're just, we're not able to go there just now. I'm glad you are.
Can't even watch Veep anymore for similar reasons.
@mastodonmigration @GeePawHill @jenniferplusplus The Diplomat works, because it suggests that there are good serious people in government and that they absolutely are not the ones leading it.
@msbellows @GeePawHill @jenniferplusplus
Hmmm... Just finding any fiction with a US government plot line too painful to endure. Been watching a lot of Britbox mysteries too, and somehow the Tour de France bike race captured our interest.
@jenniferplusplus thanks! I haven't revisit any shows that were recorded before 2016 because I feel they are SO naive that they would be impossible to watch
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