The Worst Wing

Content warning: date rape, sexual violence We come back to you now... at the turn of the tide. And it's a banger of a two-part finale for Season 4. Emma joins us from the New York studio which is actually just a relatively austerely decorated spare bedroom that's clearly set up poorly for wide profile recording of vocal audio! Sorry about the sound quality on this one y'all. A sparkling throng of...

A strange inversion of our "bottle episode" gripes on today's ep, because the writers have realized they are approaching a denouement that requires certain conditions to be met... which are not!! It's a race to the mcguffin! Detective Joe Quincy sets out to sleuth up a series of incredibly tenuous connections that WOW are revealed to be an administration-defining political mishap for Sir Hasn't Re...

It's convenient to the incredible amount of content spewing forth from the trickster god playground known as our reality that this week's episode of the West Wing is REALLY boring, so we spend the latter half of this show on bants about the "coup attempt" that occurred in Washington this week. MF DOOM died and the news was broken New Years Eve, which is awful and tragic, one last kick in the taint...

Bumbling at you from the frozen north, this week we are joined by Jaya Sundaresh, editor at large for Albany Proper and contributing writer to various left publications. It's unfortunate that we did not have a better episode of this garbage show to share with her and with you all listening, but this one was Real Boring, as opposed to Slow Boring. A couple administration officials get stuck with th...

It's ladies' night at the plutocrat... club! An approaching-good episode of the show tots up a whole lot of shit into the relationship between Amy, Abby, and the administration's disdain for women's issues. We get the ur-WASP Daughter of the American Revolution Matriarch to stop by and be glad-handed for... reasons? The stakes are unclear. *stands up Kirk Douglasly* I'M MARION COATESWORTH HAYE. A...

We're back from Thanksgiving break and heading straight into the maw of the COVID mines, with another cringeworthy episode chockablock with casual Sorkin Sexism and other woke garbage. President Bartlet laments his ability to not have The Right Kind of militarist blunder, in spite of having an actual Vietnam War Veteran as his chief of staff. Dumbshit Will Bailey lets the stress of the job bring o...

Checking in from the road it's a trip to California that in classic fashion results in "a complete wash"! Kundu has landed squarely in The Cool Zone and we're outchea landing troops and MBTs at the airport... but not TOO MANY of them. Or else, the world might, do... something? Might further condemn our unilateral interventionism? Some Sorkin Sexism, a buncha killer Jean-Paul owns, and flopsweat ca...

Another soporific entry in the stumbling post-first-episode fourth season. More bible-finding, more inexplicable character trait reassignment, and we promise only about 4 minutes of ELECTION TALK because this was recorded before JoeB!'s victory was codified by the media. Thank god we have CNN to let us know when our chief executive officially wins election? Anyway stay safe and do not stop screami...

Hello my name is Talmidge Cregg, I'm a definitely-real person whose daughter has ascended the ranks of American Deathmatch to press secretary, and I have Alzheimer's Disease. Anyway that's the entirety of the first episode we covered, but we spend another 30 minutes chatting about genocide and unilateral intervention in the context of Sorkin's (bad) take on Rwanda in the 90s. Read Gourevitch for a...

Apologies for Dave's cold this week, seasons are a-changing and we don't all have access to our fat wet president's miracle drugs. The good news is there's almost nothing interesting to talk about for this absolute bomb of an episode, so we end up wandering around on tangents! About other things! Music from Guster and Carolina Chocolate Drops.

O FRABJOUS DAY What news on yon twitter feed breaks? It is the 'roni, and Donlad Trunglk is the sufferer! Posting this nonsense mainly because this week's episode was actually certified by Both Of Us as the authorities in the know as GOOD. It was a GOOD EPISODE weeoo weeeooo good music too in the breaks from OK Go, Body Count, Spirit Family Reunion, and King's College Choir

Another meandering episode capped off with what Aaron Sorkin probably thinks of some sort of deep, meaningful self-critique contained within his art, but that comes across as navelgazing and baseless. I've been hanging drywall all week and I don't have the energy to put more words here. songs from Nico Vega, Not On Tour, and Tool (come at me haters).

In lieu of the 150ish words of quotidian, florid bitching about this show I usually shit out into this space, I'd like to instead say that I've had really excellent experiences with Persian/Iranian people and culture throughout my life. Like, to the point where it stands out from any other given specific nationality/ethnicity when I think about my exposure as a white American to the remainder of t...

They say power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely, and they also say that power is the ultimate aphrodisiac. Well, in the West Wing only the last part is apparently true because holy shit does that sweet ambrosia of VICTORY result in everyone turning their Horny Prohibitors right the fuck off and getting their mack on. Five couples and one Bruno are in various stages of their Bone thr...

Well hey when this goes down mid-season you already know what America Decides heh heh Spoiler alerts the prez wins reelection, Sam's promise is called in, and we continue to just waste opportunities to talk about anything substantial, boiling down systemic issues to just-so stories and morality plays across a very wide spectrum for a 44 minute show. MS is back baby! In pog form! Music from Bloc Pa...

The big day has finally arrived and maybe just maybe, the Administration Protagonists, are going to... WIN?? Plenty of antiquated notions about international relations, tainted by the presumption of American Hegemony coming out of the Cold War, and we don't even really get to see an articulated policy position IN the debate except for BOTH CANDIDATES saying "Taxes Are Bad". So what da fuck, y'all?...

I feel like I'm reaping some sort of karmic reward for praising Sorkin's talent in the first episode of this season, because everything since then has just been downhill. This is another episode where my brain truly struggled to remain attentive given nothing of consequence ever seemed to be happening on screen. Debate Camp is a place where nerds go, nobody cares about your dipshit rhetorical supe...

Greetings from the most boring episode in a LONG time. I dunno there's some stuff that happens, Josh is a petulant weirdo about his relationship and Amy is great, they do... a speech? in a church or something I guess anyway I hope you all are staying safe and healthy, it feels like the Roni is circling closer and closer with each passing week and I'm sure it's not good for anybody's brain. And sch...

This episode is like the polar opposite of the last one: no character drama save for the VERY end (and it's tired and trite), no real compelling political fights and in fact an embodiment of the sheer moribund garbage that the modern Democratic Party represents? fuck! Rock the VOOOOOTE. JUST REGISTER. YOU DON'T HAVE TO VOTE FOR US WE PROMISE! BUT DON'T YOU LIKE AIMEE MANN?? music from Counting Cro...

A banger of a two-part episode to kick off season four, wherein very little politicking of import happens, but a WHOOOOLE lot of betraying certain prejudices and weird hangups does. It's actually really good television? Shit! Follow Toby/Josh/Donna as they wend their way through America's Heartland Trademark All Rights Reserved Brought To You By Altria! Thrill at the fallout of the Sharif assassin...

Well it's been a long road to get here: we can finally just merk a diplomat because we feel like it. Great job Bartlet Administration, definitely progressive and humanitarian of you! A lot of justification flying around and enshrining respect for The Process rather than any actual legal legitimacy, this episode concludes with a pretty decent montage of three characters at their respective personal...

What's that, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs? It's hard to discern wartime from peacetime? Wow, couldn't imagine why! Anyway today's episode is the second to last of season 3, wherein the administration prepares itself to get in the brainspace to violate international law and diplomatic immunity in order to Kill Bad Man. We also get a lot of relationship dynamic drama which, frankly, GOOD because CJ/...

A bevy of guest stars round out a pretty jam-packed episode here where the workers in the White House are COMPLETELY beaten down by the bosses to the point that they agree to organize... on the bosses' behalf! In a minor plot point. Anyway this episode begins to set up the Abdul Sharif Bad Man arc, we get more of Simon and CJ, and an extremely young Evan Rachel Wood makes an appearance, one of her...

Following on the non-canonical "interview episode" full of ACTUAL domestic enemies, we have a relatively politically-tame show this week, mainly by dint of the fact that Aaron Sorkin probably realized halfway through the script that he COULD do something interesting with the Saudi Arabia plotline, but bailed out IMMEDIATELY. We leave heavily on a certain canon of cultural references throughout thi...

Greetings from the novel incarnation of hellworld we all now inhabit! Instead of focusing on the evolving upheaval of society that will likely end human civilization as we know it, today we're going to talk about how shitty the senior members of the Bartlet administration treat everybody else! There's a lot of staffer abuse in this episode, but some touching, redemptive scenes around Vice Presiden...