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Season 3 opens with the West Wing going under lock down as a suspected terrorist is found to be working at the White House. Stuck with a group of high school students who were visiting the White House, the staffers, President Bartlet, and the First Lady all debate the issues regarding terrorism.
Are these folks just a wee bit over-impressed with themselves or what? Has Sorkin perhaps just slightly overestimated the importance of what he has to say?
It was intelligent, acutely relevant and well acted, yet populated as always mostly by characters on speedspeak with one glib, witty voice, as if Sorkin were a ventriloquist.
I've grown increasingly underwhelmed by the profoundly disappointing third season of The West Wing... I tried to accentuate the positive for as long as I could, but eventually, the show's chronic shortcomings just wore me down.
Earnest in its tone, admirable in its charitable intent and God-awful in its condescending pedantry - if irony had been dead, it has by now clawed itself out of its coffin and is roaming the moonlit countryside looking for revenge.