To worry about Dh and the West Wing

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I am prepared to be told IABU in the following counts :

1. Caring about fictional characters
2. Talking about a TV show everyone else stopped caring about 20 years ago
3. Reading Internet spoilers

Dh and I have been watching the West Wing for ages now and are nearing the end. I stumbled upon some spoilers that reveal that a character dies suddenly and in dramatic circumstances. I also found out that this decision came about because the actor died similarly suddenly. Dh is very emotionally attached to this character....AIBU to worry about how he's gonna take this??

I still cry when spoiler person dies. I also try and talk someone else out of buying a car every time I watch it.

I would love to be watching it for the first time though.

In the alternate world in fringe WW was still going.

Was very sad about the other death, but Mrs L. was so shocking.

Love The Newsroom too, not many do clever dialogue like Sorkin.

I think I might start The West Wing again next week.

Well written fictional characters do invoke an emotional response. Mrs L's death was shocking to me. Must watch WW again!

Best TV show ever.

I'm so sad I like to time the Butterball hotline for the end of November. Currently on In The Shadow of Two Gunmen.

GW NOW!!! NOW!!!

Ahhhhh gotcha now mrscropley! Maybe I'll rename the garden shed!

We watched TWW for the first time last year. We decided to 'give it a go' because we'd watched and loved Newsroom. We were not disappointed at all. We knew that the actor had died but kept hoping that he'd make it go the end, but then of course, we saw the message at the start of one of the episodes that made it clear he wouldn't. Very sad.
We'd also love him and Jimmy Smits when they were in LA Law, so it was nice to see them together again in TWW.

I haven't rewatched Newsroom - might be time to do that, though I know I'll cry again at the final episode.

The American Heroes speech, showed it to my Y11s when we were doing speech writing and they turned into addicts! Toby is my weird crush, after Leo. Such an amazing series, still not bettered.

Reds - definitely stealing that plan for my incoming top set Y10s!

(Though I'd Josh, then Sam. "That boyish charm"...)

A friend of mine has counted up the amount of time he and his wife have spent watching and rewatching WW and it amount to MONTHS of their lives.

I am about due for another rewatch but with Trump in the White House I'm not sure I'd be able to cope with the disappointment of coming back to real life afterwards.

I must be the only person left on earth who hasn't watched it. I've watched some random bits of some episodes when it was on tv, but that's about it.

Where do you find it nowadays? I don't seem to have it on Netflix. Not sure I want to be bothered with DVDs. Any ideas? I don't live in uk.

I have Season 1 on VHS cassettes!! Shows age

It's completely awesome and 'two cathedrals' is the best episode I reckon. Did any of you see 'studio 60 on the sunset strip'? It got canned after one season but has Josh and Chandler from friends in It. It's great but wasn't given time to develop.

It's only on USA Netflix otherwise amazon/iTunes type thing probably best bet

I managed to view it free on Amazon Prime before they starter charging for it. They posted that it would no longer be free in 21 days. I was on about Season 4 or 5 at the time. Ready meals were quite the thing for those 21 days!

It used to be a box set on the NOW TV but I think they withdrew it.

Really enjoyed Studio 60, wish it had continued. I've loved Timothy Busfield since Thirtysomething.

Oh no just realised we have nothing to play DVDs on so I can't watch it until November :(

Boo - I've got Amazon prime, netflix and now tv. I can't possibly pay for it and you lot have totally got me in the mood for a rewatch. Last time we borrowed mum's dvds but it feels so old school/ full of effort vs streaming so lazy

I read that the actor playing Toby did not agree with his later plotline but Sorkin had gone by then and the new broom didn't care. I don't think it sits well with many fans.

I cried my eyes out at that death in WW, even though I knew that the actor had died. Best programme ever. I watch it every year, every series of it. It's one of the only things that I binge watch. It is one of the most wonderful series of shows ever made.

What intrigues me is how current so many of the storylines feel...

I love the West Wing. Watched it a squillion times and could watch it again and again.

Did any of you see 'studio 60 on the sunset strip'? It got canned after one season but has Josh and Chandler from friends in It. It's great but wasn't given time to develop.

The pilot and the first handful of episodes are good, but it loses it's way completely and was utterly terrible by the end.

In the very first episode, Bartlet accidentally rode into a tree, described like this:

The President, while riding a bicycle on his vacation in Jackson Hole,
came to a sudden arboreal stop