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Aristus

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7. "The West Wing".

Mon Jun 24, 2013, 10:34 AM

Jun 2013

Season 5 (or 6, I forget which - but long after Aaron Sorkin's departure) in which C.J. Cregg, White House Press Secretary, is promoted to White House Chief of Staff, after Bartlet fires Leo McGarry. Nevermind that C.J. was far less qualified for the job than Josh Lyman, the Deputy Chief of Staff. The move was far too soapy for such a classy series as TWW, and signaled the series' shift from being character-driven to being plot-driven. To this day, I've never seen a single episode from Seasons 5-7 more than once.

I own Seasons 1-4, when Aaron Sorkin was head writer, on DVD, and have seen all of these episodes dozens of times.

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Name a TV show and when it "Jumped the Shark"... [View all] Locut0s Jun 2013 OP

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