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The West Wing: The Complete Second Season

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I bought season 2 for 14.99. Yep... great deal, but side 2 of disc one was defective. Sadly, I didn't get around to watching this for over 30 days after I got the set... so... I could only watch episode 7 starting from the halfway point. kind of a bummer. Otherwise... GREAT SHOW... cruddy return policy.

The Close Captioning still fails to actually accurately reflect what was said in the show. The bonus features and commentaries are from two years after the fact (just like Seasons 1 and 3). Also, the DVDs are double-sided.

Still love the show though.

Been a fan of The West Wing since the first season. I have been waiting for second one to come out. The West Wing has some of the best writing and acting on television - I would say the show is to drama television as Friends is to sitcoms. I absolutely recommend getting The West Wing - The Complete Second Season, as well as The West Wing - The Complete First Season. They're well-worth the money.

Sadly, this DVD does not do the 2nd season justice. The extras are almost non-existant. A few commentaries and a "virtual set tour" result in far less than half the extras the Season 1 DVD had. Still, at 40 bucks its a good deal, just not a complete steal like Season 1 (even though this season was vastly superior).

See my review of the first season. My politics lean towards conservative more than liberal. And I don't really care for Martin Sheen that much. At least I didn't before watching this series.

Still, this is GREAT TV. In fact, it is a great show regardless of the venue.

The second season is even better than the first. If you want a show that will make you laugh, make you cry and make you feel good that you are an American try this one.

You just have to see it to appreciate what I am saying.

This is one of the very few movies that I would consider buying so that I could watch it again and again.

"The West Wing" (or "The Left Wing" as us conservatrives call it) is a brilliant piece of work, well written and very well acted. For political junkies, it is Manna from Heaven. Aaron Sorkin is a dedicated Democrat, as is the star's show, Martin Sheen. It is a show that attempts to make Democrats look like idealistic, well meaning, courageous, 24/7 workaholics. These people do exist, but in light of the recent death of Ronald Reagan and the new Bill Clinton book, it is instructive to recall that this show, along with "The American President", was an attempt to disuade the public from the realities of the Clinton Presidency. If the Democrats were all like the ones shown in "The West Wing", they would get 90 percent of the vote.

Th show does try to stay balanced on occasion, but a comparison between President Bartlett and his wife and Bill and Hillary Clinton provides a dose of reality that is not of help to Clinton apologists.

STEVEN TRAVERS
AUTHOR OF "BARRY BONDS: BASAEBALL'S SUPERMAN"
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This is the best show on television and this collection is a must-have if you love The West Wing.

Much like the first season, this series mixes drama, comedy and emotion all in one punch. This season had me going from one to the next episode just needing to see what happens next. This seaon brought out a lot of emotion on some very serious topics (you'll have to watch it yourself as unlike others on here - I'm not going to tell you what happens). I only wish that Season III was out already as there are several of us down here (US Military in the Middle East) that have been watching these two season with me (all in the space of two weeks) and we all really want to see more and quick. You still have my backing on this series. Concider season III already sold before it comes out.

Words cannot express the sheer euphoria that one feel after watching the season finale "Two Cathedrals". It was drama at its finest, pure unadulterated form. Heck, I would become a US citizen if it had a president and senior white house staff as what Bartlet got. It shows what we aspire our politicians to be, what we hope they would turn out to be, in the annals of power.

Aaron Sorkin has conjured up an array of characters and their stories which defy description and blows away every other show on TV. I have never loved a series such as this, Seinfeld and CSI comes close but still nowhere near The West Wing.

Once again, you dont have to be an american to enjoy what this series has to offer. It would help to understand the political scenario a bit, but you just need to be capable of enjoying a good drama. And once in a while if you forget its all fiction and actually begin waiting for the day for people with integrity and character to serve you from the West Wing, then get out there and vote them in to power.

I had only seen perhaps one show, about a year ago (to catch Danica McKellar's character), before I bought the first season.
I must say this was a pleasant surprise. Well-written by Aaron Sorkin, who also wrote two Rob Reiner films "A Few Good Men" and "The American President", the depth of the political and social subject matter is very good.

As most people know, the series has garnered many Emmy awards.

Season two literally takes up where season one ended, thanks to the season one cliff-hanger ending involving an assassination attempt. Season two continues to investigate a wide range of issues - from drug-company motives and profits, political asylum for persecuted Chinese Christians, education measures, and the president's muscular dystrophy.

The series still has some humor amid the drama. In one scene, after three months, the president finally meets an attractive young Republican attorney in her White House basement office - as she is drunk and dancing and singing in her bathrobe. He gives her a greeting humorously suggested earlier by Rob Lowe - "Yeah, Ainsley. I wanted to say hello and to mention, you know, uh...a lot of people assumed you were hired because you were a blonde Republican sex kitten, and, well, they're obviously wrong. Keep up the good work."

Waiting for season three.