Goodbye West Wing: Scene-by-scene
Friday, July 28th, 2006
Apart from Charles and Camilla’s wedding, this was the first attempt at liveblogging a TV show. At the time, guardian.co.uk was already well known for their football minute-by-minute coverage and their cricket over-by-overs, but this was the first attempt at covering a dramatic, edited programme in the same way. To everyone’s surprise it worked very well (even if I do say so myself). Of course, the comments at the bottom may not reflect that feeling, of course, but a) so it goes and b) they’d come to love it soon enough. Well, some of them.
The last two episodes of The West Wing, scene-by-scene (live)
Tonight, the seven series presidency of Josiah Bartlet came to an end on UK television (in ended in the US mid-May) and as a celebration and tribute to this, Culture Vulture were online all night, covering the double header scene-by-scene. I didn’t know what’s going to happen, I hadn’t had access to fancy preview tapes, and while I did my best, I can only type so fast, so bear with me. If you want a full and comprehensive intricately detailed recount, that’s what Television Without Pity do best. I recommend them highly…
Remember - don’t read this if you have any interest at all in being surprised when you do watch it, it’s going to be chock full of spoilers. It is, in effect, one big spoiler.
Read on for a ’summary’ of the last two episodes of the West Wing, blogged live from the sofa…
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