I’m a politics nut, but an idealistic one, so I couldn’t help but delve into the world of Bartlet’s administration once more. This was a re-watch for me, but I can’t resist it. The polar opposite of Veep in so many ways, I binged the first four seasons (the only valid ones) in about three weeks. It’s a heartbreaking, hilarious dramedy, which comes well recommended. Each season “adapts” a Shakespeare play or two: the first season is Hamlet, the second season is Macbeth and the third season is King Lear. It stars a baby Rachel McAdams in its first season, too.
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This is a little Canadian comfort show about a professional theatre festival that involves a ghost/hallucination, a haunted former Hamlet, his ex-girlfriend (or current girlfriend, depending on the season), and a whole host of quirky characters who populate the theatre company administration and cohort.
This show was kind of perfect to think about all the possibilities when you’re trapped somewhere and can’t get out. A particular standout for me was David Ogden Stiers (you know him as Cogsworth in the original Beauty and the Beast) as the pompous Charles Emerson Winchester the Third. Set during a seemingly endless Korean War, Alan Alda did his best to make this show as great as it was, along with his fellow cast members. This is a truly revolutionary comedy from the 70s/80s which still hits hard today. I started with season 4, but I’ll go back and watch seasons 1-3 eventually. Hot Mash Summer rise! A bunch of people got really into MASH this summer on Tumblr, and I must report I was one of them. The first four seasons are the best, but the last three have their moments. There’s a lot of parallels between Selina Meyer’s chaos and our current political landscape, but they lay on so much humor and rapid-fire jokes that you often forget that you’re watching a bunch of politicos and politicians ruin the government. Because it serves as a reminder that for all that things are hell, they can at least be funny. Veep, a comfort show, really? Now? Well, yes.
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