TV time is a fun and relaxing way to be together in the evenings. Before pandemic time, we were watching
Parks & Rec, which was fun for everyone and entertained us for many evenings. One day on the drive to school (ah, driving to school...) Aaron said the show was getting him interested in government, and I thought... if you're going to get access to government through a TV show, I know which one it should be! We started watching
The West Wing, and wow, is it good. It is every bit as good as it was 20 years ago (!), and many of the issues are eerily unchanged... like gun control. The only area where it seems happily dated is LGBTQ rights. Some things get better. And there are many, many seasons, so we can watch it a lot.
We have also diverted into other shows here and there: we watched the last season of
The Good Place (terrific), introduced the kids to
Seinfeld (definitely counts as Jewish education in my book), and watched all the
Harry Potter movies in order. Right now we're watching
Apollo 13, and I have
Breaking Away and
20 Feet From Stardom on deck. But it's good to know we have
The West Wing to go back to whenever we want.
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