The Worst Wing

Stu & Dave
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An episode-by-episode breakdown of Aaron Sorkin's seminal work from a modern leftist perspective.

  1. S7E15 - Tomorrow Never Dies

    08/30/2023

    S7E15 - Tomorrow Never Dies

    It's been a long, slogging trail through this show and so we have The Last Episode for you here (spoiler it's bad). We also spend another 20 minutes or so musing poorly and waxing misunderstood philosophically about the impact of the show on the culture at large, on Aaron Sorkin himself, and on future projects. We will probably get back together to do an auxiliary ep on Studio 60, and then we might take another tack going forward that's a bit more relaxed and less... awful. Thank you for listening! It will all come back to you, in the ennnnnd.

    51 min
  2. S7E14 - The Last Hurrah for Memory

    08/07/2023

    S7E14 - The Last Hurrah for Memory

    As we close the show down, senioritis sets in not only amongst the outgoing administration, but among your intrepid hosts who spent most of the recording session crosstalking and stepping on each other's bits!! It's a fine thing to try to address the absolutely Kafkaesque disaster of being an incredibly powerful woman navigating a male-dominated industry. It's a bad thing to do so by setting her up with multiple Male Saviors and having her pick one! By contrast we do get funny glimpses of Helen Santos being pigeonholed into traditionally-female-coded roles at the White House and, if not explicitly pushing back on them, being absolutely bewildered by their necessity. I am working 11 to 7 and I think Dave's still on nights so we included another Dolly banger this time around.

    52 min
  3. S7E13 - Requiem for a Transition

    07/30/2023

    S7E13 - Requiem for a Transition

    OK now that the show has wrapped up, congrats to Matt Santos on being the new prez, time to wait what the f**k there's still 5 goddamn episodes left?? IT'S ALL SO STUPID. RIP to Sinead O'Connor, this one hit me hard for whatever reason https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbre5Fs9m8I

    54 min
  4. S7E12 - ELECTION DAY

    07/04/2023

    S7E12 - ELECTION DAY

    Hi, yeah, first time long time: does Bruno close the deal? This one's for the true sickos among us, full of polls Polls POLLS energy and quite a bit of hornt, as the election unfolds over 90 relatively harmless minutes of campaign staff interactions. Let the careerist jockeying... BEGIN Music from A.C. Newman.

    46 min
  5. S7E11 - Two Weeks Out You Are

    06/19/2023

    S7E11 - Two Weeks Out You Are

    I am so ready for this to be over. If only WE were two weeks out, rather than... 7 more episodes so let's call it four more recording sessions that will probably land between now and October for a nice round 5 year experience. Please, listener, spare yourself and do not watch these episodes. Music is from Keb Mo

    45 min
  6. S7E10 - Duck The Cold

    05/29/2023

    S7E10 - Duck The Cold

    Come bother me about end-to-end emissions and material processing eCO2 incursions if u wanna get wrecked about nuclear power. So sorry there hasn't been a miraculously ~*mArKEt baSeD sOLuTioN*~ to getting perovskites into every PV cell somehow! We coulda been casting containment buildings for gen3 reactors and trebling down on thorium reprocessing technology for the last 20 years instead of using that concrete to pave over swamps and enable more cars to exist or... I dunno f*****g turning OTHER ELECTRICITY into BITCOIN. F**k me, but also just turn your brain off and watch this first episode because it's paced and shot well. And then don't bother with the second one, it's snooze-worthy to the max. Something about great power cold-warrior-brain conventional warfare? Lol. Nukes good f**k you eminent domain Yucca Mountain and let me design the mitigation system!! I'll do it for a sixer of PBR and a bowl of ramen. I've never heard this paul simon song before!

    51 min
  7. S7E9 - Running Mates & Something ELse idk whatever

    05/10/2023

    S7E9 - Running Mates & Something ELse idk whatever

    Welcome back to more campaign shit that I don't give a f**k about!! With a side helping of "whoa hang on there's still an entire administration in the White House currently?? uh... let's do... World War!" The first episode starts with a direct-to-camera tribute to John Spencer from Martin Sheen. So, we're closing down the arc of Leo being alive IRL. But... not yet! He's still kicking in the show's world!! These episodes are dogshit from a butt and don't warrant much more discussion than what we ramble through in the proceeding *checks* too many minutes. Matt Santos goes home and get scandaled. Then Kate and CJ do a major international thing. Danny exists and CJ is a jerk both to him and to a waitress. I will now sell four copies of The Three EPs by the Beta Band, because I went the kind route with the transition instead of quadrupling down on the Sisqo option.

    50 min
  8. S7E8 - Undecided The Wedding

    04/24/2023

    S7E8 - Undecided The Wedding

    These episodes are a slog and a half so we're back to throwing two together at one go, and conveniently, these tidy up the Ellie Bartlet Wedding arc which is tropeish and irritating! We solve racism with a speech, surprise! A nice soothing authoritative President Dad approach to a(nother) World War 3 type situation which is not communicated to the viewer as serious because there is far, FAR too much other garbage going on. Inching closer to the finish line here.

    47 min
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An episode-by-episode breakdown of Aaron Sorkin's seminal work from a modern leftist perspective.

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  • Creator
    Stu & Dave
  • Years Active
    2019 - 2023
  • Episodes
    136
  • Rating
    Explicit
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