Five Big Award-Winning TV Shows That Are 100-Percent Worth Your Time and Attention – Concrete Playground

The West Wing first premiered in 1999, while Bill Clinton was president and over a year before George W Bush was elected. But when the latter happened, the acclaimed series inspired a strong and pervasive feeling — because every fan wished that Martin Sheen’s President Jed Bartlet was really the commander in chief. That response wasn’t just a case of escapism. It reflected The West Wing‘s top-notch writing and its passion. Unsurprisingly, even though the show wrapped up in 2006, that sentiment has echoed again throughout the past four years.

In 2020, in fact, original cast members including Sheen, Rob Lowe, Dulé Hill, Allison Janney, Richard Schiff, Bradley Whitford and Janel Moloney reunited in the lead up to the election for…