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Article: `West Wing' is still a notch above.
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- San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, CA)
- Article date:
- November 1, 2004
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Byline: Charlie McCollum
Some flotsam and jetsam we found bobbing on the constantly churning sea of TV:
_This may constitute revisionist critical thinking but maybe we should give credit to the current incarnation of "The West Wing" for what it still does fairly well.
Sure, it's not "The West Wing" of the days when creator Aaron Sorkin was writing almost every word. Sorkin never would have let it drift into the kind of excessive melodrama (Leo McGarry's heart attack) that have marred key episodes since his departure. (Warning: Spoiler in next sentence.) While he might have come up with this Wednesday's (9 p.m., NBC) plot twist _ C.J. Cregg ...