Is “The West Wing” being antagonistic on purpose?
Let me start by saying that I’m not a The West Wing
viewer. Mostly for historical reasons (Didn’t start to watch the first
season, didn’t have the time to catch up a little afterwards, was told
it’s not really worth it to catch up during the later seasons, and
don’t have the time to catch up on six whole seasons now). The reviews
I hear from people who watch it are that the latest is season is really
good, and on par with the first ones.
But they are making lots of noise in the media lately. It seems that hardly an episode goes by without someone getting insulted.
Early on December, they had an episode when they were dissing the hospital in Anchorage. And the mayor was greatly offended.
Last week they ran an episode saying some not-very-nice things about
the NASCAR races. And about the races’ fans. Which in turn got very upset.
And in the latest episode, they managed to rile the corn industry.
And I’m not sure why. If the latest season was bad, I’d believe
they’re desperately trying to get more viewers. But that’s not the
case…
Naturally most shows could easily manage to anger someone.
It’s easy to anger most people. But The West Wing is doing it best lately. I don’t follow The West Wing
on the news, and yet I heard about these. That’s more than for other
shows.
And it may be that Americans need to start taking
their entertainment TV shows a hell of a lot less seriously. And fast.
That would be another way to make everyone happier.
January 31st, 2005 at 18:38 EET | Categories: Marketing, Television |
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