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The West Wing

Kate Harper: You wanted to see me?
Leo McGarry: Yeah, with Nancy McNally out of the country you're gonne have to be our go to - I was gonna say guy, the problem with English - guy's wrong, gal is patronizing, and person sounds arch ...
Kate Harper: Go to guy's fine ...
Leo McGarry: Good, 'cause you're it ...

Some will find it typical for me to read this particular article, but Gesetz der Serie in Der Standard was the incentive to spawn interest in my latest TV series affliction, The West Wing, a grasping story about a fictional democratic USA president and his closest advisors, from which above excerpt stems. It is not only, as noted in the article and awarded with Emmys, a staccato of brilliant dialogue and bold camera movements in cramped office space, but also an interesting insight into how part of the executive branch of the US-American government works, and it has the hundreds of subplots that make it a great show. The above snippet shows only a small example of the many ways thought about PC occurs throughout the show (a more prominent example would be the latent pro-choice politics president Bartlett is exercising, or the Josh - Amy subplot, ...) - it's certainly safe to say that the liberal attitude of the show has polarized it's viewers, and, as the media directors put it in The Black Vera Wang, "We'll show the acceptance speeches. And the balloons. The balloons aren't news but it's nice television."