Wednesday, February 9, 2005

NEXT, JOE MANTEGNA TO PLAY ANTONIN SCALIA: OK, can someone explain why, on tonight's "West Wing," a show that's taken pride in completely making stuff up ("The Republic of Equatorial Kundu?" "The Republic of Qumar?" "The Women's Leadership Coalition?"), we decide to go meta-real tonight, not just with a main plotline that's "ripped from the headlines!," but with an appearance by "Prof. Larry Lessig," who's, bizarrely, not played by Prof. Lessig, but by Christopher Lloyd. Yes, Doc Brown played Prof. Lessig.

The episode was more than a bit disjointed, with the Lessig plotline and a comic relief plotline involving a visit by Miss World not fitting with the main foreign policy plotline. And it's February in D.C., and nary a mention of who's up and who's down in the primaries? No mention of who won New Hampshire or Iowa? C'mon! Bonus points, however, for finding a way for Kristin Chenoweth to sing in character without it seeming entirely gratuitious.

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