On the Lasting Impact of The West Wing
Happy birthday, Aaron Sorkin, and thank you for everything
8 min readJun 10, 2020
For Sarah McConnell, it started like this: living in Japan more than a decade ago, she was desperate for something in English to watch. Anything. It so happened that the something she found lying around her apartment was a set of West Wing DVDs. A few moments in, she hit pause: “did you see how long…