This seems more like a black (and hetero) Thelma and Louise, in terms of the premise.

While there Segal was also friends with (and modeled a minor character in the novel after) future Canadian Governor General David Johnston.  Networking!

Francis Lai’s soft-focus piano music adds to that effect, lending a dreamy, out-of-time feeling to just about every interaction. (Love Story was nominated for seven Oscars, including most of the big ones, but Lai was the only winner. He deserved it.

Gore was a liberal throughout his political career (it’s hilarious, looking back, that he represented parts of Tennessee that are dyed-in-wool GOP now).

Ahem, it’s stated several times that the characters are in sixth grade.  I hope someone gets fired for that blunder.

As I said, there were definitely a good number of reasonable opponents on the show (though Alda’s character, who postdated Sorkin’s time on the show, was implausible as a GOP presidential nominee even at the time).

Straining to make the country a better place was pretty much all the Bartlet Administration ever did (though in the period when Sorkin wrote it, one of the more realistic elements was the general legislative gridlock; Sorkin mostly resisted having his characters easily solve the country’s problems).

The West Wing already offered an almost idealized depiction of government when it debuted in 1999—not a bigotry-free utopia, of course, but a world in which our representatives occasionally fought back instead of constantly wringing their hands about civility.

If The Sopranos was the harbinger of the premium cable revolution in dramatic storytelling, The West Wing is the counterpoint from the traditional TV primetime drama establishment. I think it may be the last such network drama to really hold sway over what was seen as quality TV, even as it co-existed with The Sopranos…

While the labels certainly made mistakes, I don’t think anything they could have done would have altered the fact that large numbers of consumers were ready to illegally download rather than pay for product.

Like the fact that Anakin was already a great pilot when Obi-Wan met him. While technically true in the prequels, I doubt the original line meant he was good at driving racing cars as a 9 year old.

I also really liked that they found a way to include a bunch of the actresses who have played the young Jane over the years in the finale, most notably Jenny Ortega, who contributed a lot to the show’s early seasons. Ortega posted about that scene​​​​​​​ on Instagram.

The book evidently sold well enough to be turned into a TV show eventually.

The big family wedding photo sequence at the end was wonderful, what with more people being progressively added and having little moments, which also really drove home how wild the extended clan really is when you break down all the relations there. In the final version of the photo you have:
1. Jane

I don’t think anything will ever pass The Simpsons for me in terms of importance and impact. Jane the Virgin is definitely among my favourites, along with shows like Mad Men and The West Wing.

Very few shows debut as fully formed as Jane the Virgin did — if you go back to the pilot, with the exception of Petra every character is already recognizably themselves even from five years’ vantage (Rogelio, of course, is hardly in the pilot, but he also, on appearing, is more or less as he would be throughout). The…

I thought the very ending was an interesting variation/reflection on Tarantino’s past films about righting historical wrongs. Inglourious Basterds’ ending was a gleeful triumph over Hitler; here, the defeat of the Manson family is tremendously entertaining, but when Rick goes up to meet Sharon, the expertly-timed…

Onscreen, nothing.  Brad Pitt’s character knows about the Manson Family, so probably somebody will be sent to check out the Spahn ranch, but that’s all left up in the air.

The movie’s use of Simon & Garfunkel’s music is vaguely revolutionary; most Hollywood directors had not yet figured out how current pop music could enrich their stories.

Mrs. Coach isn’t stupid.