Is The Candidate, in fact, the anti-West Wing? A political story that ends not with a bang, but with a question of existential dread.<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.bkmag.com/2016/07/19/the-candidate-interview/">Interview with screenwriter Jeremy Larner in Brooklyn Magazine</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cz1oJjtPLFQ">The trailer for Downhill Racer (1969)</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzfDTaGc5EU">Jerry Seinfeld on Letterman: "You're rooting for clothes."</a></li>
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An episode-by-episode discussion of The West Wing, one of television’s most beloved shows, co-hosted by one of its stars, Joshua Malina, along with Hrishikesh Hirway of Song Exploder. 