So I would consider myself well-versed on the content of the show, if not necessarily the acting. If you didn t see the season finale of The West Wing , stop reading now. There is little to no continuity from one week to the next. Huge, major crises appear one week, get settled by the end of the episode, and never get brought up again. A great deal of screen time is devoted to these fairly insignificant events that won t impact anything else, ever.
Characters appear and disappear.
There s never any rhyme or reason given to when the First Lady is going to shop up, except that when she does, she must fight with her husband. None of the President s children have been on screen in months. One of them was part of a major storyline for a year, and all of a sudden, she s gone. John Laroquette was on one episode. Rob Lowe is given first billing.