TV flags are flying at half-staff today, with the news that Matthew Perry died on Saturday.
The show’s continuing ubiquity makes Perry’s death more galling somehow — don’t certain stars achieve immortality through streaming and syndication?
Perry was not the kind of actor who disappeared into a role but rather where the role disappeared into him.
This is never more clear than in “The West Wing,” where Perry appears in three episodes as Joe Quincy, a clever lawyer.
His arc on “West Wing” aired right around the same time as the final few episodes of “Friends,” and it modeled the kind of role we’d frequently see him in after Chandler: a fascinating, intelligent, perhaps lovable adversary.
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