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The White House
2026 · TV series · 1 season
Created by Jim Greayer, Hereward Pelling
American history through the lens of its most iconic residence, transforming its four walls into a volatile stage where ambition, betrayal, romance, and rivalry collide behind closed doors.
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Movies get everything wrong. And that's OK. There's a word for movies that focus on factual accuracy. They're called documentaries, and most movies are (for good or ill) not documnentaries. Most movies are trying to tell a story. They need to provide just enough realism and familiarity to engage the audience's attention, but no more. It's called "suspension of disbelief" and it's everywhere. Hobbits aren't real. Superpowers aren't real. Incredible combat or hacking skills as shown in movies aren't real. The movie White House bears little resemblance to the real version. Romance doesn't work the same way in real life as it does in movies. And all of that is OK because the story's the thing.
What an article like this illustrates is not that movie-makers are stupid, but that some people are so unbelievably egocentric that they believe what matters to them should matter to everyone else. That what seems obvious to them should be obvious to everyone, and if it's not then that's sufficient justification to look down one's nose at them. Never mind that they themselves are ignorant of many things others might consider important. It's a narcissistic behavior, not among movie makers but among movie critics.