Struggling against finding true love, Casey McCall and Dan Rydell, a couple of best friends, who work together in a famous sports program and achieve a great success, do their best to have a good life. The first season opens with Caesy struggles against his divorce.
Sorkin turns off the speechifying by acknowledging that at the end of the day, these are people at work, and their lives will go on with the trivial personal concerns that define their relationship much more than their political beliefs.