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Nov 5, 2023 · While The West Wing is one of Aaron Sorkin’s most famous projects, not all of the political drama’s seven seasons achieved the same level of quality. Even the most acclaimed TV shows have to go through rough patches and The West Wing is no exception.
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Aug 10, 2023 · The West Wing ran for seven years and featured a star-studded cast. Which season is the show's best?
- Liam Gaughan
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6 days ago · When the cast of The West Wing reassembled in 2020 to shoot a stage performance of a single episode as part of a voting-rights benefit, this is the episode they chose, and with very good reason ...
6 days ago · “The West Wing,” which aired on NBC, was at heart a 20th-century broadcast network drama. It needed unambiguous good guys at its center, and it needed to give them wins.
- "The Supremes"
- "Twenty Five"
- "Let Bartlet Be Bartlet"
- "Dead Irish Writers"
- "Hartsfield's Landing"
- "Take This Sabbath Day"
- "20 Hours in America"
- "Bartlet For America"
- "Celestial Navigation"
- "Noel"
Season 5, Episode 17 Writer: Debora Cahn Director: Jessica Yu Undoubtedly, the last three seasons of The West Wing are inferior to the first four. The departure of creator/showrunner Aaron Sorkin—who wrote 85 of 88 episodes himself—was a huge blow to the series following Season 4, as was the exit of director/executive producer Thomas Schlamme. The ...
Season 4, Episode 23 Writer: Aaron Sorkin Director: Christopher Misiano I like to look at “Twenty Five” as a metaphor for Sorkin leaving The West Wing. Sorkin pictures himself as Bartlet. Zoe (the show) has been taken away, and Bartlet can no longer do what he feels must be done because he’s been compromised. His solution is to take his characters ...
Season 1, Episode 19 Writer: Aaron Sorkin Director: Laura Innes Season 1 of The West Wingis remarkably fleet-footed and self-aware to the point where I have to believe Sorkin knew he was building to this episode. Up until “Let Bartlet Be Bartlet” he had painted the Bartlet Administration as a collection of well-meaning people who couldn’t affect an...
Season 3, Episode 15 Writer: Aaron Sorkin Director: Alex Graves Aaron Sorkin has gotten a lot of flack in his career for his, shall we say “old fashioned” approach to female characters, but there are plenty of female characters in The West Wing that are portrayed with nuance and agency. Mary-Louise Parker’s Amy Gardner is a shining example of this,...
Season 3, Episode 14 Writer: Aaron Sorkin Director: Vincent Misiano By the middle of Season 3, it was clear that Sorkin was trying to give Rob Lowe more to do—to have an actor of his caliber playing a speechwriter was limiting to be sure, and some storylines worked better than others. However, “Hartsfield’s Landing” is a great showcase for both Low...
Season 1, Episode 14 Writer: Aaron Sorkin Director: Thomas Schlamme One of Sorkin’s strokes of genius in the first season of The West Wing was presenting a liberal president who was also devoutly religious. Barlet’s Catholicism is not just a side-note to his character, but a deeply important part of his life that influences a lot of the decisions h...
Season 4, Episodes 1 & 2 Writer: Aaron Sorkin Director: Christopher Misiano Sorkin’s stabs at two-parters were sometimes tremendous feasts, and “20 Hours in America” is a terrific blend of hilarious comedy, doubling down on the stakes of the Season 3 finale, and topical drama. Stranding Josh, Donna, and Toby in Indiana after being left by the motor...
Season 3, Episode 9 Writer: Aaron Sorkin Director: Thomas Schlamme I don’t know why I’m partial to flashback episodes. Perhaps it’s because they illustrate a side of a character we haven’t seen before, so showing their past helps inform their present. “Bartlet for America” takes us further back than we’ve ever been in The West Wingby showing Leo ap...
Season 1, Episode 15 Writer: Aaron Sorkin Director: Christopher Misiano Most shows wouldn’t take the structural chance “Celestial Navigation” offers in its first season. This is the kind of episode most shows come to in their second or third season once they have their footing and want to stretch their creative muscles. But Sorkin being Sorkin, he’...
Season 2, Episode 10 Writer: Aaron Sorkin Director: Thomas Schlamme Before The West Wing, I best knew Bradley Whitford as the villain from Billy Madison, and while he’s very funny in that role, he will now always be Josh Lyman. It’s a career-defining role, and while Josh more often than not got to play to the show’s comic moments during the Sorkin ...
Cutthroat presidential advisers get their personal lives hopelessly tangled up with professional duties as they try to conduct the business of running a country. Fictional Democratic President ...
The West Wing has been universally regarded among many publications as one of the greatest television shows of all time. [2][3][4][5][6][7][8] It has received praise from critics, political science professors, and former White House staffers and has been the subject of critical analysis.
