EPISODE
SEASON
The West Wing - Season 2
Season 2 opens with the President being rushed to hospital following a shooting; staffers field questions on protection measures and executive authority. Flashbacks show how key staff members joined the Bartlet campaign.
27 October 1943, Sharon, Pennsylvania, USA
20 August 1974, Vicenza, Veneto, Italy
16 October 1977, Douglasville, Georgia, USA
22 November 1972, Show Low, Arizona, USA
5 April 1964, Pasadena, California, USA
7 July 1939, Portland, Oregon, USA
17 May 1941, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
June 26, 2018
When it comes down to the wire, Season Two possesses a mythical element that gives it an edge, and it brims with an energy and verve [that] burned brighter than at any other time in the show's seven-year run.
June 26, 2018
Sustained exposure to the logic of the show's plot conventions, the jittery policy patter of its characters, and (perhaps most of all) its sonorous faux nobility inspires a singular distrust.
June 26, 2018
The stakes are some of the highest they've ever been on this show; the screen about to burst with palpable dread, those earlier small moments hanging in the air.
June 26, 2018
But now that we have a Republican president... The West Wing has been just as entertaining but strangely out of step with the real world. It no longer seems relevant.
June 27, 2018
It hands us a White House out of a Capra movie, with a folksy, avuncular president whose wisdom appears to be limitless... The West Wing, now in its second year, is nonetheless don't-miss TV.
June 26, 2018
Remember Ainsley Hayes?... She disappeared - banished to her basement office, no doubt, so that she wouldn't get in the way of The West Wing's myopic, melodramatic self-righteousness, which seems to deepen with each passing week.
June 26, 2018
The show enters its second season festooned with nine Emmys and - I speak from the heart - deserves another nine.
June 27, 2018
Season two had Ainsley Hayes, "Two Cathedrals," "The Stackhouse Filibuster," "17 People," Bartlett's MS, and Mrs. Landingham. There will be no questions.
June 27, 2018
The West Wing seems to have been taking a long, slow, self congratulatory victory lap, coasting on the admittedly considerable charms and talents of its superb cast but essentially sleeping at the wheel.