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West Wing: The Complete Second Season (DVD) It's never politics as usual inside this Oval Office. The President and his staff have been targeted for disruption by rival politicians, soon after being targeted by would-be assassins. Yet the determined colleagues continue to serve the U.S. and its President as the administration heads through midterm elections and into a crisis that leads to allegations of criminal conduct. The West Wing's second season won the Best Drama Series Emmy and Golden Globe Awards.
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- Aspect Ratio : 1.66:1
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : NR (Not Rated)
- Product Dimensions : 7.75 x 7 x 1.25 inches; 12.8 Ounces
- Item model number : 49852982
- Director : Thomas Schlamme, Chris Misiano
- Media Format : Multiple Formats, Anamorphic, Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
- Run time : 16 hours and 30 minutes
- Release date : August 28, 2007
- Actors : Martin Sheen, Bradley Whitford
- Subtitles: : English, Spanish, French
- Language : English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), Unqualified
- Studio : WarnerBrothers
- ASIN : B0001HAGQK
- Number of discs : 4
- Best Sellers Rank: #11,199 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #1,858 in Drama DVDs
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Being a would-be screenwriter, I am always looking for ways to improve my scripts, so I have been watching various TV shows over the last few months. In the last few weeks I have rediscovered 'The West Wing,' a show about a fictional President of the United States, Jeb Bartlett, played by Martin Sheen.
I have watched the season in order, so as not to break continuity, and I reached the end of season 2 just yesterday.
Before I continue, a bit of background on the series might be useful. President Bartlett has MS, but has hidden it from the public. Up until the second to last show of season 2, only 16 other people knew about his condition, including his doctor wife, who had been treating him. He had made a deal with her that he would only serve one term as president.
Now, as we come to the end of season two, his secret is about to come out, and he faces a choice of whether to run again and face the ire of not only his wife, but likely the Republicans and his own party. Not to mention the fact that he or his wife could face perjury charges because of mistakes made along the way, and impeachment too.
Into all this drama, we have a hostage situation in a foreign country. It is an extremely tense time and the drama is palpable.
Then, at the end of the second to last episode, the president's secretary, Mrs. Lanningham, is killed by a drunk driver.
My first thoughts on hearing that was 'WTF?' What on earth would make writers kill off a sweet old lady like that just as the drama of everything else was reaching a climax? I mean, really?!
As a writer I couldn't see the point of killing off a character like that. So it was with a degree of indignation that I watched the next episode, 'Two Cathedrals.' By the end of that episode, hell, even a quarter of the way through it, I was in tears. It takes a lot to make me cry.
We see Jeb at Mrs. Lanningham's funeral, and after it's over, he asks for some time alone in the cathedral, where he blames God and his lying about MS for her death and for everything else that has gone wrong. Then he tells God he can have the Vice President as the next candidate and leaves.
A tropical storm is now showering rain, lightning and thunder on the Capitol. President Bartlett asks one of his aides if this was unusual for May, and was told it had never happened before. He adds this to his list of things he blames God for, and when he is left alone in the Oval Office, the windows fly open suddenly and it storms and rains. He calls for Mrs. Lanningham out of habit and there she is.
She chastises him for blaming God for her death and tells him if he wants to blame anyone but himself for his problems, and the choice he has to make, then she doesn't want to know him. Then she's gone and the president is soaked.
He now goes before a press conference to discuss his disease and of course, the first question asked is 'are you going to run again?' He pauses, asks to repeat the question and then puts his hands in his pocket, having made up his mind, and then the camera fades.
Now, as I said, through most of this episode I was in tears, and since I was in the library at the time, I must have looked and sounded strange, but I couldn't help myself.
That was the single best episode of any program that I have ever seen, and all it cost was the life of a minor character.
I have to wonder, in whatever writing I do in the future, could I do that? Could I kill off someone small and unimportant to set up the best writing I could do?
I just don't know.
When one considers that shows such as "According to Jim", and "CSI:Miami" made it far past WW's seven seasons, I believe we are in the "plastic" age of television, and I'm not referring only to all the breast implants on so many popular shows, although, now that I think about it, that's a pretty decent comparison.
The West Wing offered an insight, albeit, slightly biased, on how our government SHOULD work, and how real people DO work in the White House, every day, just as they are as I write this piece. During President Clinton's time in the White House, Aaron Sorkin, the creator of WW, was given complete access to the White House in order to replicate authentic sets back in Hollywood/ I felt I truly was in the White House residence, Situation Room, Roosevelt Room, the White House Press Room, etc.
Sorkin created the "walk and talk", so common now, but unprecedented in 1999, characters actually talked while they were walking - presumbably, they had PLACES TO GO. These were the President's closest aides, after all, and there was no time to waste. Sometimes, the talks were funny, sardonic, many were about serious stuff, as one would expect of "stuff" going on in the West Wing of the White House.
The superlative ensemble cast, which stayed almost intact (except for the unwise departure of Rob Lowe after season four - does anyone remember "The Lion's Den"?), for seven years, worked hard, loved their country, and felt they were doing a great good. And they were doing television a great deal of good, simply by showing up, and speaking the lines in Aaron Sorkin's brilliant screenplays on a weekly basis.
I wish I could say the same for the lawmakers of today. I must admit, that for the last two presidential election years (2008 and 2012), I have gotten out my "West Wing" boxed set, watching what government COULD be. I am too sad for my beloved country to watch the "real thing" unfold.
Of course, there were episodes that were "lesser than", but, I will be forever, and collectively, grateful to actors Martin Sheen, the late John Spenser, Allison Janney, Rob Lowe, Bradley Whitford, Richard Schiff, Stockard Channing, Janel Maloney, Dule Hill, and others who rotated in and out, until Jimmy Smits was tapped to replace President Josiah Bartley (Sheen) after eight years of duty.
To those who have never seen the West Wing, you may think I am waxing way too rhapsodic. I think not. Aaron Sorkin and the WW cast won many numerous Emmys during its short seven year tenure, and Mr. Sorkin went on to win an Academy Award for "The Social Network" in 2010. He now writes "The Newsroom" for HBO. "West Wing" it is not, however, I will take whatever crumbs Mr. Sorkin, Tommy Schlamme, et al, have left to offer me on what is now thrown up as "television".
Oh, if you DO decide to buy just one season, buy season two. It is worth it alone for the episodes, "The Fall's Gonna Kill You", "18th and Potomac", and Not at all last, "Two Cathedrals", which was hailed as one of the finest episodes of writing, cinemtography, sets, etc, in the HISTORY of television.
I kid you not. This was a "Golden" television series.
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The writing is superb, the pace is often frenetic as must the real-life scenario in the White House be, and the acting is sensational.
If you like political drama - this is the show for you !!
Buy the lot and indulge yourself - it is absolutely compulsive viewing and don't be surprsied to watch three of four episodes... or more in one sitting, it simply is THAT good !!






