Amazon.co.uk Review
This box set containing the complete first three series of
The West Wing is available exclusively from Amazon.co.uk. Aaron Sorkin's American political drama
The West Wing, set in the White House, has won innumerable awards--and rightly so. Its depiction of a well-meaning Democrat administration has warmed the hearts of countless Americans. However,
The West Wing is more than mere feel-good viewing for sentimental patriots. It is among the best-written, sharpest, funniest and moving US TV series of all time. Martin Sheen leads a strong ensemble cast: his Jed Bartlet is such an impressively plausible fictional President that polls once expressed a preference for Bartlet over the genuine incumbent.
Handled incorrectly, The West Wing could have been turgid, didactic propaganda for The American Way. However, the writers are careful to show that, decent as this administration is, its achievements, though hard-won, are minimal. Moreover, the brisk, staccato-like, almost musical exchanges of dialogue, between Josh and his PA Donna, for instance, as they pace purposefully up and down the corridors are the show's abiding joy. --David Stubbs
DVD Description
Episodes - Series 1:
- Pilot
- Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc
- A Proportional Response
- Five Votes Down
- The Crackpots and These Women
- Mr. Willis of Ohio
- The State Dinner
- Enemies
- The Short List
- In Excelsis Deo
- Lord John Marbury
- He Shall, from Time to Time
- Take Out the Trash Day
- Take This Sabbath Day
- Celestial Navigation
- 20 Hours in L.A.
- The White House Pro-Am
- Six Meetings Before Lunch
- Let Bartlet Be Bartlet
- Mandatory Minimums
- Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics
- What Kind of Day Has It Been?
Episodes - Series 2:
- In the Shadow of Two Gunmen - Part 1
- In the Shadow of Two Gunmen - Part 2 / The Midterms
- In This White House
- And It's Surely to Their Credit
- The Lame Duck Congress
- The Portland Trip
- Shibboleth
- Galileo
- Noel
- The Leadership Breakfast
- The Drop In
- Bartlet's Third State of the Union
- The War at Home
- Ellie
- Somebody's Going to Emergency, Somebody's Going to Jail
- The Stackhouse Filibuster
- 17 People
- Bad Moon Rising
- The Fall's Gonna Kill You
- 18th and Potomac
- Two Cathedrals
Episodes - Series 3:
- Manchester (Part 1)
- Manchester (Part 2)
- Ways and Means
- On the Day Before
- War Crimes
- Gone Quiet
- The Indians in the Lobby
- The Women of Qumar
- Bartlet for America
- H. Con-172
- 100,000 Airplanes
- The Two Bartlets
- Night Five
- Hartsfield's Landing
- Dead Irish Writers
- The U.S. Poet Laureate
- Stirred
- Enemies Foreign and Domestic
- The Black Vera Wang
- We Killed Yamamoto
- Posse Comitatus
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