EPISODE
SEASON
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.
25 April 1947, Buffalo, New York, USA
14 April 1980, San Francisco, California, USA
21 December 1953, Red Bank, New Jersey, USA
24 August 1965, Morton Grove, Illinois, USA
11 May 1987, Wichita, Kansas, USA
30 October 1989, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
18 January 1938, Houston, Texas, USA
7 February 1973, Chicago, Illinois, USA
5 May 1944, Aberystwyth, Wales, UK
21 April 1954, Bountiful, Utah, USA
19 December 1949, Fullerton, California, USA
8 April 1957, Los Angeles, California, USA
18 August 1954, USA
6 March 1982, Albany, New York, USA
13 April 1952, Darjeeling, West Bengal, India
12 February 1972, Evanston, Illinois, USA
20 June 1923, New York City, New York, USA
2 April 1972, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
9 February 1979, Schenectady, New York, USA
20 February 1966, Brooklyn, New York, USA
8 December 1946, Los Angeles, California, USA
30 January 1966, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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.
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
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 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 26, 2018
The show enters its second season festooned with nine Emmys and - I speak from the heart - deserves another nine.
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
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.
