The West Wing

Episodes

Air info: NBC; Wednesday, 9pm.

Premise:

A view into the inner workings of the West Wing of the White House, staffers' lives, the presidency, politics, Capitol Hill, war, and how badass Martin Sheen is.

I have stopped synopsizing TWW as of the middle of season 5. The show is still great, but it no longer inspires the level of passion necessary to sustain synopsizing.

Who's Important?

Josiah Bartlet (Martin Sheen)	Mr. President. 'Nuff said.
Leo McGarry (John Spencer)	White House Chief of Staff
Josh Lyman (Bradley Whitford)	Deputy Chief of Staff
Toby Ziegler (Richard Schiff)	Communications Director
CJ Cregg (Allison Janney)	Press Secretary
Sam Seaborn (Rob Lowe)	Deputy Communications Director (1999-2003)
Will Bailey (Joshua Malina)	Communications Director for the Vice President
Charlie Young (Dule Hill)	Aide to the President

President Bartlet's Administration is entering Year 4 of its first term in office. They're actively campaigning against Republican candidate Gov. Ritchie, who Bartlet privately (and, unfortunately for him, occasionally publicly) believes to be dumb as a post. In their first three years in office, they survived an assassination attempt (President and Josh both shot, Josh critically, when white supremacists tried to kill Charlie for dating the President's daughter); a scandal involving the President's MS; and the first rounds of their re-election campaign.

Honestly, my favorite show on television and the most likely to be regularly updated even if all the rest of these synopses fade into obscurity (complete, as opposed to their current relative).

Episodes:

4.1 “20 Hours in America” [synopsis]
4.2 “College Kids” [synopsis]
4.3 “The Red Mass” [synopsis]
4.4 “Debate Camp” [synopsis]
4.5 “Game On” [synopsis]
4.6 “Election Night” [synopsis]
4.7 “Process Stories” [synopsis]
4.8 [synopsis]
4.9 “Arctic Radar” [synopsis]
4.10 “Holy Night” [synopsis]
4.11 “Guns not Butter” [synopsis]
4.13 “The Long Goodbye” [synopsis]

5.1 “7A WF 83429” [synopsis]
5.2 “The Dogs of War” [synopsis]
5.3 “Jefferson Lives” [synopsis]
5.4 “Han” [synopsis]
5.5 “Constituency of One” [synopsis]