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.
29 July 1983, Azores, Portugal
4 August 1942, Aurora, Missouri, USA
22 July 1969, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
2 June 1968, Iran
23 June 1936, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
24 February 1947, Los Angeles, California, USA
27 August 1979, Lake Charles, Louisiana, USA
April1957, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, USA
21 December 1953, Red Bank, New Jersey, USA
2 October 1980, Oxford, Ohio, USA
19 July 1972, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
18 December 1989, Long Beach, California, USA
17 November 1951, Sarasota, Florida, USA
11 April 1951, New York, USA
15 September 1966, Pittsville, Wisconsin, USA
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 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.
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 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
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
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 26, 2018
The show enters its second season festooned with nine Emmys and - I speak from the heart - deserves another nine.
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.
