Wednesday January 12, 2000
225911
Bartlet collapses before his second State of the Union address; Leo publicly admits to his former alcoholism and drug abuse; things get interesting romantically for both Sam and C.J.; Lord John Marbury helps the staff negotiate an agreement between India and Pakistan.
Write a Recap »The plot thickens! Great development of characters and some of their relationships. hide show
This is the first episode that really develops the relationship between the President and First Lady. We see how much they love one another, and how much Abbey worries about her husband. The bond between them is very strong.
I also love the scenes where Leo finds out about Jed's MS from Abbey, it shows that not only are Jed and Leo close, but so is Leo and Abbey, and as demonstrated at the very beginning of that scene, apparently so is Abbey and Leo's daughter Mallory. So when Leo goes to Jed about what he knows, we also see how close Leo and Jed really are, even though we've seen peeks into this before, they're conversation really grounds in further that concept. When Jed says how proud he was of Leo for standing up at a press conference to admit of his alcohol and drug addiction and when Leo says that when he was lying on his face in the motel parking lot and Jed was the one he called, we really see not just how far back their friendship goes, but how deep and meaningful it really is.
We also see how far Josh and Sam are willing to go to stand behind Leo in this episode. All this put together gives us further detail of how close this group of people really are, like family, and in many ways, I believe this core bond is what makes the show what it is in many ways.
Altogether great episode!
Good Episode of the series. hide show
In the 12th episode of the hit TV show The West Wing. Titled He Shall, from Time to Time. President Bartlet collapses just before his second state of the union address. Chief of staff Leo Publicly admits his former addiction to alcoholic and drugs. Meanwhile The West Wind staff and Lord John Marbury tries negotiate a peace agreement Pakistan and India who are having a conflict. Overall I liked this episode when we see that Bartlet has MS which is a big turn for the TV show that and all of the story lines of the episode where very good this is one of my favorite episodes of The West Wing my overall rating of this episode is 10 out of 10.
"It may not be the worst day of their life, but one of the top five. hide show
Leo affair gets out and he does not want any help from others but Josh and Sam feel they own Leo that. Leo is mad about that but her daughter is thankful to Sam and it seems there is something working out between those two.
President is first feeling not well and laughing about the typos they have made in his speech. Then not much later, he collapse. His wife quickly returns and that makes Leo suspicious who wants to find out what is really the problem and the discovery - it is not the easy one. Everyone has secrets.
Lord John Marbury is again here, trying to settle down Pakistan and Inda thing and somehow they manage to walk out a deal.
Quite avarage but this episode has a sparkle.
These are the opening words of the passage in the executive powers section of the Constitution which deals with the State of the Union address. [edit]
RoxieVelma
Editor
Yakira
Retired
GeorgeFergus
danawhitaker
tvfa
