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The West Wing, Season 1, Episode 14 (Patreon)

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2023-01-11 11:20:00
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Hey! This is our second episode this week as we add additional episodes for Patreon subscribers. Two more to come!

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The West Wing, Season 1, Episode 14

Capital Punishment or State-Sponsored Murder?

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Weird Magic

Originally airing on February 9, 2000, ""Take This Sabbath Day"" is Episode 14 of Season 1 of The West Wing. It is the 14th episode overall and has an IMDB rating of 8.8, placing it as the #5 ranked episode of this season and #21 out of all 155 episodes.

Laura Dawson

What a treat to have 2 WW reactions to watch back to back, thanks guys! Such an interesting episode too. Being from the UK, I find it particularly interesting for a couple of reasons. First, the debate on the death penalty itself. To all intents and purposes the death penalty was abolished here in the 1960s, so it’s interesting to hear for and against arguments I don’t really hear over here. Second, the prevalence of religious discussion that takes place in the episode. Religion just doesn’t come up much in political discussions in the UK, but in the US they seem to go hand in hand. In fact, a while back the leader of the Liberal Democrat party had to resign after saying that he allowed his religious views to influence how he voted on issues. It’s just not seen as appropriate here. So, the President being advised by the Pope and discussing scripture with Toby makes me feel a bit uncomfortable. Such interesting dialogue though, and so well written and acted! I do love this episode, and I enjoyed your comments. I also really like the sparring between Josh and Joey Lucas - and boy did we need some humour to lighten things up a bit!

Youtalkingtome
>>99385917

Agreed about the presence of Joey Lucas and Josh. It was otherwise a very serious episode. The death penalty is much less prevalent now than it used to be in the US, but one state (Texas) uses it more often than the entire rest of the country combined. Really controversial here.

JVTrickypants

I've been re-re-re-(x10)-watching The Sopranos and am in the Richie Aprile episodes right now, so a VERY hard mental u-turn seeing David Proval in this role I've also seen dozens of times. He's so damn good.

JVTrickypants

Not that they haven't been doing it all season, but THAT is how you make a very tricky topic into a compelling, intelligent, funny even, and compassionate television show.

Sunkrish Bala

After asking him if he prefers "Jed" or "Mr President," and Bartlet saying he prefers "Mr President" to distance himself from the decisions the office has to make... Father Cavanaugh insists on calling him "Jed" at the end when he asks him to confess..... he's not letting Bartlet hide behind the office.

Sunkrish Bala
>>99423818

Also: fun fact.. Karl Malden brought the same bible he used in On the Waterfront to film that scene.

shawn Johnson

This is amazing! I love watching you guys see entire episodes! I have done this with so many friends who have never seen the show, and they can't stop watching it over and over again!

Roland Cooke

Texas performed its first execution of the year this week. :(

sandrinegeller

Love that you are doing more episodes a week!

Noah

The Josh/Joey Lucas scenes in this are some of my favorite comedy bits from the show. When he spits (dribbles?) the coffee onto his shirt I laugh every time.

Taylor

I was Catholic as a kid, and we were told that story of the man drowning. I’m no longer religious, but that story has always stuck with me as a lesson during tough times. What has always gotten me about this episode is that when you watch it for the first time, it’s easy to hold on to some hope right to the end that they’ll stay the execution. They’re a democratic administration, all liberal people, and most of them are so against it that it would make sense for the show to have them make the call in those final minutes. But they don’t. And the true emotion displayed in the immediate aftermath is part of what makes this show so great.

Sarah P
>>99444192

Hearting this felt wrong given the context, so I’ll just say thanks for giving a really relevant, important, depressing fact.

Sarah P

Shoutout to Allison Janney for the “I wish I didn’t know his mother’s name” scene. I agree, like you said, that that script was good — BUT the weight that she gave it was CRAZY. This prestige cast is almost hard to deal with at times. Also shoutout to Toby for actually going into the Oval Office and saying his peace. Toby and Jed’s relationship is one of my favorite in the series!

Youtalkingtome
>>99506791

Yeah, it was rough that politics ended up winning out over what the people in power thought was right.

Luca Siracusa (Bob)

"He sent you a priest, a rabbi, and a Quaker, Mr. President. Not to mention his son, Jesus Christ. What do you want from him?" I understand people that prefer Toby, CJ, Josh or Leo. But, we have to just admit that every time Martin Sheen portrays Jed on screen he's far above everyone else. He's the perfect actor for the perfect role. He gets the most difficult scenes, the most difficult and impossible emotions to portray. He's the center of the world, literally, but it's this black hole that just destroys you. Martin Sheen is a blessing God sent us to witness art on screen