The Great West Wing Rewatch: 4.18 "Privateers"
Joel: It not really focused on much, but I love that this whole episode takes place over the course of a single day. We start the episode with the President being woken up, and end with him going back to bed that night. And everything in between is the mad dash and hubbub that goes on any given day at The White House. It reminds me of a season one episode in a lot of ways. We’ve recently had to go through lots of major stories that arch over several episodes. From the MS scandal, to the election, to the decision to assassinate a foreign leader and the ramifications of that decision, to then having to deal with an attempted genocide, some of the day to day aspects of the early episodes have fallen by the wayside. This episode has a bit of that old, familiar comfort. It’s nice to remind people that in the middle of all these big event stories we still have the day to day things, where compromises have to be made to get bills passed, sometimes awards have to be made up because...