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Laying a new law down. If this appears on your feed, you have to watch it! This way we can all start holding writers and directors to higher, respectable standards!

Probably the best description of addiction in popular culture.

It comes down to admitting you can't something. It's more powerful than you in a one on one fight. That is much tougher than most people think.

It's okay to not be an alcoholic like Leo. I know I wont drink today or tomorrow, but I'm still an alcoholic. You don't have to need meetings and be in the gutter to change.

This clip has helped me understand a lot about my own addiction problems. I could give a dozen reasons why I drink but mostly, I just drink because I can - and that's how I know I'm an alcoholic.

6 years sober... Thanks Leo

Pot and beer 2 or 3 nights per week

Pot and beer 2 or 3 nights per week

I can t stop watching this

That was why Leo, and John were loved.

John Spencer should still be getting awards for his performance in this role.

Sobriety isn't just NOT drinking or getting high, it's the recognition of what you did while drinking or high, and acceptance of responsibility for your own life. He knew that based on her experience, blowing the whistle was a brave attempt to serve her country, done in ignorance, but an understandable ignorance... you can't blame her for not knowing what most of the country also doesn't know. Top notch writing.

Welcome to 4:51 of the most unrealistic scene in TV history

I understand that so perfectly being there "I dont want one, I want 10 drinks" 🥺

I jump between this scene and doug stamper’s in house of cards. Brilliant scenes about alcoholism.

Sam will not be happy about this.

I've been sober 20.5 years and I still won't let myself have a drink, although if someone asked me what would happen if I did I'd be a little more blunt: "I'd get drunk!" Of course, the follow-up is, "Then I'd sober up, be incredibly hungover because I have zero tolerance now, and be REALLY pissed off at myself for having to restart my clock."

This is far and away the best description of an alcoholic

@BertKreischer needs to watch this on repeat @ 2:10

Awesome ❤ I show this to my college addiction students They are very thankful for this fine example of Truth. Thank you💥 Professor Walt

The problem is I don't want a drink. I want ten drinks. This speaks.

You don't get it unless you're in it.

Isn't Leo lying when he says he hasn't had a drink in 6 and a half years? Because there's a flashback during the campaign when Bartlett has an attack, Leo was in his room meeting with donors drinking Scotch. Perhaps just an oversight by the writers?

Just because what she did was brave doesn’t mean she still shouldn’t be fired. What she did might’ve actually been a crime.

Little bit of light hearted humour: Woman took it upon herself to decide what was right for the country with total entitlement without thinking of the damage it would do across the board… And Sorkin named her Karen… Ahead of his time 😂

This scene is one of the many reasons i loved the character of Leo. She did it because her father was a drunk and made mistakes she lived through them. She thought Leo was like her dad but that Leo had an important job. She was doing it for the right reasons not to cause problems. Its a reason not an excuse. She has her job back but much like did she has to earn peoples trust again.

At 3:50 after “… a little bit brave” the music starts in the background. So many of the great scenes of this series had such beautiful musical backgrounds.

Rewatching this every day before I go to rehab, Leo give me strength

Tears rolling down my face. Why don't they make good things like this now?

Swap drink for coke And this scene speaks volumes. If I had a big enough bag of coke I’d sit and so nothing but coke, no eating, drinking or sleeping. I’d keep doing it until the bag runs out or until I die. I don’t want to die, especially not from OD. However I know I’ll still sniff the bag until I die. Leo says it’s very hard to understand, it’s also very hard to explain.

When measured against American politics in 2023, the simple, genuine human decency of this series renders it so incomprehensible that today this episode from the turn of the 21st century is more akin to science fiction than drama. Yes, I realize that was a ridiculously long sentence.

such a great scene

Thanks, these are some good reminders, there’s no question that increasing your mental clarity and boosting your drive, comes with quitting. Yes, there are many ways to kick the habit, Steffon Barkload's Quit Drinking Forever is what worked for me, best shortcut I go’ogled that took days without withdrawal.

Thanks, these are some good reminders, there’s no question that increasing your mental clarity and boosting your drive, comes with quitting. Yes, there are many ways to kick the habit, Steffon Barkload's Quit Drinking Forever is what worked for me, best shortcut I go’ogled that took days without withdrawal.

“Are things that bad” “…No.” Those two lines of dialogue encompass everything about what it feels like to be an alcoholic.

This is a complete farce, and would never happen in the real world, which is why I love it so much!

I am a drug addict and alcoholic and still can't understand this so sickness

I dunno...seems Freudian/circular to me. That's like asking "why did you kill that guy?" and responding with "Because I'm a murderer." Is that really an acceptable answer?

As a fellow alcoholic, and AA member, I find this superb. Leo describes our illness perfectly, we can't drink because we're alcoholics. Excellent writing (yet again) Mr Sorkin. I use an analogy to someone with a nut allergy, they can't eat Snickers bars however it's even worse than that. Can you imagine someone with a nut allergy who after one Snickers bar wants another, then another, then another, then another... That when they aren't eating Snickers bars they are planning when they can get their next Snickers bar. The people around them know what Snickers bars do to the person with nut allergy so they hide their consumption and lie about their consumption.

Empathy and humanity, something the GQP can never grasp.

Why isn't she doing more work? This dramatically different character than Paris Geller, incredibly performed, should get her any gig she wanted

ahh yes Sorkin's clarinet of liberalism really tie a scene together.

The best part of this scene is that Leo's like "let's give each other a second chance" and she's like "Yes sir" and we NEVER see her again lol

The compassion strikes me every time...TRUMPERS...this is what a strong person looks like. Not a name-calling, boastful idiot...but a compassionate, centered, empowered soul.

I remember another scene where Leo was talking about drinking and kind of explaining how it wasn't all about the actual drinking part but the atmosphere, holding the glass, hearing the ice clink, those type of things.

I will aways wonder why we lose such outstanding people, people from all backgrounds much too early in life, John Spencer is one of those who left much too soon.

That was so nice.

Big mistake; she has proven herself untrustworthy. Just because you have a brief moment together you think she will change? Big mistake ....

That's the great Liza Weil playing the girl who got fired. She went on to starring roles on Gilmore Girls and How to Get Away with Murder.

I understand where the character Karen Larsen is coming from. My mother was an alcoholic and drug addict that caused incredible pain and suffering to the family. Even though today is my 75th birthday it is something that still effects me. It takes a great effort for me to give a person suffering substance abuse whether recovered or otherwise a second chance. It allows me to realize that we all have unreasonable prejudices that we must extend efforts to overcome.