Binge-watching The West Wing now is my...what's the right term? My palate cleanser? My tonic? My antidote? My escape from current nightmare we can't wake up from? I don't know what to call it, but sometimes it just feels necessary for my sanity. Then I fall in love all over again.
I’m actually watching the series for the first time, I bought it a few months ago. And I have started watching while being in quarantine, so much brilliant acting and writing. And I’m glad that I’m having the opportunity to watch... greatness
Jennifer wellman sorry to tell ya, but it’s free on Netflix...however, I am so jealous of you, watching for the first time! I rewatch it all at least once a year, and thrice before presidential campaigns...don’t ask me how many times this year! Haha
I am watching it for the third time and each time I have gotten different quality output from it. Real good quality and thought provoking. Wish there were more episodes. It is really good that we can take from this some hope for the future, even though it is twenty years old. Please everyone vote!!
CJ Cregg was by far my most favorite character in this series, and much of it was because of how Allison Janney was able to bring that character to life. So good to see this gathering. #SamSeabourne2024
I am in the middle of "binging" West Wing again just thi8s week. I saw Ep One day one back in 1999 and have been captured ever since. I binge pretty much every year. Have the DVD sets, and also Netflix. Then just Discovered this clip and some others new here by sheer happenstance. We need West Wing 2.0 back on TV streaming teaching civics, being human to one another once again. Mr Sorkin. Please!
I am a second-time watcher. It occurs to me that alhought these are 40 minute-episodes, the pace is so high that at the end, when the credits come, you have no idea 40 minutes already passed. Seemed like only 25 or so. Of course that is not true for all episodes, but for most of them.
I said it on Twitter, I'll say it here. It took me almost 20 years to find another TV show that I will worship (yes, WORSHIP) forever. This is the first one, The West Wing. 2nd one is Wynonna Earp. Smart writing by passionate people.
M Baleva smart writing allows everyone else to be able to put out their best. My dad always told me that while watching the old Dick Van Dyke show. Another example of excellence in writing and a show that I repeatedly watched my whole life.
my wife and I are rewatching it again right now, in the middle of season 3. If anything, it's refreshing to see a white house and an administration that I feel could actually be working to make everyone's life better
Or Little House on the Prairie. Replace! Replace! Comcast has that running continuously it seems like, on THREE different channels! It would be awesome to see the West Wing.
I'm watching it for the 9th time CJ (War Crimes)! I found it the Fall after the series ended and ordered all of the season DVDs. Of course now I watch it on Netflix -and I'm a Christian who's not even a democrat! Love the show and hope to meet some of you guys in Heaven.
I absolutely love this woman xoxoxo CJ is my role model - tall like me x Sooooo beautiful (I wish) inside and out! So funny and What an amazing laugh, that laugh makes me laugh every time! Intelligent, eloquent x I massively aspire to be like CJ! Such an amazing soul Allison and CJ. Speaking of one is one of the same xxxxx mwah love you and thank you 🙏 so much x Ps loved the jackal xxx ‘imagine being the one he didn’t marry!’ hahahhahaha xx
During the furlough covic related 2020 took me two weeks to complete. I was mesmerize no show matches the realization of this show. Time has passed everyone ages wish somehow it could be redone for now in time.
Allison Janney for President, I said. And the admirable Ms Janney said she could never run for anything because she knew nothing about politics. Well, look what you’ve got now.
@@megtravers327 Rob Lowe has a tense relationship with the rest of the cast. It's really best to not have them in an unstructured "roundtable" like this. A lot of very devoted fans are much going to prefer getting to hear from Marlee over Rob. MLP would have been nice too though but it was such a huge cast over eight years and people aren't always free at the same time.
I don't fully understand how it was demeaning, but I respect your perspective. For me, I thought it was encouraging, exciting, voluntary, and ultimately started the struggle that the characters faced in approaching their personal life and how that conflicted so much with the responsibilities of their jobs.
I find this constant inference that "times were different then" when it comes to sexual harassment very irritating. Men may well have thought that kind of behaviour was fine but the women who lived in those times most certainly did not. Times were not different for women. CJ was not "ahead of her time", she was of her time. Women have always fought back against sexual harassment, have always found it deeply distressing. What happened in the "past" was that our feelings were ignored, trivialised, belittled. Women who complained about sexual harassment were treated as "boring", told they were wrong. Told that what was sexual harassment was totally fine and they were the ones with the problem. Its only very recently that society has finally acknowledged that sexual harassment is not right. I say this to younger women: imagine what it must have been like to live in a time when women had no choice but to endure constant (and I mean constant) harassment. When sexual harassment was seen as comedy on tv and in films. Yes women still have to put up with harassment but at least now there is an avenue to fight back. When young women complain about harassment it is front and centre on the world stage. People listen to you. There is a really clear example of this in the tv show NYPD Blue. I rewatched the first and second seasons recently and there is a ongoing theme of sexual harassment but its portrayed as being normal behaviour. In one scene where a male officer has a coffee mug with enormous boobs on it. Its really crass. The female officer objects and says he should take it home. But the tone of the scene is that she is humourless and victimising the poor man - it turns out the mug was a gift from his partner who was shot and killed on duty. It doesn;'t matter if the mug was a gift, there is no reason he can't use it in his own home. In the film version of MASH the male officers play a "prank" on female officer, Major Houlihan (who they nickname "hotlips"). The men all line up some seats outside the women's shower tent and when they are all assembled, someone pulls a string and the tent walls collapse while she is inside having a shower. She's naked and they are all there laughing hysterically and cheering. The scene is played for comedy and she is shown as some hysteric who complains about them without cause. I remember watching that scene when I was a child and finding it very upsetting. Yet that film won Oscars.
I can't understand why this lady is do insecure. Don't wish you could be like CJ. You ARE CJ. The rest of us are only worthy to kiss your feet....if even that.
When i was recovering from cancer i could not sleep through the night. I kept my portable DVD player by the side of my bed. At 3 a.m. when i woke up j would fire up my dvd player and watch 5 or 6 episodes and go back to sleep for an hr or two. It was soothing ro me in an intellectual way. But i adored the cast and their wit. They truly brought live to the script. Jed and Abby, Josh and Donna, Margaret and Leo. Alison was the glue for me. Sam and Ainsley ....Funny how the generals were the generals for the country not the "precedent"
I wonder if she ever did watch that show from the beginning. She herself is of course marvelous - as for "championing women", however, the whole thing is actually quite horrifying in how blatantly sexist it treats its female characters. Seriously, pick any one episode and try to find a scene where the woman present (if at all included in the conversation) is not being talked down to, admonished, quizzed on her intimate relations or humorously harassed. Great writing, amazing performances, of course - but man, does this have a weird feel watching it today.
fictional character C.J. really did stand up to the V.P. I am guessing they wish some real life person had stood up to Wm. Clinton when he had so many allegations of being inappropriate(and worse) before the White House, and then again once in the White House. Loved the show, but didn't like something she said in the interview. How all the people had such a great moral compass, and so willing to listen to others. Yet, this is the group that generally refuse to include Rob Lowe in reunions and specials, now that it's come out Lowe leans right politically.
I’m watching west wing for the 3rd time again now. Still as good as the first time i saw it.
“It never goes away”
Just started again last week, here!
Me too!
I'm finishing up the last couple episodes of The West Wing for the like 14th time...
Binge-watching The West Wing now is my...what's the right term? My palate cleanser? My tonic? My antidote? My escape from current nightmare we can't wake up from? I don't know what to call it, but sometimes it just feels necessary for my sanity. Then I fall in love all over again.
How about your _bliss?_
Your detox
blanket ?
Your last bastion of sanity?
I love the way you used palate cleanser. It certainly sums up trying to get the stench of our current administration off
I’m actually watching the series for the first time, I bought it a few months ago. And I have started watching while being in quarantine, so much brilliant acting and writing. And I’m glad that I’m having the opportunity to watch... greatness
Jennifer wellman sorry to tell ya, but it’s free on Netflix...however, I am so jealous of you, watching for the first time! I rewatch it all at least once a year, and thrice before presidential campaigns...don’t ask me how many times this year! Haha
I am watching it for the third time and each time I have gotten different quality output from it. Real good quality and thought provoking. Wish there were more episodes. It is really good that we can take from this some hope for the future, even though it is twenty years old. Please everyone vote!!
CJ Cregg was by far my most favorite character in this series, and much of it was because of how Allison Janney was able to bring that character to life. So good to see this gathering. #SamSeabourne2024
“Josh” looks so different but once you hear his voice it hits you in the face
Rewatching West Wing (for the 4th time for my family) is simply good nutrition for our minds and souls. Especially in 2020.
What great writing and what great casting to bring it to life and make it shine.
I just today saw the one where her Secret Service bodyguard dies. Heartbreak! She's so good!
Mark Harmon aka Leroy Jethro Gibbs
I am in the middle of "binging" West Wing again just thi8s week. I saw Ep One day one back in 1999 and have been captured ever since. I binge pretty much every year. Have the DVD sets, and also Netflix. Then just Discovered this clip and some others new here by sheer happenstance. We need West Wing 2.0 back on TV streaming teaching civics, being human to one another once again. Mr Sorkin. Please!
CJ is my favourite character Allison has ever played too.
Josh was my absolute favourite on first watching. Back then I took CJ for granted, only to realize later Allison did a fantastic job.
Allison Janney is the greatest actress ever
Please leave CJ alone... she's just had a Woot Cawal.
CJ so help me, if you say "Bwief" or "Pwesident" one more time...
No, that was a Woot Canaw!
hahahah, nice. :)
I'm rewatching the series, and just saw that episode last night :)
LOLOL one of my fave episodes. Poor CJ
I loved CJ. She and Donna are my favorite characters from the show.
I bought the whole DVD box set after the show ended I have watched in entirety 6 different times and still binge watch on Netflix
I am a second-time watcher. It occurs to me that alhought these are 40 minute-episodes, the pace is so high that at the end, when the credits come, you have no idea 40 minutes already passed. Seemed like only 25 or so.
Of course that is not true for all episodes, but for most of them.
Bonnie Plunkett, LaVona Golden, C.J. Cregg it hard to choose my favourite Allison Janney role
Just discovered West Wing a month ago and it is scary how relevant it is.
Love this show. Have all seasons and watch on a regular
I said it on Twitter, I'll say it here. It took me almost 20 years to find another TV show that I will worship (yes, WORSHIP) forever. This is the first one, The West Wing. 2nd one is Wynonna Earp. Smart writing by passionate people.
Emergency! Is pretty darn good
@@mnfrench7603 Hmmm...I'll check it out. 🙂
M Baleva My three favorite shows that I can watch over and over again our West Wing, Boston Legal, Lost.
@@robinmendelson5512 Boston Legal's my baby sister's fave. 👍
M Baleva smart writing allows everyone else to be able to put out their best. My dad always told me that while watching the old Dick Van Dyke show. Another example of excellence in writing and a show that I repeatedly watched my whole life.
I loved the Goofy things that C.J. Cregg had to act out. Her character made me laugh!
Love from Orlando
I love the west wing, when I watch all seasons, I start right back over!
CJ set the bar high for what a Press Secretary should be!
my wife and I are rewatching it again right now, in the middle of season 3. If anything, it's refreshing to see a white house and an administration that I feel could actually be working to make everyone's life better
I wish we had re-runs running all the time like some other shows (Like Law and Order). I would watch them every day!
k Racine Hulu or Netflix has it.
Or Little House on the Prairie. Replace! Replace! Comcast has that running continuously it seems like, on THREE different channels! It would be awesome to see the West Wing.
And love that Allison was in 2 great Law & Order episodes.
"I'M MARION COTESWORTH HAY!"
CJ: BWAHAHAHA.
Anytime i need a hearty laugh 😅💜
Allison is rocking that 👱
I also wish they could do it again. Please, consider doing it again.
Funny. All these years later when I see a WH Press Secretary I expect C .J. She had an impact. No doubt.
I actually bought the whole series on DVD.
I'm watching it for the 9th time CJ (War Crimes)! I found it the Fall after the series ended and ordered all of the season DVDs. Of course now I watch it on Netflix -and I'm a Christian who's not even a democrat! Love the show and hope to meet some of you guys in Heaven.
Allison you brought CJ to life, you are CJ
Still sheltering in place and on my second watching of the series’s. Episode 5, season 1 predicted the pandemic we are in right now!
I've been binge-watching West Wing continually since the election, just to remind me what a real presidency looks like.
Binging it for the fourth time?🤭 I'm closer to 20
You got that spot on!
I absolutely love this woman xoxoxo CJ is my role model - tall like me x Sooooo beautiful (I wish) inside and out! So funny and What an amazing laugh, that laugh makes me laugh every time! Intelligent, eloquent x I massively aspire to be like CJ! Such an amazing soul Allison and CJ. Speaking of one is one of the same xxxxx mwah love you and thank you 🙏 so much x Ps loved the jackal xxx ‘imagine being the one he didn’t marry!’ hahahhahaha xx
Love that show
Remember, don't talk to Toby when C.J is doing the Jackal
I never would, because I despise smoking. That is why I never liked Toby, he was gruff and he smokes cigars regularly on the show.
The Jackall! 😅
During the furlough covic related 2020 took me two weeks to complete. I was mesmerize no show matches the realization of this show. Time has passed everyone ages wish somehow it could be redone for now in time.
Love her.
Bradley Whitford: [Snorts] That would be bad writing. LOL
When she went to other projects i sad CJ character fit her best. It was a soul rendering talent of acting skill set
Allison is right, I am on my 3rd session of binge watching WW...
She is right. I AM watching West Wing again.
Awesome
I like how Janney's still kinda mad at Whitford for jinxing her trailer with decor haha
C.J. Craig 2020!!
Allison Janney for President, I said. And the admirable Ms Janney said she could never run for anything because she knew nothing about politics. Well, look what you’ve got now.
OMG, just hurry up and start a crowdfunding site to resurrect west wing, you'd get a $100 from me!
Josh came close to predicting this in The Crackpots and These Women
It’s interesting that they got Marlee Matlin when she was never in the main cast. I wish Mary Louise Parker had been there too.
And what about Rob Lowe?
@@megtravers327 Rob Lowe has a tense relationship with the rest of the cast. It's really best to not have them in an unstructured "roundtable" like this. A lot of very devoted fans are much going to prefer getting to hear from Marlee over Rob. MLP would have been nice too though but it was such a huge cast over eight years and people aren't always free at the same time.
Awesome love it
Good people help me out..
a particularly bad Trump week I RUN back to west wing to hide in the fantasy that this is the gov. we could have, sigh.
LPnerd There is a youtube clip of Allyson making a surpise appearance in WH Press room.
I never liked it when CJ did the Jackela I thought it was demeaning for a woman of such power.
I fast forward it every time .. Never sat right
I don't fully understand how it was demeaning, but I respect your perspective. For me, I thought it was encouraging, exciting, voluntary, and ultimately started the struggle that the characters faced in approaching their personal life and how that conflicted so much with the responsibilities of their jobs.
Jane Tucker as I recall it was something Allison Janney came up with herself. Somehow Aaron found a way to work it into the episode.
How is having fun and being silly demeaning?
4th time !?!!
More like 44th time.
Don-NA!
CJ for President, any year...
I keep it going on a loop until the next election.
#WhereisRobLowe?
I like the word antidote to describe it. That’s it! Watching the ww is my antidote to survive these crazy times and, you know, to move on.
I find this constant inference that "times were different then" when it comes to sexual harassment very irritating. Men may well have thought that kind of behaviour was fine but the women who lived in those times most certainly did not. Times were not different for women.
CJ was not "ahead of her time", she was of her time. Women have always fought back against sexual harassment, have always found it deeply distressing. What happened in the "past" was that our feelings were ignored, trivialised, belittled. Women who complained about sexual harassment were treated as "boring", told they were wrong. Told that what was sexual harassment was totally fine and they were the ones with the problem. Its only very recently that society has finally acknowledged that sexual harassment is not right. I say this to younger women: imagine what it must have been like to live in a time when women had no choice but to endure constant (and I mean constant) harassment. When sexual harassment was seen as comedy on tv and in films. Yes women still have to put up with harassment but at least now there is an avenue to fight back. When young women complain about harassment it is front and centre on the world stage. People listen to you.
There is a really clear example of this in the tv show NYPD Blue. I rewatched the first and second seasons recently and there is a ongoing theme of sexual harassment but its portrayed as being normal behaviour. In one scene where a male officer has a coffee mug with enormous boobs on it. Its really crass. The female officer objects and says he should take it home. But the tone of the scene is that she is humourless and victimising the poor man - it turns out the mug was a gift from his partner who was shot and killed on duty. It doesn;'t matter if the mug was a gift, there is no reason he can't use it in his own home.
In the film version of MASH the male officers play a "prank" on female officer, Major Houlihan (who they nickname "hotlips"). The men all line up some seats outside the women's shower tent and when they are all assembled, someone pulls a string and the tent walls collapse while she is inside having a shower. She's naked and they are all there laughing hysterically and cheering. The scene is played for comedy and she is shown as some hysteric who complains about them without cause. I remember watching that scene when I was a child and finding it very upsetting. Yet that film won Oscars.
She looks better with red hair.
I can't understand why this lady is do insecure. Don't wish you could be like CJ. You ARE CJ. The rest of us are only worthy to kiss your feet....if even that.
I got a lawyer
What?
I got a lawyer.
When i was recovering from cancer i could not sleep through the night. I kept my portable DVD player by the side of my bed. At 3 a.m. when i woke up j would fire up my dvd player and watch 5 or 6 episodes and go back to sleep for an hr or two. It was soothing ro me in an intellectual way. But i adored the cast and their wit. They truly brought live to the script. Jed and Abby, Josh and Donna, Margaret and Leo. Alison was the glue for me. Sam and Ainsley ....Funny how the generals were the generals for the country not the "precedent"
I wonder if she ever did watch that show from the beginning. She herself is of course marvelous - as for "championing women", however, the whole thing is actually quite horrifying in how blatantly sexist it treats its female characters. Seriously, pick any one episode and try to find a scene where the woman present (if at all included in the conversation) is not being talked down to, admonished, quizzed on her intimate relations or humorously harassed. Great writing, amazing performances, of course - but man, does this have a weird feel watching it today.
fictional character C.J. really did stand up to the V.P. I am guessing they wish some real life person had stood up to Wm. Clinton when he had so many allegations of being inappropriate(and worse) before the White House, and then again once in the White House.
Loved the show, but didn't like something she said in the interview. How all the people had such a great moral compass, and so willing to listen to others. Yet, this is the group that generally refuse to include Rob Lowe in reunions and specials, now that it's come out Lowe leans right politically.
Which episode was it that CJ confronted a sexual abuser?
she stands up to the Vice President in an episode called “Full Disclosure” season 5 but I don’t remember the episode number.
Episode 15.🙂
Some wise people say that killing Trump is a form of self-defense if you believe him being alive will result in your death. Would that be a tragedy?
You mean metaphorically ,right. Because in this country we try not to assassinate our leaders with, lets say, poison