After the fairly weak episode, A Good Day (had a stupid sub-plot about America and Canada nearly going to war), the sixth series returns with a bang with this episode about Sunday Tuesday.
Within the Democratic Party, the three contenders, Congressman Matt Santos, Vice-President Bob Russell and Former VP John Hoynes are battling it out for the nomination. Russell and Hoynes are on the East-Coast whilst the Santos ' campaign are in California , thinking their best shot to win is in that large state.
They is a lot going on this is multi-layered episode there are a lot of plots going on, showing how frantic politics and election campaigning can be. Within the Santos camp there are worries about the campaign running out of money because he keeps coming in third and none of the big donors don't want to get involved. Santos needs a good result to keep the campaign going. Added to the mix the California legislator have passed a bill which makes it illegal for illegal immigrants to have driving licenses, resulting in them not having any access to welfare. This issue puts Santos in a lose-lose situation: if he supports the Governor's veto the story would be Latino for Latinos and looses all other support available to him: but if Santos said nothing then he could loose his core support, the Latino vote. Santos and Josh Lyman need to come up with something really clever to solve this problem.
On the East Coast, Russell and Hoynes are slugging it out in states like New York . Both are the front runners for the Democratic nomination. In the middle of campaigning Will Bailey gives Donna Moss a quick promotion as Russell's spokewoman. After Donna speaks with one of Hoynes' people she believes something is wrong in the Hoynes' camp. Such enough there is and the whole Primary Election is blown wide open.
This is the West Wing at its best. It is fast paced, intelligence entertainment for politics nuts like me. It is multi-layered with a number of plot trends which do interlink. There is excellent direction, editing and most importantly actor, which top talent at their best. It's not as witty as some other episodes but I don't mind because this episode is so engrossing.
An example of American Television at it best.
Within the Democratic Party, the three contenders, Congressman Matt Santos, Vice-President Bob Russell and Former VP John Hoynes are battling it out for the nomination. Russell and Hoynes are on the East-Coast whilst the Santos ' campaign are in California , thinking their best shot to win is in that large state.
They is a lot going on this is multi-layered episode there are a lot of plots going on, showing how frantic politics and election campaigning can be. Within the Santos camp there are worries about the campaign running out of money because he keeps coming in third and none of the big donors don't want to get involved. Santos needs a good result to keep the campaign going. Added to the mix the California legislator have passed a bill which makes it illegal for illegal immigrants to have driving licenses, resulting in them not having any access to welfare. This issue puts Santos in a lose-lose situation: if he supports the Governor's veto the story would be Latino for Latinos and looses all other support available to him: but if Santos said nothing then he could loose his core support, the Latino vote. Santos and Josh Lyman need to come up with something really clever to solve this problem.
On the East Coast, Russell and Hoynes are slugging it out in states like New York . Both are the front runners for the Democratic nomination. In the middle of campaigning Will Bailey gives Donna Moss a quick promotion as Russell's spokewoman. After Donna speaks with one of Hoynes' people she believes something is wrong in the Hoynes' camp. Such enough there is and the whole Primary Election is blown wide open.
This is the West Wing at its best. It is fast paced, intelligence entertainment for politics nuts like me. It is multi-layered with a number of plot trends which do interlink. There is excellent direction, editing and most importantly actor, which top talent at their best. It's not as witty as some other episodes but I don't mind because this episode is so engrossing.
An example of American Television at it best.
