Best Episodes Countdown #9: ‘The West Wing’ — “Two Cathedrals”
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Season 2, Episode 22
Creator Aaron Sorkin’s virtuosic masterpiece of political drama, The West Wing, achieved an operatic peak in the second-season finale, when President Jed Bartlet (Martin Sheen) rants to God, partially in Latin, following the sudden death of his beloved secretary, Mrs. Dolores Landingham (Kathryn Joosten).
The West Wing
“Have I displeased you, you feckless thug?” Bartlet rages in D.C.’s National Cathedral as a storm of biblical proportions brews and he debates a reelection campaign after going public about his multiple sclerosis.
Flashbacks to his first meeting with Mrs. L. while a prep-school “boy king” remind Bartlet, and us, of his destiny.
The West Wing, Streaming on Netflix and Amazon Video
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