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).
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“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.
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Flashbacks to his first meeting with Mrs. L. while a prep-school “boy king” remind Bartlet, and us, of his destiny.
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