The West Wing 1999 123movies

Watch The West Wing 1999–2006 123movies, Full TV Series Online – Presidential advisers get their personal lives hopelessly tangled up with professional duties as they try to conduct the business of running a country. Fictional Democratic President Josiah “Jed” Bartlet suffers no fools, and that policy alienates many. He and his dedicated staffers struggle to balance the needs of the country with the political realities of Washington, D.C., working through two presidential terms that include countless scandals, threats and political scuffles, as well as the race to succeed Bartlet as the leader of the free world..
Plot: The West Wing provides a glimpse into presidential politics in the nation’s capital as it tells the stories of the members of a fictional presidential administration. These interesting characters have humor and dedication that touches the heart while the politics that they discuss touch on everyday life.
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	8.9/10 Votes: 76,077 | IMDB
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Reviews:

If every program on TV was this good I’d never leave the house.

I have to agree with the reviewers who call this the best drama show ever, at least for entertainment value. Of course, it gets panned often for political reasons by people who perhaps don’t watch it enough to see that, yes, it is a liberal administration being represented here, but they often make mistakes and fail in their efforts, so it is hardly a progressive utopia.

I write novels in my spare tome, and I like to think my dialogue is a strong point, so I have nothing but admiration for the fast and witty conversations in this show. You may literally have to watch the series a second time to catch everything thrown at you in their quick back and forth banter, often delivered as they pace around the West Wing set. But that is no hardship either. Much has been made about Aaron Sorkin’s departure from the show, and perhaps there was a slight drop in quality because of it, but it was still well worth watching. It was so good, the new kids couldn’t break it.

The first edition, indeed season, of this political drama is as good as it gets. Aaron Sorkin has created a monster – in just about every sense – and the cast led by Martin Sheen (“President Bartlet”) consistently deliver well as the senior advisors in his administration – alongside some sadly infrequent appearances from his no-nonsense wife (Stockard Channing) – guide us through the daily trials and tribulations accompanying American government. For the most part, the pace is hectic, controlled (sometimes) by the calming, sagacious influence of his Chief of Staff “Leo” (John Spencer) and deals with just about every sort of scenario – domestic, foreign, familial and collegiate that comes across the paths of the Director of Communications (Richard Schiff), his deputy (Rob Lowe), the Press Secretary (Allison Janney) as well as “Josh Lyman” (Bradley Whitford) – the passionate but occasional liability that is the deputy Chief of Staff. Sorkin and the cast manage, effortlessly, to create a series of scenarios that reminded me of both “Yes, Minister” and the original (British) “House of Cards” – comedy and humour expertly mixed with politicking on a grand, yet personal, scale. Nothing is off limits insofar as the subjects covered and it presents as authentic a depiction of government as we are ever likely to see. Personally, I though Stockard Channing added loads to this as the First Lady and Janney and Spencer’s characters gave me hope that maybe, just maybe, someone in there knew what the hell was going on. Of course it takes an hugely American perspective on things, which as a non-American grated a bit on occasion with an intermingling of fact and fiction that sometimes compromised the integrity of the stories; but in the main it is one hell of a watch. Unfortunately, around about the start of series four, the writing starts to slide and the cast – fresh and vibrant at the beginning of the run – begin to take too great a role behind the camera; the plots become too personal (even romantic) and far-fetched. The original stars feature a bit less and it loses much of it’s potency and it’s plausibility. Certainly, the last two series which focus on presidential succession and sidelined many of the cast we had followed since day one left me cold and disinterested. By the conclusion I felt there had been maybe two series too many… At it’s best, it is great, thought-provoking, entertainment though and well worth binging on.

The Best. Period
This is the finest show ever produced for TV. Each episode is a triumph. The casting, the writing, the timing are all second to none. This cast performs miracles.

The secret to this show is that it is, at heart, a comedy, even when tragic things are happening. That gives Martin Sheen, Allison Janney, Bradley Whitford, Richard Schiff et al. the room to work. And do they ever.

It works because it is deep, the characters are well-drawn. Early in the first season, CJ gets a root canal and walks around for the rest of the episode with cotton stuffed in her mouth, yelling things like” The Pwesident must be bweefed!” This has to be seen to be believed. It had me literally on the floor, laughing until I feared I would hurt myself. I don’t know how many shows have tried cheap stunts like that and they are just that, cheap. On “The West Wing” it works because we know CJ, we know how unlike her, and yet like her, that moment is. And Toby’s slow-burn reaction is pitch perfect.

Bravo.

As good as it gets
As many, many other reviewers have said (and others have agreed with) this is as good as TV gets … period. I don’t think there is a better show ever to tell the truth and perhaps that’s because Aaron Sorkin’s newest show only has one season under its belt so far. Perhaps after seven years it will top even this monumental achievement in television but it has quite a challenge ahead of it.

This series set a standard for sharp rhetoric and quick, clever interplay between characters as well as creating the “walk and talk” scene where often short meetings take place between characters as they walk from their office (or other location) to a scheduled meeting. This gave the scenes a physical rhythm to go with the verbal rhythm of the witty “patter” (for lack of a better word to portray the beautifully rhythmic feel of the scripted lines). The lines nearly could be song lyrics as the syllabic beat and witty wordplay made for fast and tightly-filled scenes that sometimes could almost need two viewings from which to pull all the information you needed.

And while this show is listed as a drama, which it is, it could also be very funny on many levels. Often the level of embarrassment set at the heights of the White House are used as comedic tools and thinking of how embarrassing a simple error on our every day level can be (assuming we’re not in the daily international eye), placing the same error on a White House level certainly can make you cringe yet laugh as you watch one unfold in the show (Donna Moss was often a wonderful character for this to happen to). But also, as in the episode “Galileo” when contact with a Mars space probe is lost that has been tied into a televised “classroom” hosted by President Bartlet, the President explains that if someone wanted to see a real screwup, they should “come up here and see how the big guys really do it” (for a rather close paraphrase I believe).

It’s also another nice aspect of the show that they show these people to be human. I know they’re human in real life but how many times do we think of them that way? Not many really … at least not in the way The West Wing showed them to be and really, that is how they are (unless they are to ungodly pompous and arrogant to be believed … which of course those offices are filled with somewhat regularly and unfortunately). Also however and unfortunately, the concern and humanity of this administration is not shown nearly enough in the real political arena. I know, I know, there are many ways in which they simply cannot be in real life. Or at least cannot seem to be in real life. But that’s another conversation I suppose.

I watch this entire series through every couple years or so it seems, perhaps more often even. It really is that good. If you haven’t watched it or haven’t watched it in some times or didn’t watch consistently the first time it was broadcast, I encourage you to treat yourself to a television show that is every bit as good as the best film you’ve ever seen … imho at least. 🙂

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 44 min, 1 hr (60 min) (including commercials) (USA)
Budget N/A
Revenue N/A
Status N/A
Rated TV-14
Genre Drama
Director N/A
Writer Aaron Sorkin
Actors Martin Sheen, Rob Lowe, Allison Janney
Country United States
Awards Won 26 Primetime Emmys. 120 wins & 264 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby
Aspect Ratio 1.33 : 1 (1999-2000), 1.78 : 1 (2000-)
Camera Panavision Panaflex Millennium, Panavision Ultra Speed MKII Lenses, Panavision Panaflex Platinum, Panavision Ultra Speed MKII Lenses
Laboratory N/A
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm (Eastman EXR 100T 5248, Kodak Vision 500T 5279, EXR 500T 5298)
Cinematographic Process Super 35 (3-perf)
Printed Film Format Video (NTSC)