With its powerful performances, intelligent dialogue, dynamic characters and coverage of hot-button issues, The West Wing is considered one of the most riveting political dramas of all time. Over the ...
This is Day 113 of the WGA strike and Day 40 of the SAG-AFTRA strike. Martin Sheen led a reunion of the cast and crew of The West Wing and embodied his character President Bartlet at a major rally in ...
Whether it's the earnest Josiah Bartlet from "The West Wing" or the manipulative Frank Underwood in "House of Cards," Americans prefer television presidents to their real-life POTUS, President Barack ...
Jed Bartlet, the fictional president played by Martin Sheen in The West Wing, inspired many a TV-obsessed college student to move to Washington in the early aughts. We made fun of those college ...
Few West Wing characters are as loved as President Jed Bartlet, Martin Sheen’s folksy, Nobel Prize-winning commander-in-chief. Bartlet’s charm is partly rooted in his many quirks of personality—his ...
At this point, making fun of the repeated tropes that can be found in Aaron Sorkin’s work as a writer and a director is basically a sub-genre unto itself: The walk-and-talk, the rapid-fire dialogue, ...