Friday, January 20, 2012

THE WEST WING - Season 1.11 - LORD JOHN MARBURY

The White House is facing an International crisis when India decides to invade Pakistan.  The President calls in ambassadors and is told both sides are ready to fight.

Ontop of this, under the Information of Freedom Act, news about Leo's alcoholism is about to break.

Again, it's hard to feel the tension of this impending war between Pakistan and India because we don't see any of it.  We just hear about it while our characters are sitting down.  That's the drawback to the series. 

The subplot about the alcoholism doesn't register because we see the President isn't worried about it.  So yeah, we know there's going to be some heat but we can tell that when it gets extremely hot, the President's going to step in and squash it.

Found this episode weak and uninvolving.

 

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