Felt like something was missing through the whole trailer. Wasn’t until it was over I realised it was Leo. 😭

@Bangla_te_Shob

3 жыл бұрын

He will always be Gerald to me.

@Legba85

2 жыл бұрын

Sterling K Brown did the role justice. It didn’t feel the same but he didn’t disrespect it.

@carlossongie4165

2 жыл бұрын

Leo is dead

@briane5706

2 жыл бұрын

@@carlossongie4165 R.I.P. John Spencer. The other actors miss him as much as Bartlett and his staff miss Leo.

@jkrasney1

2 жыл бұрын

Leo - John Spencer - was my favorite character on TWW. Wise, not overbearing, considerate, and knew President Bartlett's strengths - making Bartlett, a better leader.

I think the fact that all these actors came back for this mini episode shows how well they were treated the entire show. The whole cast was amazing.

@Dewebje

5 ай бұрын

And they still had joy in playing they're parts.

@cameronwoodward1140

25 күн бұрын

Half true. The salary disputes were very public, which is why Rob Lowe left

@Mark-ke1rj

20 күн бұрын

I think it shows how far Hollywood extremists will go to push their agenda.

I have no bloody idea what new shows are famous. I just keep on watching this show again and again.

Josh Lyman is now Wolf Blitzer lol

@davidpotvin4983

3 жыл бұрын

....aren't they related? 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤪🤪🤪😷😇😏

@victoriaheindel1143

3 жыл бұрын

Exactly what I thought. "Wolf Blitzer is in it?" Heck, he was Mission Impossible 6. Why not?

@aarontelander

3 жыл бұрын

He would have voted for Obama for a third time if he could

@carolslade9600

4 ай бұрын

He’s 60! Can you believe it!!

I love that Richard brought Toby’s ball.

This brought tears to my eyes. I've always like to pretend President Bartlett was real.

@SchwarzeWitwe2

3 жыл бұрын

(psst, it's Bartlet.)

@Kevin-tz2lv

3 жыл бұрын

@@SchwarzeWitwe2 yeah him too lol

@NPNPaganArtistSpotlight

3 жыл бұрын

President Bartlet IS My president

@AlAn-kw1bb

3 жыл бұрын

@@SchwarzeWitwe2 What you mean ? He wasn't?

@SchwarzeWitwe2

3 жыл бұрын

@@AlAn-kw1bb my point was that his name only has one final T.

I love how this cast never get sick of talking about WW nearly 20 yrs after it ended. Any interview with Alison Janney, Bradley Whitford, Martin Sheen, Rob Lowe etc they are always so keen to share their experiences with their fans. This short play is an example about how they will will relive these roles for good causes and and I love that about this cast.

@N0d4chi

Жыл бұрын

They were and are just great actors. Its a marvel of a show, even the worst episode is still leagues ahead of other top notch programmes

@Hail_Sagan

Жыл бұрын

Very well-said

It's almost bittersweet to see the actors I grew up watching on television all now have white hairs of wisdom. Rewatching West Wing again as an older adult is nostalgic. A reminder of how far we've come, but in a lot of ways, how things are very much still the same.

@aaronstark1969

2 жыл бұрын

As someone who was very young when it first released and is watching it for the first time it’s been incredibly frustrating to see a fictional White House address issues we are still fighting for 20 years later

If they can give us a limited series of another Dexter season, why can't we have a mini-series where Sam Seaborn runs for president?

@Matej_Sojka

3 жыл бұрын

With Josh as his Chief of Staff and Tobey as Director of Communications again.

@davewilson2341

3 жыл бұрын

@@Matej_Sojka CJ?

@Matej_Sojka

3 жыл бұрын

@@davewilson2341 Probably some giant non profit organization leader or a senator. I can´t think of a position in the White House that would not be going backwards for her after her work in Africa.

@TPRM1

3 жыл бұрын

Because Rob Lowe’s a Republican.

@windwalker5765

3 жыл бұрын

​@@Matej_Sojka Tobey's right out (CoS has to pass a background check for security clearance, and he's leaked classified info). Josh is more likely a Cabinet post, or possibly a big time civvie job. CoS is gonna be Charlie or Will.

Just listening to the music brings back so many memories.

@JulioRodriguez-vm9rp

3 жыл бұрын

Whats about?

@mohamedaminekantar9278

3 жыл бұрын

sure, the same feelings here, 20 years ago i was a law and english student, and it was so fun having american civ classes and on the weekends i watch what i learn on dram series, as if i was one of the cast...very nice memories

@amywoodcock2811

2 жыл бұрын

@@mohamedaminekantar9278 I was also in college when The West Wing was on the air. I had one professor who loved the show so much he would make us watch episodes and assign for us to write opinion papers on them. I looked forward to his class the most!

@mohamedaminekantar9278

2 жыл бұрын

@@amywoodcock2811 you were so lucky Amy to have a professor like him,,, i remember when we had this chapter about limited government and the check and ballance principle i was talking to my classmates as if i were Toby...and our proff ( an algerian graduate from Illinois univ) was so impressed...yes indeed very very nice memories....but i wonder why we dont have such high level in politics nowdays?? why politics is so mean nowdays??

My late mother was a devoted fan of The West Wing. She was able to see this special before she passed, and she thought it was wonderful. I'm so grateful to everyone involved for giving The West Wing back to her for one night.

Gosh. This show. 1999-2006 it was everywhere with me. I’m a teacher so I would be doing a lot of paperwork. I’d watch the dvds over and over again. It was on the night of 9/11 Sydney time. The closing theme was sort of a bedtime alarm. Our 20 year old cockatiel still chirps when the closing theme plays. It was hopeful. Optimistic. Wonderful writing. Newsroom runs a close second to this show. But there will always be a special place in my heart for the message of the west wing.

OMG. I'm about to cry. 😳😭 This is the only series that I have watched 8 times front to back, and it is not even near getting old for me.

@paulcolburn3855

2 жыл бұрын

Favorite episode was at the beginning of the second season "This White House?" And it wasn't because they introduced Ainsley Hayes. It was the way the White House introduced us to the drug companies and showed "their side" on the HIV/AIDS medication debate for 3rd world countries. President Nimbala was a fictitious president of a fictitious African country, but it could have been ANY Sub-Saharan African country being ravaged by AIDS and begging for drugs. It explained why it doesn't work (they don't wear wrist watches, they can't tell time.) No WAY would any democrat today say such a thing even though it is entire true. Because politics would dictate that they would lose their elected office saying something so true and so hurtful. But those are the real problems that our government faces with elected leaders and voters who are more emotional than rational.

We really need a sequel, this show deserves it

@JustinSIsTank

Жыл бұрын

I always envisioned a new President Bartlet(-Young, aka Zoey) with an ambitious First Gentleman. If only Elizabeth Moss weren't in EVERYTHING.

@BishopWalters12

26 күн бұрын

Hollywood gets too heavy handed these days and the Democrats would be treated like saints.

@joshuahill6994

26 күн бұрын

@JustinSIsTank personally I figured the president in a sequel would be Sam seaborn, especially with that one line of dialog from Bartlett about how Sam's gonna be president one day, in the original episode this special is based on too I believe, as soon as I heard that it felt like they were setting themselves up to return one day before the show was even over

The whole cast all looking their actual age except Rob Lowe, who *hasn't aged a day*!?!?

@kodya.4238

3 жыл бұрын

Allison Janney still looks good too.

@deanwbrs

3 жыл бұрын

@@kodya.4238 Oh of course, she looks gorgeous, just not the same age as in the show!

@RafiOmar83

3 жыл бұрын

One word: Botox

@Ethan-dn1wc

3 жыл бұрын

I'm also pretty sure Bradley decided to dye his hair white, and think he looks a lot better because of it.

@bebebeberson592

3 жыл бұрын

He's a vampire. But a lovely one.

I've been binge watching The West Wing just to remind myself what a sane West Wing looks like.

@g.l.9944

3 жыл бұрын

SAME

@CensorWars

3 жыл бұрын

House of Cards is more realistic for a Democrat Admin honestly

@GrandMoffJoseph

3 жыл бұрын

@@g.l.9944 ALSO SAME

@CensorWars

3 жыл бұрын

@@g.l.9944 house of cards is more realistic for the Dems

@YoNeener

3 жыл бұрын

@@CensorWars What a boring reply. Why did you even bother? Need a participation ribbon?

I had never watched this show when it was on, but my son who is a huge fan convinced me to try it. I am bingeing it and just starting season 4. I can't believe I never watched this incredible show.

@danb420

2 жыл бұрын

The Newsroom was amazing too. And, if you can find it.. watch Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip. another excellent series by Sorkin.

I so love that years on these character come back again and again whether it’s for charity, a national campaign or just for laughs. Always with Grace and enthusiasm. They never whinge or complain or shy away from the roles that made them first famous. They just friggin lean in every time. Even in 2020 they still do West Wing takes AND I love it.

Just the music is sufficient to stir my heart and remember fond times in the company of these kind souls

God I love The West Wing. I had just started at film school in the UK when I got hold of the dvd’s of the first season. It was the best thing I had ever seen on television (and I was, still am, a huge Star Trek fan). To Arron and all the cast crew and crew, thank you for this show.

Best series ever!!!! Would love to see this series come back with Aaron Sorkin's writing!!

As much as I still love the West Wing...It was just never the same w/o John Spencer. He was one of my ALL-TIME fav TV characters. I would forget that he was actually John Spencer and not Leo in real life. We all could use a friend like Leo.

goosebumps!!! really special show, really miss this kind of great TV writing and acting

John is smiling at Sterling from up above.

I know it's wrong but just doesn't feel right without Leo , God how I miss this show 👊🌟

@solomonaerospace5932

3 жыл бұрын

I agree. Leo was my favorite character in the West Wing. He was like a grandfather figure for the Staff. No one will ever be as good at playing Leo as John Spencer did.

@shanemurphy3186

2 жыл бұрын

We all miss Leo, but I thought Sterling did a great job nonetheless

I’ve watched the episode recreation and I cried all the way through. Very powerful. One of my favorites. Wish Netflix would put it back

I’m on my first run of The West Wing and only have three words to say: PLEASE NEVER END!!!

Well....guess I'm in for another re-watching of the full series. You did this to me......thank you.

Is the theme music MADE to get one all teared up?

@Maaden84

3 жыл бұрын

Yes

Loved loved loved this airing! It was at least a decade ago, yet the topics are almost identical to our current situation.

After I watched this I thought, "I could watch a political drama with Sterling K. Brown." He was a fantastic Leo.

@WalterThomasMcCarty

3 жыл бұрын

Same

@JStarStar00

3 жыл бұрын

He did an OK job but it was disconcerting to see Leo played by an African-American a generation younger than Bartlet. Leo and Bartlet were supposed to be contemporaries; if anything Leo was a few years older.

@JStarStar00

3 жыл бұрын

If I had been Sorkin I would have tried to get Michael Douglas to play Leo just as a one-off substitute. Douglas would play the trusted COS to President Bartlet just as Martin Sheen had played the trusted COS to Andrew Shepherd in The American President, the ancestor to TWW.

@lolzlolz102

3 жыл бұрын

@@JStarStar00 I wonder if they went the way they did out of respect for John Spencer and his character. After all he was one of a kind and made the character his own and imitation doesn't sit too well.

@joelicence2725

3 жыл бұрын

@@JStarStar00 you have to admit sterling K. Brown did a fantastic job and I don't think it matters... its acting right?

John Spencer must be smiling from above. Josh and Donna look like grand parents!

I only binged the whole show not long ago for the first time. I was only a small child when it was first around and after seeing The Newsroom and A Few Good Men in recent years I’ve had to see all of Aaron Sorkin’s work. This is my favourite by far. A few weeks after I finished they announced the special and I got what I can only imagine is a tiny piece of emotionality that the longtime fans of this show felt. I cannot wait for this special and I would love for the show to be revived but with Sam Seaborne as either the newly elected president or one of the front runners. The world needs a show like this now more than ever to see how politics should be done, spoken about and portrayed in the media to inform the electorates. We’ve lost our way

In my head canon Zoey and Charlie got married.

One of my all time favorite shows. Now I will have to binge watch the series again. Will be there when it airs. My top favorite shows are by Aaron Sorkin. He is great at his profession. Like most on here would love to see it come back.

MAN. This just makes me wanna watch the series, again. For the fifth time.

I watched and loved The American President by Aaron Sorkin so I had to see what The West Wing was about. Damn glad I did.

This Is as beloved show as there has ever been on TV

I SERVE AT THE PLEASURE OF THE PRESIDENT

@drksdr

3 жыл бұрын

I serve at the pleasure of President Bartlett

Sterling K. Brown as Leo? I am here for this, and I think John Spencer would approve. "Hartsfield's Landing" was an amazing episode and while it would have been great to see something new in the canon, I have no doubt this will be entertaining.

Damn! You but the part when Charlie crazy glued her phone.

"The West Wing, Seaborne Administration ". Spin-off's of NCIS (San Diego, New Orleans) Law & Order (SVU, Criminal Intent) CSI (Miami) ; have been done, it's time for a West Wing spin-off. First it would start, as a miniseries/pilot, with Sam as a Governor contemplating running for President. It would have flashbacks (scenes with Seaborne and Bartlett) and currently talking with his Gubernatorial staff. In the last episode of the pilot/miniseries, it could have the flashback scene were Bartlett enters Seaborne's office about the intuitive feeling Seaborne will get later on to run for President, while wishing him luck on running for Congress. Then it would bring Sheen back as a cameo now aged former President, and Seaborne comes to see him on advice, and at the end of the pilot/miniseries; Seaborne announces being a candidate for President. Then the regular series would start as President Seaborne.

i learnd too much through out this series, i even wanted Martin to be a president for real, he was asked this question by the way many times, that really brings back very deep memories, i did not want it to end, and of course no one can forget Leo...

This made me cry, and I'm not ashamed.

@PlasmaCoolantLeak

3 жыл бұрын

Right?

I am watching it again. I reach for it when I need an old friend who thinks the way I do, who understands why I think that way, and respects me for it.

I continue to love this cast from this show.

I tear up actually when I hear it. I started binge watching it after the 2016 election, and started binge watching all over again in the last few months. And just want to see if you haven’t seen the documentary featuring Pete Souza’s photography of Obama admin, I highly recommend. Gives me the same vibe. “The Way I See It”

John Spencer we love and miss you. He was with them when they filmed this.

Literally brought tears to my eyes.

This was wonderfully done

OH NOOOOO i was just curious about this and I might cry. I'm still in season 2 binge so I'll save this for later :')

I have watched a lot of TV shows over the years. However, the list of shows that I would go back and watch again and again is quite small! The West Wing is on that list! During the pandemic I went back and watched The West Wing from season 1-7 and I rewatched Justified from Season 1-6! Those two shows are in a league of their own!!

just the trailer made me cry and that black and white is to die for!

Made me emotional to watch. 👏🏽

I'm currently watching the series (season 6) and this brought a tear to my eye

Ok, so Peralta's Dad and the "Dentist" murderer are here

I really wish they’d made this internationally available. I’ve seen clips, but never the whole thing.

Best series ever! I miss the West Wing so much. And I'm not even from America :)

please bring this show back we need now more than ever

@BishopWalters12

7 ай бұрын

LOL

I wish they would do a 'what happened to the characters' kind of limited run series.... Did Sam run for President? Did Charlie and Zoe get married? Did Josh and Donna? Whatever happened to Ainsley... I'd always hoped that she would marry Sam... or if not her, then Melanie, Leo's daughter.

@LynTheAce

3 жыл бұрын

I’m pretty sure Mallory married someone else. I could be wrong but I remember something said about an unnamed son-in-law at Leo’s funeral

@amywoodcock2811

2 жыл бұрын

@@LynTheAce yeah, I seem to remember that Mallory married someone else. I always liked Ainsley with Sam as well.

So, this was the first time in my life that I got goosebumps, on my face. Very weird feeling!

If only the whole thing could be watched outside the US!!

I'm ready.

President Bartlet did tell Sam he'd be president one day Maybe we need a Season 8?

I forgot about this. I would have loved to have seen it.

After all these years, he's still President Bartlett.

We binged watched the entire series in November - the plot line of the actual West Wing was far to incredulous

As a fan of the west wing I almost came to tears. To this day I truly believe in my heart this show is the greatest show ever . the west wing to me is the THE G.O.A.T.

At first, I thought that Bradley Whitford was playing Wolf Blitzer.

0:39 Absolutely beautiful. Makes you reminisce of a more optimistic America.

Toby and the President clashing again!

how did i miss this?!?!?!?!?!?

the feels...the feels....

They are all great actora

I should give this a watch

This was really good, and Sterling K. Brown would have made John Spencer proud.

I'm not crying 😢 you're crying

I have GOT to watch this ! I wish it was not on HBO

@lysechrist1947

3 жыл бұрын

Me, too. I don’t have HBO

Imagine a kind, compassionate, honest, patriotic and intelligent public servant as president

@davidcorreia3901

3 жыл бұрын

Imagine flying through space at warp speeds and communicating with alien cultures.... Neither one is real or going to happen.

@BishopWalters12

7 ай бұрын

America hasn't had that for decades.

To be honest, when I first heard of the original show I thought it was a very boring show, but after having to watch it in US Government class, I fell in love with the show and I didnt even get to watch anymore of it since the virus came around and I dont have Netflix at all...... I miss watching that show so much when the teacher didn't have any work for us to do other than to take notes of the show for future assignments

I binge the whole 7 seasons, in order, every Autumn (aka, 'Fall' in the US). The sets of the world around the cast is starting to look old, now; after all, more than two decades have past since three of the seasons were shot. But, the intensity of the human interaction and the crazy that is global politics never gets old.

The original cast was amazing enough, but Sterling K Brown always seems to make anything he's in better.

How did I miss this???

I'm in the UK and haven't had a chance to see this yet. Its drives me nuts whenever I'm reminded of it. A question to those who have seen it, is Sterling K. Brown good as Leo? He's always struck me as an intense actor which i don't think would fit Leo too well. Looks great, I'm just curious

Nice to see Bradley Whitford in reasonable shape again. I saw him in few things these last years where he was uncomfortably overweight. He used to have a boyish charm as Josh Lyeman and now he is the silver fox and it works for him. I am really curious about those special appearances that were teased here. The West Wing cast with Samuel L. Jackson? I can't wait.

@SeasonsChange14

3 жыл бұрын

Nope, not Samuel L Jackson. Sterling K Brown from "This is Us" fame.

Rip Leo

Is there some way some one can tape all of it for utube so us deprived Brits can view, thanks

@LeoDaly1

3 жыл бұрын

Download the All4 (Channel 4) app. All 7 seasons are on it 😁👍👍👍

@markshaw878

3 жыл бұрын

@@LeoDaly1 But not the special, which makes me very sad. If someone could upload it so us Brit wingnuts can watch it, it would make 2020 a little more bearable.

La Meilleure Série ❤❤❤❤

0:55 Sam Seaborn ❤

I.WANT.THE.WEST.WING.BACK!!!!!!!

Of course Rob Lowe is the only one who didn't age! lol

@Bazookatone1

3 жыл бұрын

You don't think Janel Moloney hasn't drunk from some magical fountain of eternal-ish youth? Actually I think she's been sucking the life force out of poor Bradley Whitford.

Gerald!!

Bartlet 2020

Lol... the last season predates the first iPhone. But, could you imagine Bartlett let loose on Twitter?

When, when, are we getting a reboot of the West Wing? Haven't we waited long enough? Sterling K Brown better be in it.

@Kevin-tz2lv

3 жыл бұрын

Well that was Sorkin's idea for if he ever rebooted it, Brown was going to play their president. But he's not going to reboot the show. Sticking to movies.

@BishopWalters12

7 ай бұрын

It would be heavy handed lefty propaganda if it got made today.

It has been years and it is still not avalible in my country

Rob Lowe made a deal with the devil

@ally_bally6728

3 жыл бұрын

He’s the real Dorian Grey.

Damn, the cast of West Wing had to come back to help us vote in the right person into office... That's deep.

where can i fined this!

anyone know where I can watch this episode. I live in the uk