The West Wing reunion: Getting Americans to vote and prying open a time capsule

NEW YORK - The episode Hartsfield's Landing, from the third season of The West Wing, first aired in February 2002, which was approximately 200 years ago.

As TV series go, The West Wing was a relative no-brainer to adapt for the stage. Its creator Aaron Sorkin always sounds as if he were writing for the theatre even when he isn't. Recorded under coronavirus protocols at the Orpheum Theater in Los Angeles, the performance instantly recalls why the series was such an intoxicating entertainment and seductive ideal. The original cast members are grayer, but their interactions still sparkle.

President Josiah Bartlet was an aspirational Gallant to reality's Goofuses. In the late Bill Clinton era, he was a fantasy of morally upstanding, unapologetic liberalism. In the Bush years, he was a fantasy of a proudly intellectual president. Today - well, take your pick. Wanting better leaders never goes out of style, but the series' reverent institutionalism now seems much more remote.

As actor Samuel L. Jackson put it during an act break:"Our politics today are a far cry from the romantic notion of The West Wing." Even the central metaphor of the episode, Bartlet's playing his advisers at chess, seems sadly nostalgic in an era dominated by players who prefer to kick over the board.

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