3.01: Manchester, Part I

The West Wing Weekly

Joshua Malina & Hrishikesh Hirway

Tv & Film

4.9 • 12.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2017

⏱️ 44 minutes

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The Season Three premiere has a dense script, and an enormous production to match. Josh and Hrishi try to sort their way through it all without making any Freudian slips while talking to each mother.

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0:00.0	You're listening to The West Wing Weekly. My name is Rishikesh Hurei.
0:09.6	And my name is Joshua Molina.
0:11.9	Today we are starting off Season 3 for real.
0:14.9	That's right, Season 3 proper.
0:16.7	We're talking about Manchester Part 1. It is Episode 1 of Season 3.
0:21.9	This episode first aired on October 10th. In the year 2001 it was written by Aaron Sorkin,
0:27.0	who was directed by Thomas Tommy Schlame.
0:29.8	If you skipped out on our discussion of Isaac and Ishmael because you don't like that episode
0:35.4	and because it falls out of the continuity and canon of the regular storyline and like
0:40.2	to start this episode by saying go back and listen to it because it was one of my favorite
0:44.0	discussions that we've ever had. And regardless of your feelings about the episode itself,
0:48.2	I thought it was a really worthwhile conversation.
0:51.1	Okay, look at you. Tell him what to do.
0:53.3	I say if you didn't listen to the last one, skip ahead to our next one.
0:58.6	Just listen to Manchester Part 2 and I'm not sure why. I just also want to have an opinion.
1:02.6	Okay.
1:03.6	I mean, say go ahead and skip ahead to Manchester Part 3.
1:06.6	Manchetter. That's really, really, really icky.
1:11.6	Go listen to Manchester Part 3. You would be a really subtle way to tell people to go f*** off.
1:16.1	Yeah, that's true.
1:17.1	Let's try that out.
1:18.1	Oh, you don't like it. Why don't you go listen to Manchester Part 3?
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