3.13: Night Five

The West Wing Weekly

Joshua Malina & Hrishikesh Hirway

Tv & Film

4.9 • 12.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2017

⏱️ 72 minutes

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To get some real-world insight into the Sam/Ainsley/Celia scene in Night Five, we invited three West Wing Weekly listeners – Amy Carlson, Jamie Lynn Crofts, and Debora Verdier, employment attorneys in three different states, representing both plaintiffs and defendants – to give us their perspective in a panel discussion. It's our episode, it's about to become your episode, and we sleep…ehh, ok, not that well.

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0:00.0	Hi Ho, we're back with more The West Wing Weekly. I'm Joshua Molina.
0:11.9	My name is Rishikesh Hereway and today we're talking about season 3 episode 13. It's called
0:16.5	Night 5.
0:17.8	It was written by Aaron Sork and it was directed by Christopher Missiano and at first
0:22.1	aired here we go again on February 6th, 2002.
0:28.5	This episode was submitted for consideration for an Emmy nomination for Martin Sheen. It
0:34.7	was submitted for an Emmy nomination for Richard Schiff and it was also part of the package
0:40.3	that won the West Wing outstanding drama.
0:43.2	Huh, I wouldn't have submitted it for any of those.
0:48.1	Would you have this fine episode? Is it a particularly, is it the Paragon of West Wing
0:54.9	episodes? Is it an extraordinary example of Martin Sheen or Richard Schiff's work?
1:03.0	It is pretty hard to pick. I wouldn't pick this one for Toby. Maybe I'm with you on
1:07.3	that. I did like Martin Sheen's performance in this though.
1:10.0	They're both great.
1:11.4	I mean, they're always great.
1:13.1	But jumping right in, I especially liked the delivery of his exchange at the beginning
1:18.6	with Adam Arkin who returns as Stanley Keyworth when he says,
1:23.8	Josh was shot. Me too. Is that why you can't sleep?
1:28.9	How would I know? It's fair point.
1:31.6	Thank you.
1:32.6	The way he says thank you at the end, I really like Lucky's Cantankarus. I mean, he's
1:36.9	cranky probably because he hasn't slept.
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