5.04: Han (with Paula Yoo)

The West Wing Weekly

Joshua Malina & Hrishikesh Hirway

Tv & Film

4.9 • 12.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2018

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Listener beware - like the episode we're discussing, Han, this installment of The West Wing Weekly has more sad piano music than all previous episodes combined. When they're not lost in a sadness so deep no tears will come, Josh and Hrishi interview Paula Yoo, the writer who came up with the story of a would-be North Korean defector who visits the White House.

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0:00.0	Here we go.
0:03.0	Hey guys, wipe away those tears and listen to the West Korean weekly.
0:20.5	There's hope, there's always hope.
0:26.6	I'm Joshua Molina and I'm Rishikesh Hereway.
0:29.6	For those of you wondering, I was playing left hand and Rish was playing right hand.
0:35.8	Today we're talking about Han.
0:37.4	It's episode four of season five of the West Wing.
0:40.5	This episode was written by Peter Noah.
0:43.7	Peter Noah would later go on to many things, including being a consulting producer on,
0:48.8	I believe, 40 episodes of scandal.
0:51.0	He's a great writer.
0:52.8	And story creative for this episode goes to Peter Noah and Mark Goughman.
0:56.5	That's Peter Noah, and Mark Goughman, and A&D, Paula Yu.
1:01.6	And the direction is by the always magnificent Christopher Mizziano.
1:06.0	The episode first aired on October 22nd, 2003.
1:10.5	In this episode, a North Korean pianist comes to the White House for performance, but
1:14.2	things get complicated when he tells the president he wants to defect.
1:17.6	CJ is for it, but everyone else is pretty much against it, and the president has to weigh
1:20.9	both arguments.
1:22.3	Meanwhile, Will is having a hard time writing an inspiring speech about the nomination
1:26.2	and confirmation of Vice President to be Bob Russell.
1:29.6	And Josh is battling one Congressman who plans to be a holdout vote against the nomination.
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