5.05: Constituency of One (with Jennifer Palmieri)

The West Wing Weekly

Joshua Malina & Hrishikesh Hirway

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4.9 • 12.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2018

⏱️ 63 minutes

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What is a “Constituency of One”? You know, it’s all about that boss, ‘bout that boss, those troubles. It’s all about that boss, ‘bout that boss, those troubles. Toby and POTUS. Will and Bob Russell. Amy and the First Lady. Plus, we speak with Communications Director Jennifer Palmieri, whose list of bosses includes Secretary Hillary Clinton and President Barack Obama.

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0:00.0	You're listening to The West Wing Weekly. I'm Joshua Molina.
0:10.3	And I'm Rishi Kei Shereway. And today we're talking about episode 5 of Season 5. It's called
0:15.4	Constituency of One.
0:17.1	The teleplay is by West Wing Weekly Hall of Famer Eli Addy. The story is by Eli and Michael
0:23.8	Oates Palmer and the direction is by Laura Innis, terrific actor from ER and an old John
0:31.5	Wells Croney.
0:32.8	And a multi-time director of The West Wing.
0:35.5	That's right.
0:36.5	And this episode first aired on October 29th, 2003.
0:40.7	Prior to this, Laura Innis also directed Let Bartlett B. Bartlett and Shibleth.
0:45.8	Classics.
0:46.8	Two classics under her belt.
0:48.3	Very impressive.
0:49.3	I was delighted as this episode began to discover my first full frontal.
0:54.1	Have you ever done full frontal before?
0:56.0	I've done brief nudity.
0:59.2	That's where your naked except for the briefs that you're wearing.
1:02.2	No, that's where I'm fully naked.
1:04.0	Oh, yeah. That's my problem. I don't need to talk about it here.
1:08.4	This episode has a great will storyline giving you some juicy material to work with because
1:14.6	Will is caught in a dilemma of his own, whether to stick with the team and work under Toby
1:20.8	under conditions that have gotten quite a bit worse from when he first started.
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