5.18: Access

The West Wing Weekly

Joshua Malina & Hrishikesh Hirway

Tv & Film

4.9 • 12.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2018

⏱️ 44 minutes

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In "Access," we're given a behind-the-scenes look at what it's like to work inside the West Wing. …wait a second, what have all these other episodes been about? Let's discuss.

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0:00.0	Yep, it's the West Wing Weekly. I'm Joshua Molina.
0:10.9	And I'm Rishi K. Sherway. And today we're talking about access. It's episode 18 from season
0:16.3	5. It was written by Lauren Schmidt. It was directed by Alex Graves and at first aired
0:22.4	on the last day of March in 2004.
0:25.9	And Schmidt, of course, is our friend, aka Lauren Schmidt-Historyk.
0:30.2	That's right.
0:30.8	Lauren number four.
0:32.1	This episode is a documentary style unique take on the West Wing where a camera crew from
0:38.5	a PBS show is following around CJ for one day and the access in the title presumably
0:45.6	refers to the access they're given to CJ. But I think there's also some level to it about
0:50.9	CJ's access to the truth and to the president and all the things that she sometimes
0:55.6	left out of.
0:56.6	Are we witnessing an impromptu renopsis?
0:58.8	I'm winging it.
1:00.2	Damn. Nice.
1:02.2	As the episode unfolds, there's a standoff with the FBI on an island off of the coast
1:07.7	of Washington State. And it brings up flashbacks from a time before the West Wing series started
1:16.0	a crisis that happened in the early days of the Bartlett administration at the Casey
1:20.3	Creek.
1:21.3	This one is a weird one.
1:23.6	It is a weird one. And notoriously, I think among the fandom, advise for the title of
1:29.7	worst episode of the West Wing.
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