Watch FALCON CREST on IMDB TV now and see another powerful lady character. Angela Channing (Jane Wyman) is CJ's equal.

Hell yeah!

What? You're crazy. Wonder Woman is way stronger!

I would suggest Babylon 5. Theres a few in there you would love.

I would compare her to Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan. Strength, along with vulnerability, magnificently balanced.

Amen!

Role of a lifetime

I agree with Allison's ownership of this role but prez? "I had woot canowww". 🤪

...CJ Craig running for office would be an incredible way to reboot The West Wing. I imagine Toby convincing her to run in Ohio, wherevshes from. Being the Leo to her Jed in some congressional race to give the democrats the senate or something. Hell it writes itself.

Honestly, story-wise, the one I would expect is Sam. Unfortunately Rob Lowe is kind of a mess...

You mean 7 time sag awards and 7 time critics choice awards

@@siddharthnaagar7028 - Those too.......

And bafta and Oscar, for I Tonya. Plus her Emmys for mom

​@@markdaly1648 She should have won a Grammy for The Jackal.

@@Elthenar Milli Vanilli award?

Oh the best laugh for sure.. love her

God, I’d just settle for sanity

Bartlett for President 2020

It was kinda of a lame administration

omg yes! I have been binge watching West Wing ever since 2016 and our descent into hell. It's a reassuring step into a world with a real presidency.

Go back and watch the series with a more critical eye. The members of the Bartlett administration were every bit as cutthroat, manipulative, and dirty politics as real life, but they were written so well that you became invested in THEM and didn’t notice it when offered amnesty to illegals to get more votes, or used back room deals to stack the federal elections commission, or backstab a fellow democrat to score political points. While I LOVED the show, I think it gave a false sense of well-being of the Democratic Party.

David Pietarila yes I sense your concern for the well-being of the Democratic Party when you talk about ‘amnesty for illegals’. #nopersonisillegal

@@benrichey2593unless you come in and go through the correct channels like my aunt did from Poland for 14 years prior to attaining her citizenship you are in fact illegal. Don’t like it, take it up with our federal laws. Otherwise passports are meaningless so try traveling to other countries including getting into ours without one (without crossing the Rio Grande river).

I watched a scene out of West Wing when Goodman became president due to the 25th amendment and thought clearly Biden is in it for himself, or OBiden ; otherwise the 25th would not only have been in the table a long time ago it would have already happened.

If they ever reboot the series, I hope she's the President.

it looks like an extra on the season 7 DVD

Allison Janney was excellent in the play Enter Laughing with Frank Langella, she was super in the film Ice Storm, and you all know how criminally super she was in The West Wing. Aside from the financial incentive of doing the show Mom, it drives me nuts that she's in the show. She rarely has a good script to work from, and it goes downhill from there. I'd love for someone to write a James Burrows-directed sitcom(like Frasier, Cheers, etc) for her, if we can't get Aaron Sorkin to put together a reboot of TWW.

Emmy : It hurts to see John in these DVD Extras touting Allison along with scenes from after his passing. It's tough to watch sometimes, both so great in the series. RIP John. :(

I agree it's sad every time I see John Spencer, Leo was such a good character. CJ was a worthy replacement

I’m not at all sure why it’s sad to see him. It makes me happy to see him, it brings back such good memories of good performances from the best show ever written. Thank you all🙏🏻

@@jillom6648 Because I was so upset he didn’t live to the end of the series. I saw the episode where Leo has a heart attack after John Spencer had died of a heart attack, it was so well acted but too real

Yes and no. They fully support her, they think she can do it, but they feel totally uncomfortable, what is very logic since Josh was left "frozen" in his position, and Toby was lowered! Ridiculous, that would never happen in real life without both of them quitting. And something similar happened.. Josh will resign shortly, and the authors didn´t know what to do with Toby, at the point to write a ridiculous plot that made the actor (!) resigned...

I will never understand that. She went from disemminating information and spin to making policy, foreign delegations etc. It made no sense. TWW promoting Toby would have made more sense and Toby's role is highly fictional since communication directors don't help steer policy, he'd head speech writer. Just bizarre.

@@VerbalEnigma Totally agree: Ridiculous, that would never happen in real life without both of them quitting. And something similar happened.. Josh will resign shortly, and the authors didn´t know what to do with Toby, at the point to write a ridiculous plot that made the actor (!) resigned...

Well, maybe the NEW administration will do that...

So many of us do.

One of the few shows in the history of television that had the perfect cast ensemble and brilliant writing.

Bartlett for President 2020

And.... It. Just. Keeps. Getting. Worse.

Depressing for who? My life is going pretty well

@@irish_soldier1248 - Well then, if YOUR life is going well... what the heck else matters? 225,000 families mourning the loss of loved ones, minorities in an uproar because their lives are less valued than yours, over 3,000,000 people’s lives affected by job loss, lower incomes, medical expenses, etc., but ehh... your fine, then everything’s great! 😳 Seriously?

@@irish_soldier1248 Good for you and enjoy, as I believe you only get one run at it.

I have to disagee. We got five years, and then the last two were ... as much as I love Alan Alda, not even he could save the west wing when every episode became the same story over and over.

Yes. It is mine too. If you haven't listened to the West Wing Weekly podcasts you need to!

Well! Fancy meeting you here, Ro. I often find myself thinking of what the Biden administration will look like. Because, once this whole thing is over, a lot of people will be updating their resumes...and looking for lawyers.

i would vote for the grinder

IKR? Sometimes after I hear her speak, I have to jump over to Netflix just so CJ can restore balance to my brain!!!

this - this is what I think every time I hear SHS speak

@Jim Dandy Really? You think that being in the state we now exist in is preferable to an Aaron Sorkin produced fictional TV show about how the American administration might be portrayed is okay? Preferable? Better? You like Trump, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, McConnell, Lindsey Graham and so on? Allow me to express my contempt for you and the thirty seven percenters who show up in polls that support trump that I call Dumb and Dumber. I'll take children over dumb and dumber every day.

You'd be floored by what is trotted it out now a days LMAO

Bartlett for President 2020

hope he is doing better by now

Every Memorial Day weekend I open up the West Wing DVD box set and binge watch. My wife accompanied me during one of these binges. After that she will only join me on the couch if I promise not to mansplain things in the show. I promised. However, and you should have guessed there would be a however, I did quiz her on things. How many electoral votes needed to win? If the two Senators from each state account for 100 electoral votes and the 435 members of the House account for 435 electoral votes, where do the remaining 3 electoral votes needed to make up the 538 electoral votes (538/2=269)+1=270 electoral votes needed to win, come from? After 8 years of this I've run out of questions and she still holds me to the mansplaining promise. Not sure who won.

@@stevenbennett3805 This reply makes me smile :) It's such a touchy subject lately, but I'm a Republican who adores this show and honestly, I know Bartlet is a Democrat, but the show is so well written, there is hardly any proof they are either R or D. I saw this "Reaction" video the other day of a guy doing a reaction to the Gap Band's Party Train video... he's black and was loving the video and stopped it, misty eyed and in awe and said " Look at that diversity ! " ( referring to the crowds in the video and how everyone was getting along.... I felt so sorry for him and for the younger ones today. That is how we were ! That's how I grew up ! Even in the south, there was NO racial bs . We just had fun together and all that. I won't attack any person for their political beliefs but I do know one thing, and no pundit or MSM told me to think this. This is not the same Democratic party I grew up with. It's not near the same as is portrayed in the WW. It just breaks my heart that the further we get away from the racial tensions in the 60s and such..... it seems we're regressing instead of progressing.

It's been 3 months since I binged this show, 3 months to long. Time to sit back an enjoy

But you'll laugh and cry and remember what it is like to be inspired by an administration.

Allison Janney got an Oscar for I, Tonya, but CJ got her 6 Emmy nominations and 4 wins. Best Supporting Actress in a Drama in 2000 and 2001, Best Actress in a Drama 2002 and 2004.

But why would Bartlett ever want to take McNally off of her job? I don't even think McaNally's character would take the job

It's a good scene. I just dislike how she went to get the towel without any problems but then forgot where her house was five seconds later.