'Have I displeased you, you feckless thug?'
Aaron Sorkin wove no shortage of jaw-dropping surprises into his four seasons of The West Wing, still the writer's perennial accomplishment when it comes to American television. There's the assassination attempt in the Season 1 finale, for one, the three-seasons-long ricochet effect of President Jed Bartlet concealing his multiple sclerosis, the kidnapping of his daughter Zoe to close out Sorkin's run on the show... we could go on.
The concept took hold during an impromptu chat between Sorkin and Kathryn Joosten. The actress said she had an audition lined up for another series. "As soon as she told me that," Sorkin shared with The West Wing Weekly podcast in 2017, "I really stopped listening to everything else she was saying after that and just began thinking - how would I write Mrs. Landingham off the show? [...
This 'The West Wing' Episode Showed a Different Side of Jed Mrs. Landingham's death almost never happened, but Sorkin accomplished it with peak writing on overdrive. "18th and Potomac" and "Two Cathedrals" are the most quintessentially Sorkin tableaus of Sorkin tableaus. The West Wing's established history of characters snarking about innocuous things let Sorkin organically slide in the signposts for Mrs. Landingham's sudden, tragic passing.
Isn't that an understatement? Very little tops Sheen’s towering, Shakespearean delivery of that speech nor how the camera framing takes advantage of the Cathedral's immense size to visually oppress Jed. The President of the United States has run headlong into the one true thing he can't control, which is a loved one's death. As he crosses the Cathedral floor, Jed subsumes God's space within the frame even though he's emotionally defeated.
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