West Wing 3.09

The Women of Qumar

Josh meets with Amy Gardner (Mary Louise Parker), the head of the Women's Leadership Coalition, at the the First Lady's request. Dr, Bartlett is concerned about the new treaty with Qumar, a country where women are treated very poorly and to which the United States has just sold arms. I think Ms. Gardener is going to be something of a regular on the show, based on what I am reading seeing on IMBD, at least for this season and the next one. By the end of the episode it looks like olitics are getting set aside and their may be some romance blooming between Josh and Amy.

CJ is flipping mad about the US treaty with Qumar and goes out of her way to let everybody know including the representatives of a veterans' group who are their to talk to Toby. This doesn't really get resolved although CJ does have an interesting chat towards the end of the episode with Nancy McNally, the National Security Adviser, on the topic of the treaty with Qumar.

The C plot has to do with the treat of Mad Cow disease and how it should be handled. Everyone seems to be opposed to telling the public about it except CJ. She doesn't make any headway in convincing the President until the end of the episode when she lays out her case for leveling with the American people.

It had been over a year since I last watched West Wing. I put the show on pause in Oct 2015 and I'm just getting back to it now. I'm not sure why it took so long but I'm glad I decided to tune back in. This was by no means a perfect episode but it was a very good one.