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S1E01 - Pilot: When Did You Know You Were In?
Let's go all the way back to where it started.
For those of us who've watched The West Wing more times than we'd care to admit (yes, I'm wearing a muumuu and chain-smoking Parliaments right now), it's easy to forget what that first episode felt like.
So think back to your first viewing of “Pilot.”
Was there a particular scene, line, character entrance, or walk-and-talk where you thought:
Oh. I'm going to like this show.
Was it Sam and Leo?
C.J. falling off the treadmill?
Josh being Josh?
The President's entrance?
Or did it actually take you several episodes before the show got you?
When did The West Wing hook you?
(⚠️ First-time watchers are in the Club, so please mark later-series spoilers.)