7.01: The Ticket

The West Wing Weekly

Joshua Malina & Hrishikesh Hirway

Tv & Film

4.9 • 12.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2019

⏱️ 54 minutes

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It’s the Season 7 premiere! Which begins, naturally, with a scene from the Season 10 premiere! Suspense hovers over this episode, like a space station in need of maintenance—or a baker about to be sent home from the tent—as Josh and Hrishi sort through both the wise and foolish acts of our heroes.

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0:00.0	You're listening to The West Wing Weekly. I'm Rishi K. Sherway. And I'm Joshua Molina.
0:10.6	Welcome to season seven. Yee-haw! Is this the home stretch? Are we calling this the home
0:14.8	stretch, or am I, is it premature? I think maybe too early to call the home stretch, right?
0:19.6	Okay, fair enough. Today we're talking about the ticket. It's the season premiere of season
0:24.8	seven. It was written by Debra Conn. It was directed by Christopher Mizziano. And it first aired on
0:30.3	September 25th, 2005. How about that? This is the first season premiere that was ever written
0:37.2	by someone other than the showrunner. Oh, how about that? Interesting. Yeah, congratulations to Debra Conn.
0:43.1	Well done. In this episode, it's four days after the events of the season six finale and the
0:48.4	Democratic convention. Things are off to a rocky start for the brand new Santos Maguery campaign,
0:53.2	the titular ticket. And inside the White House, they're investigating the leak of the top secret
0:58.0	military space shuttle that's now off to rescue the astronauts in the space station. The campaign
1:03.0	in the White House have some trouble coordinating their individual needs into a unified plan,
1:06.9	which is exactly what the Republican speaker of the House wants. But before we get to all of that,
1:11.2	we start with the time jump to three years later. Yeah, how about that? What the hell?
1:17.2	Yeah, that was my reaction. I remember shooting that scene. And in my mind, it was part of the finale.
1:26.4	I didn't recall that it was part of the season opener. Why? Whatever for? I don't know. I'm very
1:35.1	against it. I was not a big fan either. It's not also incredibly revelatory. No, it feels like
1:42.0	they're raining on the parade of anticipation that we might feel as the show heads towards the finale.
1:48.0	Right. And there's nothing particular that's teased there. I think that makes us intrigued by
1:54.4	how we're going to get there. Right. It's not like someone's got a gun to their head. And it's a
2:00.1	crazy action-packed, immediate res thing that would drop into. And then we have to figure out how
2:05.3	do they get to that place? And then how are they going to get out? Right. It's a very little
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