7.04: Mr. Frost

The West Wing Weekly

Joshua Malina & Hrishikesh Hirway

Tv & Film

4.9 • 12.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Joshua Malina and Hrishikesh Hirway (collectively, “The Hosts”) have been served a subpoena to appear on this episode of the podcast, to testify in regards to the above television episode. Pursuant to this agreement, you (“Listener”) are required to listen to our nonsense. Failure to do so may result in missing out on some dumb thing that gets called back later, like a reference to a 2004 movie about dance battles.

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0:00.0	You're listening to The West Wing Weekly. I'm Joshua Molina.
0:10.2	And I'm Rishi K. Sherway. Today we're talking about Mr. Frost. It's episode four from season
0:14.6	seven. It was written by Alex Graves. How about that? How about that? And it was directed
0:20.5	by Andrew Bernstein. Alex Graves, usually a director, first time writer, and executive producer,
0:26.7	and Andrew Bernstein was former first AD. And now this is I think his second episode that he's
0:32.6	directed. Right after 365 days. Great guy, terrific director. And also very cool to see Alex
0:39.3	flexing new muscles and writing an episode. This episode first aired on October 16th, 2005.
0:44.6	In this episode, there are three major storylines, which overlap in nice ways. First of all, there's
0:49.5	the continuation of the leak. Margaret testifies in front of the Senate committee. Everybody's gotten
0:54.3	subpoenaed. And Leo subpoena in particular is going to be very bad for the Santos campaign.
0:59.1	The second storyline is the Santos campaign. It's education week. And Santos discusses evolution
1:04.8	versus intelligent design in a way that trips up vinnick. Vinnick had been briefed by Mr. Frost
1:11.4	in a previous episode, who leads us to the third storyline, which is the assassination of
1:17.4	Palestinian chairman Farad. Yes. I thought it was nice. The way the three storylines intersected.
1:22.5	Sometimes we've talked about how the A plots and the B plots and C plots don't necessarily
1:27.4	feel like they're relevant to one another at all. This episode did a good job of tying
1:31.9	them all together. Yeah, I agree. I was up two minds with this episode, which I did think
1:36.2	it was a very good episode and well directed by Andrew. And I thought the dialogue by Alex
1:40.2	was great. But in terms of part of it felt to me like we didn't cover enough, not enough
1:46.2	ground was covered. Maybe it's because I know that it's a zero sum game and each of these
1:52.7	episodes brings us that much closer to the final. Well, I guess that's how every series
1:56.4	works. But I mean, the fact that it's the final season. And so each episode feels more
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