Two solid, if not standout, episodes! But one of my season favs is coming up next.
Josh’s line about not knowing the value of being outside, sitting on a sloop with four friends after three months indoors elicited a snort of ‘Oh, JOSHUA, you have no idea, pet.’
I've seen SO many gifsets of that scene in the past year, understandably. TWW, still relevant all these years later!
Your thoughts are very similar to my own on the subject of therapy and processing trauma inside the White House in this ep - The Midterms has always felt like one of the weaker episodes of the season to me, partially for these reasons. On one hand, people in these positions of power really don't want to admit to or accommodate any weaknesses. On the other, it makes them really unhealthy, and often harsh or cold to each other, like you pointed out with the President and Toby, or MacIntosh and Charlie. At least it's not the last of it we'll see this season.
it helped Charlie make up for avoiding Zoey (IIRC things didn’t work out between them, but I was struck with a wish for futurefic where they came across each other and acknowledged that the other had been a postitve part of their lives.)
Spoiler alert!! But their relationship status is actually left ambiguous at the end of the series and is a matter of some debate in the fandom. I always liked them a lot too.
I did feel that the final moment with Sam stealing that radio host’s food was a bit much.
Nah, she didn't deserve that crab puff. That scene is conflicting for me, because on one hand, she's such a strawman stock evil, sanctimonious republican just set up for a beatdown - but on the other, the beatdown is so satisfying. I can't be mad at it.
Josh and Toby’s glee was predictable, if absurd and sexist, surely the point shouldn’t be Sam got beat by ‘a girl’, but the argument, but they didn’t really address that.
Yeah, I hate that bit, and I hate that "Ginger, get the popcorn!" is one of the most well-known and memeable lines of the series since I know what it refers to. Oh no, not a girl. CJ should have kicked their asses.
showing that Ainsley’s Republican friends were just as guilty of tackling the players not the ball as out senior staff (I see your American sports metaphors and raise them a rugby one)
Gonna be honest here and admit I read it as an American football metaphor until I got to 'rugby' cause well, Americans gonna American. Oops. It is a good metaphor though!
Also agreed with the points on Ainsley being allowed to wander the whole West Wing as she pleases. I amuse myself by thinking of all the different things and people Margaret's been waylaid by in order to let Ainsley escape her supervision over and over, because it makes no sense at all.
I was probably more puzzled over CJ’s worries about how much she’d misspoken to the cub reporter than an American viewer might be.
Nope, the whole 'who can say what about grand jury proceedings and when' thing is baffling to me too. Pretty sure it's just there to give Ainsley a human moment (and to make an excellent joke about CJ getting lost on the way to work).
Ainsley is a delight through and through, her gun control opinions aside. There's such good stuff coming up!
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Josh’s line about not knowing the value of being outside, sitting on a sloop with four friends after three months indoors elicited a snort of ‘Oh, JOSHUA, you have no idea, pet.’
I've seen SO many gifsets of that scene in the past year, understandably. TWW, still relevant all these years later!
Your thoughts are very similar to my own on the subject of therapy and processing trauma inside the White House in this ep - The Midterms has always felt like one of the weaker episodes of the season to me, partially for these reasons. On one hand, people in these positions of power really don't want to admit to or accommodate any weaknesses. On the other, it makes them really unhealthy, and often harsh or cold to each other, like you pointed out with the President and Toby, or MacIntosh and Charlie. At least it's not the last of it we'll see this season.
it helped Charlie make up for avoiding Zoey (IIRC things didn’t work out between them, but I was struck with a wish for futurefic where they came across each other and acknowledged that the other had been a postitve part of their lives.)
Spoiler alert!! But their relationship status is actually left ambiguous at the end of the series and is a matter of some debate in the fandom. I always liked them a lot too.
I did feel that the final moment with Sam stealing that radio host’s food was a bit much.
Nah, she didn't deserve that crab puff. That scene is conflicting for me, because on one hand, she's such a strawman stock evil, sanctimonious republican just set up for a beatdown - but on the other, the beatdown is so satisfying. I can't be mad at it.
Josh and Toby’s glee was predictable, if absurd and sexist, surely the point shouldn’t be Sam got beat by ‘a girl’, but the argument, but they didn’t really address that.
Yeah, I hate that bit, and I hate that "Ginger, get the popcorn!" is one of the most well-known and memeable lines of the series since I know what it refers to. Oh no, not a girl. CJ should have kicked their asses.
showing that Ainsley’s Republican friends were just as guilty of tackling the players not the ball as out senior staff (I see your American sports metaphors and raise them a rugby one)
Gonna be honest here and admit I read it as an American football metaphor until I got to 'rugby' cause well, Americans gonna American. Oops. It is a good metaphor though!
Also agreed with the points on Ainsley being allowed to wander the whole West Wing as she pleases. I amuse myself by thinking of all the different things and people Margaret's been waylaid by in order to let Ainsley escape her supervision over and over, because it makes no sense at all.
I was probably more puzzled over CJ’s worries about how much she’d misspoken to the cub reporter than an American viewer might be.
Nope, the whole 'who can say what about grand jury proceedings and when' thing is baffling to me too. Pretty sure it's just there to give Ainsley a human moment (and to make an excellent joke about CJ getting lost on the way to work).
Ainsley is a delight through and through, her gun control opinions aside. There's such good stuff coming up!