Current lockdown status: tearing up at every other scene in my West Wing rewatch.

Jesus Christ every single episode. Sorkin is an emotionally manipulative wizard.

Mrs Landingham talking about her dead sons and Toby arranging the homeless Korean war vet's funeral in the same episode is just cruel. Total mess here.

Fascinating reminder of how much media has changed in the last 20 years when CJ says a big story will break tomorrow because it's on the internet. As opposed to that being the story breaking.

Also fascinating that it takes them 3 days to get a poll with 1500 responses. And that the Daily Mirror - the British one - would apparently pay the equivalent of £85k for a picture of the White House deputy comms director with a prostitute.

Upgrading "17 People" to top ten episode status. Superb performances from Richard Schiff, John Spencer and Martin Sheen.

I have rarely identified as strong with a character in a TV series as when Babbish says "in my entire life I've never found anything charming".

So weird watching the MS episodes and seeing all these politicians actually care about whether they're telling the truth or not. Seems so quaint.

Gearing up to watch Two Cathedrals and I'm tearing up pre-emptively. Don't even need to watch the damn thing.

Man this line from Bartlet in Series 3 feels precisent.

"The most costly disruptions always happen when something we take completely for granted stops working."

"The public will not forgive a President who withheld information that could've helped them or saved lives. Second in a crisis people need to feel like soldiers not victims. Third information breeds confidence. Silence breeds fear."

CJ understands crisis comms better than BJ.