The West Winger

The Next Three

It's taken this long to get through the Monday from hell to the good stuff: last night's The West Wing.

A last week of the campaign-ride plus the reappearance of Toby was the story. Taken together with the previews, here's what I figure we can expect in the next-- and final-- 3 episodes: next week is election day, and Matt Santos either wins outright or there's a year 2000 vote count problem (this possibility set up last night.) And it looks like Leo dies, but my guess is after the election. That would make it "making history," in that an elected v.p. would have to be replaced before being sworn in. What's the Constitutional mechanism for that? Would the outgoing President appoint him, with consent of the Senate?

And pretty obviously, That Couple (Josh and Donna) wind up in the sack after all these years.

So the last two eps may be partly about the vote count, but my guess is that they will largely be about the Bartlett White House, as it slips into history and off the air. The Bartlett White House is what the series always was about, and it's appropriate to end with it.