你要是还没看过《白宫风云》第三季，真的可以补一补。适合喜欢《纸牌屋》但嫌它太阴郁的观众，也适合那些对“西装革履的工作日常”如何拍出热血感感到好奇的人。这一季尤其让人揪心的是副总统遭遇枪击后，整个团队一边硬撑危机公关，一边在休息室里偷偷崩溃。这一季里有一集讲白宫内部搞预算扯皮，几个人关起门来你一句我一句，愣是让人看得手心冒汗。它不像一般政治剧那么苦大仇深，办公室日常里夹着幽默和温情，一群人为了屁大点事争得面红耳赤，转头又一起喝咖啡，特别真实。适合偏爱文本密度、不愿看脸谱化政客的观众，也适合想理解“理想主义如何在与体制的摩擦中幸存”的剧迷。

　　Season 3: 2001–2002
　　Cast: Rob Lowe, Stockard Channing, Dulé Hill, Allison Janney, Janel Moloney, Richard Schiff, John Spencer, Bradley Whitford and Martin Sheen
　　The third season, which covers the administration's third and fourth years in office, starts off with Bartlet announcing his intention to run for reelection and is heavily devoted to the upcoming presidential election. Other prominent plotlines include Congressional investigations into whether Bartlet committed electoral fraud by concealing his MS, a death threat against C.J. and the ensuing relationship she develops with a Secret Service agent assigned to her, the Qumari defense minister Abdul Shareef plotting terrorist attacks against the US, and a troubling meeting between Toby and the President that leaves Bartlet with a bout of insomnia in "Night Five." The season finale, "Posse Comitatus" closes several of these storylines as Bartlet meets his opponent in the elections and reaffirms his commitment to beat him. The episode ends with the president finally deciding to order Shareef's assassination (a legally questionable act) and C.J.'s agent's murder, just after the man threatening C.J. was caught.
　　From a critical perspective, series creator Aaron Sorkin acknowledged in October 2002 that the terrorism-related plots designed to keep the series relevant after the real-life 9/11 attacks were awkward at times, saying "from week to week, you felt like you were writing the show handcuffed, a little bit. I didn't know how to write it anymore. It was a constant search for what I wasn't doing that used to make the show work. [...] Maybe there was a way to make it work; there probably was. I wasn't able to find it in twenty-two episodes." [1] Nonetheless, the show went on to win its third "Outstanding Drama" Emmy in a row.

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