This week on The Essentials, Mallory, Esra, and Gina wind back the clock to 1999 to talk about The West Wing. Mallory shares about the comfort of rewatching a favorite show and waxes on how real life and fiction intertwined; Esra laments how poor her history teachers were and how the show was surprising; Gina wrestles with mixed feelings. Full transcript and other supplemental links.

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