The West Wing
TV Show • 1999 • Drama
ReportThe West Wing provides a glimpse into presidential politics in the nation's capital as it tells the stories of the members of a fictional presidential administration. These interesting characters have humor and dedication that touches the heart while the politics that they discuss touch on everyday life.
This tv show contains 33 potentially triggering events.
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Does someone attempt suicide?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
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Abuse
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Flashbacks to one of the main characters being bullied by their father.
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A young woman is drugged by her boyfriend while at a party
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Addiction
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Geochemist
Leo had a drug problem(Valium) , the president uses Rx's( beta-seron(sp?) vicodin, and oxycodone , as does CJ (root canal), Josh (post being shot).
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MaxineHeintz
Leo is portrayed as being previously addicted to Valium and alcohol.
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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Geochemist
Several episodes deal with Leo's drug and alcohol abuse, including seeing it in a flash back.
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Are there snakes?
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There is a snake offscreen in "Manchester", and Leo threatens to hide snakes in CJ's car in "Guns Not Butter", but nothing on camera.
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Does a woman get slapped?
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Is rape mentioned?
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It’s alluded to that one of the main characters has been sexually assaulted by another recurring character
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Does someone break a bone?
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SPOILER:
Donna is in a car that gets blown up while visiting Gaza; when Josh speaks to her doctor he mentions that Donna has broken her leg in two places. For the first few episodes of season 6 she is then seen in a wheelchair or a cast and crutches.
Note that while her leg is discussed, along with other injuries, we only ever see a cast (no x-rays)
Donna is in a car that gets blown up while visiting Gaza; when Josh speaks to her doctor he mentions that Donna has broken her leg in two places. For the first few episodes of season 6 she is then seen in a wheelchair or a cast and crutches.
Note that while her leg is discussed, along with other injuries, we only ever see a cast (no x-rays)
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Geochemist
Off screen discussion of at hate crime and murder of a teenager.
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Death
Does a major character die?
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Miaiam
In the final season, the president’s chief of staff, one of the most focused on characters in the show, dies suddenly due to his actor also dying and the show needing to address it in some way
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Does someone die?
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thunderdone
S2
E21
Off screen, a major character dies in an unshown car accident. Episode 22 shows specifically her funeral and the aftermath of her death emotionally for Jed.
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Family
Does a parent die?
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JohnOBrien
One of the main characters loses his father. We are told that another's mother was killed in the line of duty.
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Is a child's toy destroyed?
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SamSan
Off screen: POTUS describes how a fringe group sent a doll with a knife stuck through it to his granddaughter
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Is someone kidnapped?
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Geochemist
Zoey Bartlett in the last episode of season 4, resolved in season 5 e 1
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Does someone cheat?
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Geochemist
Notably Sam's dad.
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S1 E7 Mandy says I’m going to throw up and rushes off screen around 26 mins in but you don’t see anything
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Mental Health
Does someone have a mental illness?
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A character has PTSD
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Geochemist
Josh injures himself with glass.
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Is there autism specific abuse?
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GraceThome
No autism-specific abuse shown on screen, but there is a whole episode where a Senator stages a filibuster because he wants funding to "fight autism." The senator calls autism a "health issue," incorrectly claims that autism misdiagnosis numbers are high, and compares autism to Alzheimer's, glaucoma, and erectile dysfunction.
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Are there anxiety attacks?
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Josh also deals with PTSD as a result of being shot.
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JohnOBrien
There is mention of a young man dying by suicide in "The Benign Prerogative". We also learn that Leo's father and Toby's brother die by suicide as well, and a pilot deliberately crashes his airplane in another episode.
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Are there flashing lights or images?
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Geochemist
Seen in season 4 last episode in the club seen(s).
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A character is shown going into labor, and later at the hospital
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Are there abortions?
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Several discussions of abortion in a number of episodes. No abortions seen.
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A bar scene in "Mr. Willis of Ohio"
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Is there ableist language or behavior?
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Anti-autistic rhetoric in The Stackhouse Filibuster (S2:E17)
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An antisemitic comment is made toward Josh, with Toby being the one to call it out as being antisemitic. It's a key turning point to the episode. Overall, the series is outspoken opposing antisemitism when it arises, usually in reference to Toby or Josh.
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Does an LGBT person die?
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Discussion of offscreen hate crime towards a gay teenager, who later dies in the hospital as a result.
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Does the black guy die first?
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Admiral Morris, one of the President's physicians, dies in a plane crash early in the series.
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Religious
Is religion discussed?
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Corellon
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Fussy fundamentalists
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Sex
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Sickness
Does someone have a chronic illness?
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thunderdone
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E18
It's a large plot point throughout season 2 and 3 that a major character has hidden the fact that he has MS. While this is directly stated by his wife in the first episode of Season 2, the situation magnifies over the course of the season. At Episode 18, it becomes a nationwide scandal as he begins to admit to it, first to the staff of the white house, and then the nation at large.
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Is someone homeless?
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Anonymous
In season one a homeless man dies
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Are there anti-abortion themes?
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Miaiam
The issue of abortion is discussed repeatedly throughout the show, with the general consensus being that while many major characters are not comfortable with it, people should be allowed to make their own choices
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Does it have a sad ending?
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Geochemist
This depends on how you interpret.
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Vehicular
Does a car crash?
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JohnOBrien
A character is killed in an off screen car crash in "18th and Potomac". A car is shown being flipped by a roadside bomb in "Gaza"
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Does a plane crash?
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JohnOBrien
A plane is shot down in both "Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc" and "What Kind of Day Has It Been". A pilot crashes his own plane in "Noël"
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Is someone hit by a car?
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MaxineHeintz
A supporting character is killed by a drunk driver in the episode "Two Cathedrals"
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Is there blood/gore?
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Anonymous
SPOILERS
Probably the most graphic part is when Josh is shot; they show him in surgery later in several scenes
Season 6 after Leo has his heart attack, he is shown in surgery. This is graphic but very quick .
Donna and two congressmen as well as Admiral Fitzwallis are in a vehicle which explodes while visiting Gaza; Donna is later mentioned to have a compound fracture in her leg and is shown with scratches on her face. The leg is not seen.
Probably the most graphic part is when Josh is shot; they show him in surgery later in several scenes
Season 6 after Leo has his heart attack, he is shown in surgery. This is graphic but very quick .
Donna and two congressmen as well as Admiral Fitzwallis are in a vehicle which explodes while visiting Gaza; Donna is later mentioned to have a compound fracture in her leg and is shown with scratches on her face. The leg is not seen.
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Is there a nuclear explosion?
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JohnOBrien
No, but there is risk of a nuclear meltdown in one episode.
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Is there gun violence?
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Buttercup01
The most notable incident is S1E22 continued into S2E1 when multiple gunmen shoot at the president and his staff.
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