亚当(本·威士肖 Ben Whishaw 饰)是一名在公立医院里行医的妇产科医生,在公立医院里,无论是医疗设备还是人员配给都要远远糟于私立医院,在这里,亚当不仅要面对无休无止的加班,还要和刁钻苛刻的病人斗智斗勇,长期都处在巨大的压力之下。但幸运的是,在医院里,亚当还是交 了一些朋友,比如初出茅庐的实习医生姝娣(安比卡·茂德 Ambika Mod 饰)。
伍德(马克思·比斯雷 Max Beesley 饰)、奎因(菲利普·格伦尼斯特 Philip Glenister 饰)、巴克斯特(约翰·西姆 John Simm 饰)和瑞克(马克·沃伦 Marc Warren 饰)是四个相识多年的好友,如今四人即将齐齐迈入四十岁的大关,在这道坎面前,每个人的心中都五味杂陈。
就在此时,四人久未谋面的好友艾尔沃(本·卓别林 Ben Chaplin 饰)向他们发来了热情的邀请函,邀请他们前往自己位于马略卡岛的奢华别墅之中度假,这等好事怎可放过?四人欣然前往。然而,此时的四人并不知道的是,这个本该充满了温馨回忆的舒适聚会,竟然转变成为了一个令他们焦头烂额的巨大灾难,使得整个岛屿都散发着阴谋的味道。
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.