混沌少年时第一季

　　有一种鸟，一生只为了追求一次完美的爱情。它的名字叫——青鸟。
　　一位平凡的车站站员，带着一位已嫁为人妇的年轻女子和一个天真的小女孩，展开一段“爱的逃亡之旅”，如此题材构成了这部唯美的爱情连续剧，一如片名“青鸟”所赋予人的浪漫遐想。此剧的导演利用电影拍摄手法来运镜，而制作小组更不惜花费半年以上的时间，将外景队从长野、秋田、一路延伸至青森、北海道、以至于鹿儿岛等地，可说是在外景拍摄上最花心思的一部偶像日剧。当然沿途各地的美景，也为此剧的浪漫色彩更添三分。

　　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.