中流击水

　　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.

　　《兄弟姐妹》是一部由制片人Ken Olin和Jon Robin Baitz导演的电视剧。住在洛杉矶的沃克一家是一个传统的美国家庭，成年的兄弟姐妹们包括莎拉·威顿，汤米·沃克，凯文·沃克，贾斯汀·沃克和凯蒂·沃克。他们都很努力的去实现父母期望。剧中同时也涉及其他许多人的生活，比如诺拉的哥哥索尔·霍顿，汤米的妻子朱莉娅·沃克，凯文的亲密伴侣斯科特还有神秘的赫莉·海派尔及其女儿瑞贝卡·海派尔。一大家子的人每天都努力的生活。
　　Brothers and Sisters 的取材角度正是当今美国人生活中最困惑的地方－－总是面临各种压力、各种两难选择，总是想不断超越自我。Sarah(Rachel Griffiths)，一个事业成功的社团副总裁，为了事业和婚姻两不误，选择回到家族来打理生意；Tommy(Balthazar Getty)，对家族忠心耿耿，但是却喜欢整天偎翠依红，泡在温柔乡里；Kevin (Matthew Rhys)，律师，一个同性恋，对爱情总是小心谨慎；Justin (Dave Annable)，兄弟姐妹中的小弟弟，痛苦地与战争所带来的创伤和毒品做斗争；还有Kitty (Calista Flockhart)，右翼电台的主持人，电视评论家，总是父亲眼中的小姑娘。通过这些有趣的角色，本剧想要揭示究竟一个21世纪的美国家庭究竟什么最重要，家中的这些兄弟姐妹在平衡各自利益的前提下，又该如何处理好与父母的观念隔阂？
　　家族中的长辈是父亲William Walker(Tom Skerritt )和母亲Nora Holden(Sally Field)。父亲作为一家之长，一生颇具传奇色彩，他也是家族生意的总裁。母亲则是个固执己见的女人。其他角色包括：Saul Holden(Ron Rifkin)是Nora Holden的兄弟，一个花花公子；Joe(John Pyper-Ferguson)是大女儿Sarah的丈夫；Julia(Sarah Jane Morris)是Tommy的妻子；还有一个神秘女人(Patricia Wettig)试图整跨Walkers家族的生意。

　　創立122年を迎える私立百花王学園。
　　この伝統ある名門校で生徒の階級を決めるのは“ギャンブルの強さ”。
　　勝者には地位と名誉が与えられ、敗者は財産も尊厳も奪われる。
　　この学園に、一人の少女が転校してくる。彼女の名は蛇喰夢子。
　　一見するとお淑やかなこの美少女は、いかなるリスクもいとわない常軌を逸したギャンブル狂だった。
　　学園を支配する桃喰綺羅莉率いる生徒会は、夢子を危険な存在と判断し、百戦練磨の刺客たちを送りこむ。
　　壮絶な駆け引きと騙し合いを制したものだけが勝てる、究極の己を賭けた心理バトルが、さらに加速する―！