Quite possibly my favourite one hour done in one episode ever. It is the season 3 premiere of The West Wing.
A few things about it. It was made in two weeks. Two weeks following the September 11th terrorist attacks and was a counter-attack to the people baying for bloody revenge, and also wasn't. As a single episode of a show, it introduces all the characters as if for the first time.
There is an A story and a B story. There are very few sets, and they oppose one another. One that is trying to make sense and differentiate a religion versus extremism and another trying to quickly find whether a staff member of the white house is a terrorist by linking relgion and terrorism together.
There is resolution. People come to their senses. The guy who aggressively tries to dins out if the staff member is a muslin returns and basically says he over reacted. People did over react or did they. Catastrophic tragedies have huge backlashes, somewhere to drive their sometimes misjudged or uncontrolled emotions.
It doesn't spend much money. You could only see that episode and never see the rest of the show. Just track it down and watch it.
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