EPISODE
SEASON
The West Wing - Season 4
Season 4 opens with Josh, Toby and Donna being left behind by the presidential motorcade and must work their way across the state with the help of the farmer's daughter and, later, a teenage campaign volunteer, enduring many setbacks along the way.
23 February 1953
11 June 1940, Athens, Georgia, USA
2 August 1972, Mount Kisco, New York, USA
17 December 1930, Tilsit, East Prussia, Germany [now Sovetsk, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia]
1 September 1953, Charleston, South Carolina, USA
6 March 1982, Albany, New York, USA
June 27, 2018
Sorkin and his directors are certainly good at sustaining a kind of organized chaos, yet the reelection arc that opens the fourth series... sharpens the general sense of everyday urgency, starting the season off with a pleasant rush.
June 27, 2018
Mr. Sorkin, moreover, leaves his successors with something that President Bush's aides never faced when Bill Clinton left office: a dignified exit.
June 27, 2018
Characters on this show behave like normal people with super demanding jobs. They let things fester, brewing below the surface, suppressed from years of putting the needs of a nation before their own.
June 27, 2018
Tension wasn't present at the debate... The same could be said for the new season of The West Wing.
June 27, 2018
Season four is actually pretty great up through the election, and then everybody forgets to have ideas for episodes and Sam gets written off as an afterthought...
