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The West Wing: Freedonia (2005)
The perfect campaign episode
So I do not understand why people sometimes refer to the post-Sorkin seasons as weaker. This season really did it for me, especially the campaign arc which has been written and executed almost perfectly so far. It emotionally peaked for me here, at Santos' first little breakthrough making it this season's first ten point episode for me.
At its core it is what the whole series has always been about: Political utopia of what if politics could be done right. The best episodes of the series make us believe in that or at least they make us want to believe it could happen as depicted and as soon as Santos rips away the microphone after his one minute last shot of air time, you'll find yourself in that place again. The fact that this moment is not induced by Jed Bartlet but by someone who aspires to replace him convinced me for the first time that someone actually could fill his shoes. I found this so good it made me want to skip the next white house arc episode which I won't of course.