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I love the West Wing, even though it went down downhill a bit when Aaron Sorkin left after season four. But this episode, with its coy attempt to show us how the WW staffers function behind-the-scenes via this silly documentary device, is preposterous. It's really unwatchable! I cringed constantly. I want to see these characters acting like we normally see them in an episode, not in this ersatz documentary, with bogus gorilla camera angles, and surreptitiously recorded conversations. This is just such an awful idea for an episode.

Just skip this episode and keep watching. The rest of the series is much better.