. . . The candidates seem plastic in some ways compared to him. He seems more human."
Sorkin's Emmy Award-winning series has been hailed as one of the finest dramatic hours on television, and Sorkin was the moving force behind it for four years, from its inception in 1999 to 2003, when he decided to leave to pursue other work in film, television, and theater. Alessandra Stanley, writing in the New York Times about Sorkin's departure from the show, said that the series had always been noted for its high-mindedness. "Idealism was the sex of The West Wing," Stanley wrote, "an elan vital that drove even small-minded people to do mad acts of ethics. It was the most romantic show on television." With Sorkin's departure, Stanley conjectured, that would most likely change. But the final episode of the fourth season maintained his signature. "Mr. Sorkin's West Wing ends the way it began, with honor, not lust, quickening the pulses of his characters." And amazingly, during his four years on the show, every script but one was written by Sorkin, a situation virtually unheard of in television where team-writing is the rule. In 2002 Sorkin was honored with an Emmy for outstanding writing for the series.
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