The Christmas episodes of ‘The West Wing’ are unremittingly bloody miserable…

Talk of ‘The West Wing’ as a series in decline is manifestly nonsense, at least on the evidence of 4.05 ‘Game On’. Equally, though, the reasons for the series being perceived as being in free fall are very easy to see.

Whether reports of a series lost in its own cleverness, and increasingly trapped by the incompatibility of its agenda and worldview with those of America at large these days, are true I have no idea right now.