Completing the challenges and struggles where the last season stops that follows the staff of the West Wing members in the White House, who struggle against balancing between their personal and professional life. In this new season, Josh and Toy want to make the university more cheaper.
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.
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.
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...