While Sorkin was still with the show, they'd periodically talk about how they'd been convinced he was a good screenwriter up until they started doing this. Lots of nuts-and-bolts of cinematography in the discourse. I really enjoyed that, just because hearing from two writers how to do good writing was fun.

Then Sorkin left, and there was just less and less to talk about. You were just kinda left with whatever crap Lawrence O'Donnell slathered on the screen. The second-to-last episode really was just "Man, epic senioritis. They're just phoning it all in. Oh well, anyways..."