VEEP Season 4: Selina Meyer is President, God help us all.

Taramoor

Holy crap.

Zephyr_Fate

So many Seinfeld references in this episode.

Taramoor

A shame there are only like two episodes left in this season to explore the idea of the Vice President of the United States being pregnant.

The_Scarab

Zephyr_Fate wrote: »

Grisly/Grizzly Madam
She-Ra
Meyer the Liar
The Batcave
Pissface
Wicked Witch of the West Wing
Veepthroat
Voldemeyer
Dickless van Dyke
Tawdry Hepburn
Blunderwoman
Selina Meh
Vaselina
Betty Poop
Mammary Meyer

You just know they had a list five times this long. Like with the greetings puns at the end of that other episode. Ah, Christ has risen!

The Batcave is also a hilarious name. Though I don't think I've laughed as hard and as loudly at any other comedy this year as I have when he said Voldemeyer. It's so perfect. Like, that would actually be the name the real press would use if Selina was really the real world Veep.

It took three or four episodes to find its groove, but Veep is absolutely one of my favourite shows on at the moment. It's tremendous.

tinwhiskers

I love the Mike and Jonna/Dan exchanges. He's such a nice foil against the 2 of them, old lazy a bit gross. Wish they had kept the dog bit going a little longer.

Kasyn

I'm still enjoying the ever-loving shit out of this show. Is it possible to have 3 or 4 different favorite characters?

I will say however, I am incredibly skeptical about the storyline that the most recent episode brings up at the end. That plot can really hijack the show and I'd miss some of the more political goings-on if they get backseated to the soapy stuff.

Taramoor

Kasyn wrote: »

I'm still enjoying the ever-loving shit out of this show. Is it possible to have 3 or 4 different favorite characters?

I will say however, I am incredibly skeptical about the storyline that the most recent episode brings up at the end. That plot can really hijack the show and I'd miss some of the more political goings-on if they get backseated to the soapy stuff.

The political goings-on don't seem to have really mattered at any point. Take the Nicknames episode. There's that hilarious rush to get to the fiscal responsibility briefing, and then the next shot is them leaving the briefing. We never saw her speech to firefighters we just got a shot of her leaving in the motorcade. "So Mike's jokes didn't work?" "Yeah, firefighters are used to seeing people die, Amy, but not like that."

The policy seems completely unimportant to the show, just like it does to everybody else outside the Veep's office. They're at a briefing on some obesity thing and the reporter form the yogurt episode brings up the laughing secret service guy getting fired. Which is hilarious to me because I thought they were going to follow-up on the really dark meeting with the white power Republican Buddy Garrity guy.

Kasyn

Taramoor wrote: »

Kasyn wrote: »

I'm still enjoying the ever-loving shit out of this show. Is it possible to have 3 or 4 different favorite characters?

I will say however, I am incredibly skeptical about the storyline that the most recent episode brings up at the end. That plot can really hijack the show and I'd miss some of the more political goings-on if they get backseated to the soapy stuff.

The political goings-on don't seem to have really mattered at any point. Take the Nicknames episode. There's that hilarious rush to get to the fiscal responsibility briefing, and then the next shot is them leaving the briefing. We never saw her speech to firefighters we just got a shot of her leaving in the motorcade. "So Mike's jokes didn't work?" "Yeah, firefighters are used to seeing people die, Amy, but not like that."

The policy seems completely unimportant to the show, just like it does to everybody else outside the Veep's office. They're at a briefing on some obesity thing and the reporter form the yogurt episode brings up the laughing secret service guy getting fired. Which is hilarious to me because I thought they were going to follow-up on the really dark meeting with the white power Republican Buddy Garrity guy.

Oh no, I'm not interested in the policy itself. They're pretty deliberately nonspecific on that dimension of it, and I like that choice. But I do like to see them navigating those political dealings in the staggeringly incompetent and particularly powerless manner they do. Gaffe control is fun to watch as well, but I can foresee growing very weary of the show being consumed by the fallout from the aforementioned storyline.

Zephyr_Fate

The_Scarab

Kasyn wrote: »

Taramoor wrote: »

Kasyn wrote: »

I'm still enjoying the ever-loving shit out of this show. Is it possible to have 3 or 4 different favorite characters?

I will say however, I am incredibly skeptical about the storyline that the most recent episode brings up at the end. That plot can really hijack the show and I'd miss some of the more political goings-on if they get backseated to the soapy stuff.

The political goings-on don't seem to have really mattered at any point. Take the Nicknames episode. There's that hilarious rush to get to the fiscal responsibility briefing, and then the next shot is them leaving the briefing. We never saw her speech to firefighters we just got a shot of her leaving in the motorcade. "So Mike's jokes didn't work?" "Yeah, firefighters are used to seeing people die, Amy, but not like that."

The policy seems completely unimportant to the show, just like it does to everybody else outside the Veep's office. They're at a briefing on some obesity thing and the reporter form the yogurt episode brings up the laughing secret service guy getting fired. Which is hilarious to me because I thought they were going to follow-up on the really dark meeting with the white power Republican Buddy Garrity guy.

Oh no, I'm not interested in the policy itself. They're pretty deliberately nonspecific on that dimension of it, and I like that choice. But I do like to see them navigating those political dealings in the staggeringly incompetent and particularly powerless manner they do. Gaffe control is fun to watch as well, but I can foresee growing very weary of the show being consumed by the fallout from the aforementioned storyline.

That was the central conceit of The Thick of It. They spent incredible amounts of effort and stress to avoid gaffes on things that literally didn't matter. It's the same here.

Almost the entire show is people running about in a frantic, mad dash to fix political blunders concerning policies and public appearances that - if they were real - nobody would actually care about, at all.

That's why it's so funny. The stress they go through. I'm the Vice President of the United States you stupid little fuckers. It ultimately is meaningless. It's like Burn After Reading. After all this mess and scandal, you could end the series with JK Simmons saying 'well what have we learned here? Nothing.'

Zephyr_Fate

Secret as in SHUT THE FUCK UP

Kasyn

Was an okay episode tonight. Almost every bit character on the show has some fantastic moments though, there's not a single really weak character comedically.

NathanielFletcher

Yeah heard a lot about this show from a lot of people. Need to give it an eye.

Slider

I can sit and watch this show, but I don't get any satisfaction from it. It is dull and tiresome and the comedy is dry and humorless.

Kasyn

I liked that one time where they called Jonah the 'skyscraper of shit'.

Zephyr_Fate

He's gonna be the dump-ee, and I'm going to be the dump... er.

Zephyr_Fate

I'll c.c you later.

Hacksaw

Slider wrote: »

I can sit and watch this show, but I don't get any satisfaction from it. It is dull and tiresome and the comedy is dry and humorless.

Never come back to Washington state.

Zephyr_Fate

"How could that many Americans not like me? I think they got it wrong, they counted those numbers wrong, or all those Americans... are completely wrong."

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Slider

Hacksaw wrote: »

Slider wrote: »

I can sit and watch this show, but I don't get any satisfaction from it. It is dull and tiresome and the comedy is dry and humorless.

Never come back to Washington state.

Now I'm coming back just because you told me not to...

Zephyr_Fate

mcdermott wrote: »

Slider wrote: »

I can sit and watch this show, but I don't get any satisfaction from it. It is dull and tiresome and the comedy is dry and humorless.

Huh. My only serious problem with the show is the intro sequence...Has "pawned off on an intern" all over it.

But I like dry humor. And this show isn't even that dry.

The intro sequence is probably meant to be ironic. It has the high-falutin' soundtrack of a star politician, but... no, it's just Selina Meyer. Incompetent and kinda bitchy.

Taramoor

All the little headlines in the intro make me laugh.

"Nightmeyer" is great.

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Ended much stronger than it started. I hope they keep it going.

Hacksaw

mcdermott wrote: »

Oh god, loved the finale.

Corpsefucking.

The spinning chair callback was the best part.

Kasyn

Hacksaw wrote: »

mcdermott wrote: »

Oh god, loved the finale.

Corpsefucking.

The spinning chair callback was the best part.

This. Kind of a perfect way to close out the season, actually.

I like the storylines they've set up for next season, too. I mean, there's a villain for fuck's sake! Can't wait, and I hope it's way more than 8 episodes.

Page-

I'd prefer them keeping it short again. I've been a bigger fan of the way the UK and HBO do short series over long, ponderous US tv seasons. Quality over quantity every time.

Besides, new series of The Thick of It soon.

Kasyn

Page- wrote: »

I'd prefer them keeping it short again. I've been a bigger fan of the way the UK and HBO do short series over long, ponderous US tv seasons. Quality over quantity every time.

Besides, new series of The Thick of It soon.

Eight is just so short though! Even sixteen is kind of short for television seasons. Can still have quality AND quantity!

Mojo_Jojo

Six is typical for comedies in the UK.

Page-

Yeah, six is perfectly normal. Most of my favourite comedies are six episodes per series.

emp123

I could be okay with 10, but 8 just felt way too short. Especially with other new HBO shows going for 10.

Kasyn

Mojo_Jojo wrote: »

Six is typical for comedies in the UK.

This isn't a comedy in the UK! This is American television, on HBO no less!

I'm used to 26 hour long episodes per season of television.

is this so much to ask

Zephyr_Fate

Not Great, Admittedly -- The Selina Meyer Story.

Deebaser

I'd rather have six good episodes than an endless conveyor belt of filler.

Zephyr_Fate

"That's all I wanna say to him for the rest of my life." I love rewatching this show and catching lines I missed.

Taramoor

VEEP wins an Emmy!

Julia Louis-Dreyfuss wins Best Lead Actress in a Comedy Series!

Loses Outstanding Comedy Series to Modern Family because voters accidentally sent in their ballots from two years ago!

Loses Best Casting in a Comedy Series to Girls because the world makes no goddamned sense!

Zephyr_Fate

It's okay, it'll kill Girls next season when people all begin to realize how fucking terrible Girls is.

Page-

The only valid reason for losing should have been Louie winning.

Anyway, new series of The Thick of It is on!

Evermourn

Just became aware of this a week ago, all caught up now. Took a couple of episodes to get into the groove, but man, so good. I thought JLD did a great job with the crying episode, that pent up emotion really seemed convincing. Was a bit disappointed with

the pregnancy arc, they did all that buildup and then it was "oh that, I had a miscarriage." on the next episode.