A thread for Armando Iannucci's VEEP

Dan doesn't even realise that Ben did the same thing to him as he did to Jonah

this was beautiful, especially as Ben didn't even try to hide it

xps

OTM about Veep's dense plotting/writing, makes it extremely re-watchable and often better on repeat viewings. Also some great lines aren't even in the episodes but in deleted scenes, e.g. Mike response to Leon West question about when Selena knew a hitchhiker was a spy.

"post-tax"

everybody luvva da showbiz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=da5tjfpKyac

New episode is masterclass stuff.

some say three microwaves is overkill, my response is always ~tapas~

admit it, we're all a little bit Ray-curious.

"cancel search siri"

tony hale/jld laughing fit bathroom scene is so good

this season >>

yeah, great wind up

shd i be watching this? p4reene seems to like it.

i think it's some of the best teevee on teevee

easy enough, if you liked in the loop, you'll like this too

figured a show where all politicians are awful, self-obsessed, disingenuous prats would be total morbs bait

tony hale/jld laughing fit bathroom scene is so good

Jonad lives

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/charles-johnson-thad-cochran-mississippi

It was the latest twist in the rancorous, messy feud enveloping the Mississippi GOP — and Johnson was right in the middle of it. He followed up the story, which was published on his own website, gotnews, with an avalanche of defiant tweets.

"You establishment hacks do know that I've been threatened with lawsuits, death threats before, right?" he wrote in one. "I planned on this."

He took on former Mitt Romney adviser Stuart Stevens, who mocked the bribery allegations and referred to Johnson as a "fringe" blogger. Johnson said Stevens had "praised" him in the past and threatened to publish private direct messages between the two.

All the while, Johnson engaged in relentless self-promotion. He bragged that his story had been picked up by the likes of Fox News, Breitbart and Rush Limbaugh (although he lamented that Sean Hannity didn't cite him by name.) And he used the spotlight to give attention to his efforts to raise money for his "awesome projects."

"Oh I know this annoys people but send me some research money. Because I am kicking ass," Johnson wrote in another tweet, providing a link to his page at gofundme.com where supporters can donate money to his cause.

hahaha okay that is uncanny

Oh my god freaking OOUUUTTTT over Selina vs. Gary blow-up

it was pretty awesome yes. thought for sure he was fired.

what happened on labour day

outlook unclear, try again later
http://tvline.com/2015/04/19/veep-season-4-selina-gary-fight-labor-day/

the banana doesn't work gag

this thing has gotten way to big, its like my moms cat

I love the pace of this.

hitler bunker

"Richard T. Splatt. I don't know why I said T, my middle name is John."

Pairing up Richard and Jonah is almost the best thing they've ever done.

I've been rewatching a few episodes from season 1, and they feel so empty. They've really created a world over time.

yes, this show has gotten so classic. i love that iannucci is now expanding the universe to lobbyists.

i have been loving this

Richard is an A+ addition to the show; dude's comic timing is excellent
i like that the more power JLD gets, the worse of a human being she becomes
the basic iannucci principle seems to be that the best thing about absolute power is that you don't have to take responsibility for your actions

this show is never not funny per se but sometimes the cringe comedy style is grating

I feel like this show is missing a malcolm tucker type and that's a notable if not crippling deficiency - although ben the chief of staff comes close

& while this is obviously a satire I have to say that literally everything gary does has long since passed the point of being remotely plausible behavior by a human, even for a sycophantic assistant in the beltway - maybe it's just how one-note tony hale is idk

idk i find hale's character believable. aren't there so many ppl in politics - actual politicians, and staff, etc - that you wonder how they made it so far considering how bizarre they are? and the answer is normally that the entropy of the system creates a condition where you met the right person and ten years later you're still working with them.

adding hugh laurie's character was a total masterstroke imo, he's the malcolm tucker of this bullshit

"I don't care if you're a 1950s radio broadcaster. your fozzie bear's been ripped up and used to smuggle heroin. *points to ken* and nazi doctor...*points to gary* and I don't even know what the fuck you are!!!*

not quite as good as malcolm's "sanitarium for the fuckin deaf" rant but close

ben is great but he has a weariness and lack of concern w/power that you wouldn't see in malcolm

malcolm was like the omar of ttoi, the villain with a heart of gold, everyone on earth petrified of him, a supernatural being almost, with the power to bestow life or death

richard is completely all-time at this point

feel like the show has gotten a little slower, more telegraphed, more curb-y, not a bad thing though necessarily

yea Jonah & Richard are amazing

I lol'd that they really had Jonah w/ a Nissan cube after making that reference a few seasons ago

also lol'd so much @ jld can u guys just pick up all this shit tomorrow and fuck u america

chlumsky's kiss-off speech coupla eps ago was weirdly unsatisfying, maybe her character is too uptight to properly deliver it i dunno. it reminded me of ben stiller's equally damp rant to the stewardess at the end of meet the parents, you're supposed to identify with what they're saying, this voicing of long suppressed irritation, but when they've done you're just kinda eh is that all you got?

Richard is definitely the star turn. His low-key introduction last series was a turning point.

Hard not to see the inquiry that will close this season as anything other than a rerun of S4 TToI though.

well it won't be called an inquiry, so that's different..

I was always worried they'd put in a Malcolm and so happy they haven't. They've really impressed with finding new types of characters who fit in oddly well. Ben was early on and always delivers gold of course, but Richard is a whole new thing. Dude's face is amazing.

re: chlumsky rage, i think part of that stems from the show having such disdain for literally everyone that it's not even going to give that character the big fuck-you/truth to power moment, in part because im not sure chlumsky's character actually hates what she does for this completely inept/undeserving candidate - just hates not being listened to when her ideas are always relatively practical

The introduction of Selina's friend that led to Amy's ragequit was, I assumed, AI's take on the Carole Caplin saga.

also lol'd so much @ jld can u guys just pick up all this shit tomorrow and fuck u america

― johnny crunch, Tuesday, June 2, 2015 8:29 AM (36 minutes ago)

this was so great

this ep was all time, this show is all time, everything abt veep is just the best

http://33.media.tumblr.com/eb073abb06432a3d3fb7ebb3ee79b560/tumblr_molvosSNMS1s7gnr1o1_400.gif

"sure, i love money. but i also love a little lady called the united states of america"

amazing ep imo, i was loling throughout