"It's actually my favorite joke ever!"
― why ruin a good tradition? (Will M.), Monday, 1 May 2017 20:37 (six years ago) link
Minna is so incredible
otm !!
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Tuesday, 2 May 2017 15:57 (six years ago) link
This episode was fantastic, probably because, with the exception of Dan and Amy, they got the band back together.
― passionate plant-based athlete (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 2 May 2017 16:13 (six years ago) link
lol Minna is so funny. I thought that she was always secretly disdainful of Selina, but it's even funnier that she thinks that she and Selina are best of friends.
― passionate plant-based athlete (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 2 May 2017 16:14 (six years ago) link
And she's so relentlessly upbeat even though her 'best friend' hates her and her son tried to drown himself in an ice hole.
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 2 May 2017 16:29 (six years ago) link
"there are literally no laws in Georgia. and I'm using the term 'literally' correctly"
my favorite joke though was at the beginning when Selina won't take a picture with the guy and his daughter and he just says "I don't have a camera anyway."
― evol j, Tuesday, 2 May 2017 18:20 (six years ago) link
oh, Georgia the country, not Georgia the Veep writer
lots of good individual jokes in this but also some really lazy stuff (like ^), that definitely feel like the product of longtime American sitcom pros making a show in LA vs amused foreigners making a show about and near DC. "in post-communist Georgia, election fix YOU!"
<3 Splett
― (±\ PLO;;;;;;; Style (sic), Wednesday, 3 May 2017 00:54 (six years ago) link
Scab Calloway! lol
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Saturday, 13 May 2017 09:21 (six years ago) link
That finale did a hell of a lot of expository lifting. Can't wait for Jonah's campaign!
― maura, Monday, 26 June 2017 17:01 (six years ago) link
fantastically filthy season; lost a bit of heart but stayed funny. agree with you maura, curious to see the new reset universe.
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Monday, 26 June 2017 17:53 (six years ago) link
great season yeah. felt totally resurrected after the s5 finale but ended up if anything deepening its world (while remaining just as funny as ever) - second half of the season in particular
― imago, Wednesday, 28 June 2017 09:13 (six years ago) link
the finale was a bit of a mess but i still like this show. yeah they are spinning the same wheels but it's still funny. Selina has always been a horrible person focused entirely on her own ego and the show has never shied away from this. weaker shows would have turned her into a cartoon villain by this point, glad that she's still believably horrible.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 28 June 2017 16:03 (six years ago) link
just finished the season. surely this is the funniest show currently on tv?
― Mordy, Friday, 30 June 2017 00:24 (six years ago) link
"He's not exactly on the yes-fly list"
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Friday, 30 June 2017 03:00 (six years ago) link
Selina has always been a horrible person focused entirely on her own ego and the show has never shied away from this. weaker shows would have turned her into a cartoon villain by this point, glad that she's still believably horrible.
eheh, yeah. she's a terrible human being. yet somehow they manage to make her likeable... even to people who are not Gary Walsh !
― AlXTC from Paris, Friday, 30 June 2017 14:30 (six years ago) link
Is the season worth watching, then? I enjoyed the first episode but general exhaustion (with the show and US politics in general) has kept me away.
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 30 June 2017 14:45 (six years ago) link
yeah, it's good.
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Friday, 30 June 2017 15:09 (six years ago) link
In regards to her horribleness they've been leaning way too hard into the terrible-mom thing but yeah otherwise they've kept it totally plausible
― Evan, Friday, 30 June 2017 15:11 (six years ago) link
it's maybe the best season yet tbh and they're starting to do serious world building all over the place which has just been fantastic
― Mordy, Friday, 30 June 2017 15:13 (six years ago) link
the gary origin reveal was lol. actually all the flashbacks were amazing. they're talking about getting rid of mike like a decade ago already lol.
btw did i miss it how did they get the reporter onto the campaign team?
― Mordy, Friday, 30 June 2017 15:14 (six years ago) link
Was it to get the diary back?
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 30 June 2017 15:16 (six years ago) link
I think part of the joke is he's just there after going in so hard earlier
― blog haus aka the scene raver (wins), Friday, 30 June 2017 15:17 (six years ago) link
finale was weird. Loved Margery's reaction to getting the wipe warmer. The terrible-mum thing is getting lazy though.
― kinder, Saturday, 1 July 2017 18:59 (six years ago) link
also he was replacing mike!
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Saturday, 1 July 2017 21:23 (six years ago) link
loved the finale but felt the rest of the series often missed the mark. hard to pin down but few bits felt hammy and cartoonlike, esp jonah in the early few episodes - far-fetched scene of him shaving his head in the mirror. this is the first season where armando's absence was notable, lost his light touch, went more sitcommy. no one else think this?
― NI, Sunday, 2 July 2017 11:25 (six years ago) link
I thought it during the previous season. There are enough good jokes that I still enjoy it tho - I liked the reveal of the one senator's home life just as I'd been getting tired of his routine with his assistant (and I know a big part of the gag is how rote & stale this has become)
― blog haus aka the scene raver (wins), Sunday, 2 July 2017 14:07 (six years ago) link
I thought the finale felt like an overlong in case you missed it for an episode we never saw... much preferred the run of episodes
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Sunday, 2 July 2017 17:14 (six years ago) link
Unlike many I wasn't that into a lot of the flashbacks but I did like the ellipses in the main storyline - I think it was a really well conceived & structured episode
― blog haus aka the scene raver (wins), Sunday, 2 July 2017 17:27 (six years ago) link
Gary is bad tbh (character and performance) this is consistent
― blog haus aka the scene raver (wins), Sunday, 2 July 2017 17:28 (six years ago) link
yeah gary this season didn't feel right. they really tried to play up the angle of him being in love with selina, where it was never really about that previously. some weird nod to his arrested development character maybe
plus i know it's always been a bombardment of gags but it felt muddled and almost exhausting at times, so much dialogue done so quickly, im sure i missed a shit ton of jokes.
― NI, Sunday, 2 July 2017 18:11 (six years ago) link
I meant Gary was always bad - bad idea - they shouldn't have done it
― blog haus aka the scene raver (wins), Sunday, 2 July 2017 18:21 (six years ago) link
we've all seen a Smithers before this was just terribly conceived and executed from the beginning
― blog haus aka the scene raver (wins), Sunday, 2 July 2017 18:23 (six years ago) link
no way Gary is great dude was born to play sycophants
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 2 July 2017 18:26 (six years ago) link
No, I tapped out 3 or 4 episodes in, because the tone of the LA version was this year so different to what I used to get out of the show – all the political satire was drained away, with nothing left but the characters abusing each other. Except without the abuse being motivated by them being either unpleasant or reasonable people with no reason to like each other, forced together by common goals (whether or not those clash with their own regard). And without it being written by the people who developed that style of abuse.
Was the finale really so worthwhile that I should bother checking back in for it?
― Doubtless they are toss. (sic), Wednesday, 5 July 2017 02:35 (six years ago) link
I haven't seen any of the post-Iannucci material and nothing I've heard has tempted me
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Wednesday, 5 July 2017 02:36 (six years ago) link
Well their goals this season were : the library and the memoir + mainly trying to find a job to rebound after the crash of the previous campaign. That's a pretty good motivation imo ! I mean I can totally understand having to cope with assholes for a job...As for Gary, his reaction was so great when Selina announced she wanted to run for president again at the beginning of the season.other favorites were the running jokes : "it was a spa" and "daylight savings time".As many people said already, the finale was lots of fun in a "previously" wtf way.
― AlXTC from Paris, Wednesday, 5 July 2017 08:16 (six years ago) link
This series got wayyyy better after the first 3-4 episodes imo
― imago, Wednesday, 5 July 2017 09:57 (six years ago) link
the ep with the elections in georgia was great !
― AlXTC from Paris, Wednesday, 5 July 2017 10:13 (six years ago) link
I keep re-checking for a Death Of Stalin release date, nothing yet. I think Iannucci is a complete dick, but there is no way this movie is not going to great.
― calzino, Wednesday, 5 July 2017 10:25 (six years ago) link
I haven't seen anything to suggest AI is a dick (other than his characters' ornate insults)?
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Wednesday, 5 July 2017 14:53 (six years ago) link
I think they did the best they could with a central character who was out of office and unemployed.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 5 July 2017 14:59 (six years ago) link
xp on a recent post-election appearance on a BBC panel he came across like a right slimy Blairite apologist.
― calzino, Wednesday, 5 July 2017 15:05 (six years ago) link
idk I think his constantly imploring his millions of 18-year-old followers to vote made a real difference to the election
― blog haus aka the scene raver (wins), Wednesday, 5 July 2017 15:06 (six years ago) link
I mean he does criticise Blair's legacy, but not near enough for my liking.
― calzino, Wednesday, 5 July 2017 15:10 (six years ago) link
grime4corbyn >>> Iannucci
― calzino, Wednesday, 5 July 2017 15:11 (six years ago) link
lol wins!
― calzino, Wednesday, 5 July 2017 15:14 (six years ago) link
the nooch has a new pilot for hbo. comedy set in space.
http://deadline.com/2017/09/hbo-armando-iannucci-space-comedy-pilot-veep-1202176361/
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Monday, 25 September 2017 19:15 (six years ago) link
Premiere was pretty solid. So many comedians in this. Maybe my favorite insult was when Patton Oswalt's character referred to tall Jonah (who surely is going to get elected president) as a "skyraper."
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 5 April 2019 00:26 (five years ago) link
The cartoonishness of the post-Iannucci era continues to get exaggerated but it was not bad. I liked ‘blue is the most annoying color’.
― pippin drives a lambo through the gates of isengard (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 5 April 2019 01:20 (five years ago) link
This Aspen episode, holy moly.
― ... (Eazy), Tuesday, 9 April 2019 01:46 (five years ago) link