A thread for Armando Iannucci's VEEP

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/

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."

The cartoonishness of the post-Iannucci era continues to get exaggerated but it was not bad. I liked ‘blue is the most annoying color’.

This Aspen episode, holy moly.

Yeah, properly great.

I had suspected that Mike wasn't back and interfering just out of laziness with the character.

I legitimately fantasise about being able to deliver bad news in the manner of Richard Splett. It would just be an astonishing life skill.

The whole phone upside down routi e this week was great.

sharia math!

I haven't seen the most recent episode but the one before that I thought was hilarious. "I don't see vagina color," and so on. Just lots of great insults and throw-away gags, like the cat mayor or the total plausibility of Jonah's boxing ring ad.

sharia math was amazing

Jonah has been Homer Simpson-ed, in that he is now too stupid to actually breathe, but lol anyway

Ha, just caught up. "No more math!!""

"Algebra? More like Al Jazeera!"

this series is maybe even more incredible than the previous ones. so many amazing character arcs. amy's especially. god fuck america!

Sic you mean flanderized

Oh but specifically like homer aka dumb I gotcha now

given trump and republicans in general i don’t think it’s too off

i love how you're like 'jonah is trump!' but then they're all trump

except the one who's aoc haha

I thought this last episode was really funny and this season the first time it seems to be riffing directly off of current politics and news.

Haven't seen the new one, but for some reason (gee hmm) I'm having a lot harder time with the full-on nihilism & misanthropy on this season.

i can't believe there are only two episodes left

Richard's going to end up as president, isn't he.

I managed to get to her being Jonah's actual sister before anyone in that kitchen did, having thought up till then that the joke was going to be that he's Canadian and so couldn't be president anyway.

Half sister!

Making that distinction to try and justify it was the icing on the cake.

yes, the Canada thing was a good red herring

also predicting Splett to fail upwards even faster

I don't think there's an AOC in this

given trump and republicans in general i don’t think it’s too off

it is absolutely believable that someone so horrendous and stupid could be a successful politician in America! Jonah just used to be at least smart enough to be cunning

yeah but his ego took over and he got rewarded with applause for acting out. it’s like... textbook awful dude behavior!

I am going to miss this show so much. I finally caught up on the first three episodes last night. I love the full on nihilism.

This season is all about Richard and Marjorie (who are the only two non-venal people in the whole thing except Catherine). The speed and ease with which Marjorie destroyed their plan to set her up was amazing.

I'm looking forward to the inevitable reveal that Andrew has faked his own death as well.

i dunno... there are only two episodes left

"...I'll show up to the piss puddle that is your house and protest your husband whacking it to your daughter's seventh grade yearbook."

I did not feel bad that I laughed and laughed at this.

Is this the final season?

Yes

I am bad at predictions, but here's mine anyway: both Jonah and Selina want Splett as a running mate. Selina gets him, and they win. Then Selina resigns due to a scandal (pick one) and Splett becomes president.

Also, I love that the title of splettnet.net is "LET'S TALK ABOUT SPLETT".

Also also: https://www.jonahryanforpresident.com/issues.html

All of these things have that happened to me during my struggle have been excellent preparation for what I call “Phase Next,” my run for the presidency of the United States of America. I have been tested time and time again and I have always succeeded brilliantly. Pay no attention to the haters. They will tell you that I am unqualified. Well, I’m not. I am actually very qualified. They will tell you I am a “loose cannon.” Well, guess what? When I’m elected president, I’m going to get a whole lot looser!

Cancer


As someone who has not simply beaten cancer but utterly destroyed it, I have one simple message: “Hey Cancer! Guess what? This time it’s personal!”

I just noticed that one of the sections on the Jonah web page is titled "My Struggle: The Jonah Ryan Story"; "My Struggle" in German is, as we know, "Mein Kampf."

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-t271itvSGQ

I feel like the grim reaper just dropped his scythe and started eating me out

looks like they’re on track to have Richard waft into the presidency through genial inertia in the finale next week. just bobbing upwards on the winds of chaos, an indefatigable soap bubble floating above the bile & fire being spit around him.

I’m totally down for a season or three of President Splett after this, possibly featuring the characters with a potential capacity for niceness carrying over. (So, er.... Mike & Amy plus Marjorie?)

Yeah, bringing in Mike McKean and getting rid of him so quickly all but guarantees President Splett imo. He's going to end us as running mate to whoever the party pick is (which makes Mendez less likely now, also because of the China deal but also Talbot because she doesn't have a relationship with him) with them getting banned/arrested/whatever before taking office.

I'm with you on Mike and Marjorie, but Amy undoes every bit of nice with an act of unbridled Capitol Hill desperation. I actually think Gary could fit - when he was put in charge of the Faith Initiative we saw how useless he is as anything other than a sycophantic bagman and there's mileage in a 'fish out of water in a non-Selina World'.

The Jonah Ryan Truth Caboose!

"And how do these diseases get here?! Immigrants!"

"Kill them!"

"Well, we really don't have to kill all of them. We have good immigrants. Beyonce ... "

I'm with you on Mike and Marjorie, but Amy undoes every bit of nice with an act of unbridled Capitol Hill desperation.

Capacity for! There wld be fun tension between her trying to restore her soul via President Splett's Agenda Of Pleasantness, and using the repulsive political skills she's been corrupted to over her career.

She's the one with the potential for a redemption arc, I'll give you that.

love the idea of splett ending up as pres at the end but starting to wonder if they'll find a way to make him pres and selina his veep now

https://www.vulture.com/2019/05/veep-timothy-simons-jonah-anti-vaxxers.html

All the people we were talking to [in politics] when the show first started up — they were in the Obama administration generally, but we met with some Republicans — it was all the same shit. As we met more and more of these people, all of their Facebook profile pictures were pictures of Obama where they happened to be in the background to show the physical proximity that they had to him, which then meant that they were important. I can’t imagine that’s an Obama-specific thing. No matter what, Jonah is going to care about that more than he cares about anything else. He’s not there for policy, or to do the right thing, or to have any moral center. He’s there to get a picture that’s in the proximity of the president.

Maybe that’s why people attach to it. Maybe it’s refreshing to them to see somebody who wasn’t lying about it, who’s just like, “That’s what I want.” If it was out here [in L.A.] it would be like, “I want to be six feet from Chuck Lorre. I don’t want to be Chuck Lorre, I just want to be six feet from him so everybody knows I’m fucking Hollywood.”

stuck the landing imo. JLD doing top level work.

Kent killed me. great ending to a great series.

yeah i thought this was an excellent conclusion, very michael corleone-esque at times. was a bit confused at the end by how old everyone is supposed to be, but that's just a nitpick. president splett!

We're still an episode behind but I was worried we weren't going to see Minna in this series and I was so overjoyed when she turned up.