Comedy "Veep" starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus on HBO

[Marvolo]

Selina is an awful awful person. Lets get a GOT/Veep crossover going. Selina goes to the Wall and Tormund comes to the White House.

 

[Sawyer]

Selina is an awful awful person. Lets get a GOT/Veep crossover going. Selina goes to the Wall and Tormund comes to the White House.

I loved Catherine sobbing against the wall and Selina merely commenting on how loud it was.

 

[Marvolo]

I loved Catherine sobbing against the wall and Selina merely commenting on how loud it was.

And her crying at the funeral.

 

[Sawyer]

 

[Golgo-13]

I need to get around to watching this show; heard good things about it. What season is currently playing.....?

 

[Kaleb]

Season 5 is currently on, and you should get on it,this season has been amazing.

 

[Spidey-Bat]

Selina is an awful awful person. Lets get a GOT/Veep crossover going. Selina goes to the Wall and Tormund comes to the White House.

I've found her to be a lot less likable this season. I still enjoy the show though.

 

[Sawyer]

Peter MacNicol's bit about the senator and the babysitter and Selina's line about her mother at the end literally killed me.

 

[Sithborg]

The focus group bit killed me.

 

[Matt]

Jonah chasing the little kid is so ****ing creepy.

Also, line of the night:

"Was it everybody?"
"Yep."
"You can go."

 

[antsman41]

Jonah Ryan for Superman.

He is stealing the show, well he always has.

Even though everyone else is so amazing as well... these last two episodes have gave me gut aches from laughing.

 

[Sawyer]

This picture is everything.

 

[Sawyer]

Three episodes in and I'm honestly willing to put Peter MacNicol in my top 5 Veep characters.

 

[Kaleb]

Gary's reaction last night

 

[Matt]

I have never seen a comedy show that improves when the creator and showrunner leaves after the fourth season...yet here we are. Season 5 has proven to be hilarious: arguably the best season to date. Hell, last night's episode was one of the best episodes of the show's run.

 

[Marvolo]

Selina tore that comgresswoman a new *******.

And Gary he is such a weird dude.

 

[Sawyer]

I liked how the showrunner described Tony Hale's response as if it was a combination of him walking in on his wife, sister and mother.

 

[Pickleweasel]

Jonah Ryan's gotta be top 3 characters on TV

 

[Shifty]

I have never seen a comedy show that improves when the creator and showrunner leaves after the fourth season...yet here we are. Season 5 has proven to be hilarious: arguably the best season to date. Hell, last night's episode was one of the best episodes of the show's run.

Yeah it definitely makes a strong case for their best episode. I can't remember a better one from the last two seasons. Everyone had terrific scenes all throughout the episode.

 

[Sawyer]

"You're playing a very dangerous game of chicken with the head f***ing hen."

Goddamn this show for being so good.

 

[Sawyer]

Gaaaaawd, the introduction scene with the Chinese.

 

[Marvolo]

The Chinese thinking Selina was making out with her daughter.

 

[antsman41]

That was an 8 episode long joke.

 

[Matt]

I don't know how Veep has done it, but some how, after its original show runner left...it got better. And that is saying something considering it was already the best show on television. Tonight's episode, however, may have been the best episode in television history.

It took a tired formula (mockumentary) and did something no other show using this style (aside from maybe the UK version of The Office) has ever done.it made the cutaways real. Where as usually they are opportunities for ironic jokes, contradictions and the likes, this used it to show the characters, aware of their surroundings, and let them show themselves as they wanted to be seen. Yet, at the same time, it also showed how they truly are with the inadvertent footage. And of course their interactions show them how they are to those around them. It was a brilliantly executed episode.

And none of that speaks to the true brilliance, the way it was built up to throughout the season. Everyone assumed that Catherine's documentary would be released eventually. This subverted expectations and used it in ways no one could see coming. Nearly every scene this season had to have been shot planning to this moment. Looking back now there are so many little hints, each capitalized upon in brilliant ways in this episode.it. Be it the throwaway Mike line about a second secret meeting, or the major stuff like the Tom James sex scene...it all led up to and this, an episode that lets the audience really appreciate the I intricacies of the show.


Some miscellaneous thoughts:

Mike's running story is absolutely heart breaking.

Jonah answering the phone in the elementary school...

I love that Kent is in a Latino motorcycle club

Sue is the only character who is not explored this episode and it is done in a way that fees so damn natural and is far more perfect for her than any talking head could ever be.

 

[Sawyer]

Jonah answering the phone in the elementary school...

They could've acknowledged what he was doing with a cutaway to a disgusted/horrified teacher, but I love that they instead did so by having Peter MacNicol viciously tear him to shreds in a way that made an even bigger scene.