Season premiere review: Veep ‘Midterms’ – Him Chose Me

The more power Selina Meyer seeks, the less power she ends up with - or in tonight's season premiere 'Midterms', she gets her wish, and the kind of power she'd never want: one that involves work and responsibility. Of course, her professional step forward (which she fights for the entire episode) is catalyzed by a …

Veep ‘Tears’: Tweaking The Tear Nipple

'Tears' put a cherry on top of a fantastic first season of Veep, a poignantly hilarious half-hour about the 24/7 news cycle, public opinion, and how the slightest over-reaction to anything positive or negative can be disastrous for politics. It was a almost-perfect culmination of the show's first eight episodes, capturing the satirical genius of creator Armando Iannucci …

Veep ‘Full Disclosure’: A Horse, A Sheep, And A Pig

In some ways, 'Full Disclosure' felt like Veep, if it were a tightly scripted reality show. That reality show, of course, would be 'Who The Fuck Is Selina Going To Fire?' and the stars tonight were the three top dogs in the Meyer political machine, who put their self-preservation skills to the test during a very …

Veep ‘Baseball’: Let’s Get Moving!

Ok, we might as well address the elephant in the room: the vice-president is pregnant. In a way, it's oddly fitting that the politician obsessed with her own celebrity just became a tabloid monster with the episode's conclusion - but it's also a ballsy move by Armando Iannucci and company to make with such a young …

Veep ‘Nicknames’: Grainery Gang Bang

From beginning to end, 'Nicknames' is about two important parts of politics: public image and political strategy. The episode opens with a C-Span 2 shot of Selina falling asleep in her chair, and throughout the extremely cynical and hilarious half hour, challenges her authority at every turn, both in her identity with internet bloggers and …

Veep ‘Chung’: A Veep In Deep

Part of being a politician is compromising, something Amy and Dan are reminded by Senator O' Brian near the end of 'Chung', an episode which focuses around one single off-camera blunder brought on by an under-researched fact about the Gov. Chung from Minnesota. But part of all those compromises - a continuous string of them through the first …