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….
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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?’….
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….
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….
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….
Veep ‘Catherine’: Catch-44’s
It’s not often comedies can establish themselves by their third episode, but the two great episodes leading up to last night’s ‘Catherine’ set the tone of Veep very well, and in….
Veep ‘Frozen Yoghurt’: Creative Semantics
I’ll admit I was a little hesitant when I saw the title of Veep‘s second episode. A frozen yogurt story… on a show with a former Seinfeld star? Fortunately, ‘Frozen….
Veep ‘Fundraiser’: Someone Ordered A Dick-O-Gram
American politics in the modern age is an interesting little monster. Politicians surround themselves with underlings who maintain their public image, to free them up for more speech-giving and handshaking. Veep,….