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Tango0127 Mar 2019 12:30 p.m. PST

"Veep has always been about the absurdity of the political machine, and the vengeful, petty personalities that populate it. It's your HOA board put on a national scale, with more money and bigger stakes, but where the same basic human principles apply. One of the issues the HBO series has had in recent years, though, is how to magnify its acid take on politics in response to the chaotic cartoon that realm has even more openly become. There have literally been moments from recent campaigns that have come straight from the show.

But Veep is also its own world. It doesn't incorporate Trump or Obama or thinly-veiled references to real political figures. It is, and continues to be, the story of one bumbling politician, Selina Meyer (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) and her team of doofuses who are all desperate for power and respect, but deserve none of it. (Well, except maybe Richard). In its seventh and final season, those selfish motivations are at the core of Selina's new Presidential campaign, where she is running against familiar Veep figures Jonah Ryan (Timothy Simons) and Tom James (Hugh Laurie). But Veep's humor mostly comes from the utter contempt with which Selina, her campaign, and everyone involved in this political world have for themselves, the voters, and for each other…."
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Personal logo Editor in Chief Bill The Editor of TMP Fezian27 Mar 2019 5:25 p.m. PST

I haven't seen anything she's done since Seinfeld, so she's entirely off my radar scope.

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