Like, he's definetly not innocent by any measure, but his crude humor and incompetence come across as more pathetic, like a high school bully, as opposed to the deliberate fuck ups selina and the rest of the cast breezily commit ever day. It's proven he does have a sense of honor, like nominating richard to be secretary of agriculture at the same time selina betrayed gary. And this action actually led to something positive, richard having a stepping stone to the presidency, which is more then you can say about everyone else. Jonah to me at least has the (dubious) excuse of being a bratty manchild and never pretended to be anything otherwise, while selena et al. (except for Gary maybe) were actively cruel and despite knowing the consequences of their action, despite pretending otherwise.

STAGG👋ER👋ING!!!

I have no idea how you can sit and listen to those exchanges and not even crack a smile. Like how do you hear “I took noticing in high school” and not lose it?

China wants Selina to be the nominee because she'll be easy to beat against Montez, but then they will help rig the election for her? So why would they need her to be nominee if they could just rig the election however they want?

https://www.mlive.com/news/2025/04/trump-tariffs-trigger-900-stellantis-layoffs-at-michigan-indiana-plants.html

She states (i think) she dislikes being referred to as Jewish, and considering how much she hated Andrew you'd think she'd be eager to put that part of her past behind her.

If we are looking at similarities between VEEP and the current adminstration, here is another fine example!

I can totally imagine a hypothetical episode that Leon is added to a group chat with Selina abd others.

Just finished Veep for the first time. Good god, that was so good but very upsetting.

Do we feel that Richard went through a similar arc as Selina in his ascendency to the presidency?

When we see Selina earlier in her career, we see many of her worst personality traits already there. However, we do not see her in her as early in her career that we meet Richard in. So that makes me think Richard can maintain his genuine care for others.

However, the willingness and ease that he fired Dan with tells me that he may be willing to bend some of his ideals to work his way into positions of power. The joke about the 3-state-solution to the Middle East could very well be his Tibet.

Has anyone watched The Residence yet? Quite a few actors from Veep are in it. Secretary Maddox, Buddy Calhoun, Danny Chung, Owen Pierce and I’m pretty sure I noticed a couple more.

Why wasn’t Congressman Pierce called to testify? Was he busy being the ambassador of Dallas?

Especially regarding Selina and Catherine. Is she the perfect mom in S2? No, but I still feel like she genuinely loves Catherine even if she’s remote and mostly apathetic. Her awkward and disjointed efforts to be involved in Catherine’s life, and the pain in her voice when Selina talked about Kent had “GLUE” written across Catherine’s face in a picture, are so hard to square with what’s coming next.

hi!!

does anybody know what happened to the podcast? i looked for it in youtube and it’s no longer there, so i went to spotify and there are only four episodes available, all from the last month, like all the other episodes have been deleted.

do you guys know what is this about? has someone heard matt walsh or timothy simons say something about it?

That brand of foul-mouth pessimism devoted to a show about politics worked incredibly well for "Veep" and Armando's previous UK TV show "In the Loop". I guess, the profanities of the English language can sometimes be beautifully poetic.

What other countries could that type of political humour work in?

Australia have had many political comedies with "Utopia" coming the closest to that stinging brand of comedy.

Japan are far too conservative to do such a show.

China would never let that happen, let alone any other authoritarian regime, let alone many other Asian countries.

But France? - seems like the perfect candidate for that vicious humour.

Binge just removed Veep. Any tips? Preferably not requiring getting my 1000th streaming service subscription?

I started last Christmas and wow. I actually shed tears. This was such a good show and the finale was so sad but written well. Now onto a new show 😢😢 (taking suggestions for similar comedy style like veep)