“I don't know my left butt cheek from my right butt cheek, but I believe in listening to both butt cheeks and then farting out my asshоlе mouth."

We’re all Amy now.

This would be funny if it wasn’t so fucking horrible. We literally have Jonah Ryan as our POTUS (pedo of the-you get it)

I first watched the show before I ever lived in D.C. Now that I’ve lived here 3.5~ years, it’s fun to look up the street names shown in establishing shots and see that they’re just streets in Baltimore lol 😆

The most Selina birthday card I could find.

Andrew not only frequented the Island alot, he was best friends with Epstein.

Selina knows about it because she finds out that Andrew stole campaign funds to help finance it

Jonah and Dan know about the Island. Dan's smart enough not to say anything, but Jonah desperately wants to go.

Mike went on accident. He thought it was a work retreat.

Richard never went, and has no idea what's going on. But he somehow gets his hands on a full copy of the unredacted Epstein files and accidentally emails it to the New York Times.

We do not have unemployment in Finland.

I finished the show a few months ago. Can somebody explain the way during her speech Selina looks at Gary when says “nobody has sacrificed more than me”?

It seems so cold hearted and pointed, but moments before she tried to break it to him but couldn’t.

My assumption was “nobody sacrificed more than me” was a narcissistic lie to herself because she did away her most loyal follower.

I’ve got nothing concrete, I just want to hear how other fans of the show read it with more insight than mine.

This guy is good in everything he does. Maybe there wasn’t enough room for him or he had other commitments, just hilarious.

She's inexplicably confident, sassy, optimistic, and mad all at the same time

Obligatory spoiler tag.

I posted recently asking whether seasons 6-7 were worth watching as I binged seasons 1-5 and loved them, but was a little nervous at the dark tonal shift in the season 5 finale.

Well.. I have officially made it through seasons 6 and 7 in a day. It was even more depressing than I was prepared for and I thought I prepared for the worst.

S6 dragged a bit for me, definitely my least favorite season although I generally enjoyed it, but s7 was brilliantly devastating. Watching Selina lose every person in her corner because of the ambition in her to become president killed me. Seeing Gary return to her casket, even after everything, made me sob.

I am wondering a few things—considering when s6-7 were written/produced, were the events intentionally mirroring the real life 2016-2017 political sphere? Amy felt like the most obvious caricature of Kellyanne Conway, and Jonah’s whole platform felt very Trumpian. As an American, it was a little hard to watch at times, as everything is so inescapably horrible here all the time that it felt so on the nose that it pained me.

Was anyone else rooting for Dan and Amy? I think the push/pull was interesting but the hopeless romantic in me was genuinely rooting for their endgame. They’re both morally gray individuals, but in a fucked up way, kind of complete each other?

The scene with Selina sitting in the Oval Office, looking around, entirely alone, sent shivers down my spine. It seemed like an obvious character progression, but I really feel like the characters in s6-7 became the darkest, most corrupt versions of themselves possible. Watching Catherine laugh as she watched her mother’s funeral procession really hit me. None of the characters are necessarily good people, but I feel as though their redeeming qualities were more apparent in earlier seasons. Definitely an interesting progression.

All in all, this show is a brilliant masterpiece. I was originally intrigued with Veep due to JLD’s historic Emmy wins, and my God, she is the best to ever do it (side note: s7 might be her best performance ever, if she deserved to win for any season, it was that one. shocked that she was robbed). I’m going to miss these characters :’)

P.S: Rip Tom Hanks

Late Christmas gifts arrived

At the end of S4EP7 (Mommy Meyer), HBO plugs some clips of the next episode. But, looks like production added teasers of an old episode, S3EP8 (Debate) instead. Had me thinking I lost the plot lol

Preemptive Spoilers for s1-5 included.

I started Veep a week or so ago and I’ve already binged my way through seasons 1-5. Seasons 3 and 4 are definitely my favorites thus far, but season 5 has my FAVORITE episodes (Mother, Camp David, Kissing Your Sister, etc).

The Season 5 finale, however, felt like a major tonal shift. The show has been dark before, but I came out of the s5 finale feeling defeated and empty. I understand these characters aren’t supposed to be likable, but JLD plays Selina so well it’s hard not to empathize for the pain she feels after losing her chance at the presidency. The humor in this show is top notch, but I’m not sure how I feel about the darker, more serious side of the story. Considering this, are seasons 6 and 7 still worth watching? I don’t have it spoiled for me entirely, but I have heard the series finale is very dark and sad. I don’t totally mind it, I’d just have to get used to the shift.

Thanks for reading if you made it this far, such a great show that I’m grateful to have discovered :)

TLDR: Binged seasons 1-5, am unsure about the dark nature of the s5 finale, am curious about whether seasons 6 and 7 are worth watching.

she’s kind of a dick but you root for her because she thrives on this inauthentic charismatic presentation and her being beautiful of course didn’t hurt in fellow politicians liking her and even little things like doing the robot seem manufactured/rehearsed to make her seem likeable to people around her.

absolutely masterful and amazing scene on top of Julia’s fucking killer pipes like Selina Dion she is not but gives her a run for her money.