TV #24 of 2019: Veep, season 4 As always, Veep is a funny show that frustrates me with its petty vision of American politics and doesn’t really provide anyone or anything worth rooting for. I’ve given previous years 3-star ratings for that reason, but this one has such an uneven approach to its central campaign …
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TV Review: Veep, season 3
TV #54 of 2018: Veep, season 3 This season’s election plot injects something more like stakes into the show’s proceedings, but overall it’s the same steady comedy of detestable people in politics. That’s never been entirely my jam, and it feels even more dissonant to watch in the era of Trump (even though this batch …
TV Review: Veep, season 2
TV #22 of 2016: Veep, season 2 This season’s humor is sharper than the first, and the characters are better-realized. But they’re still all terrible people, to the point where I’m not really rooting for anyone while watching. (If anything, I’m sometimes rooting against one character more than another based on who’s been relatively more …
TV Review: Veep, season 1
TV #9 of 2016: Veep, season 1 Veep is another political sitcom from the same creator as The Thick of It, and the insults are nearly as inventive, but it just isn’t clicking the same way for me. I think part of the problem is that this American version of the program doesn’t really have …
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