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Veep - S6 |OT| - Making History. Whether You Like It Or Not. - Sundays on HBO

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Hazmat

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barik said:
Goddamn, that Furlong dinner.
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The best part of the episode for me was Furlong and his subordinate having the same structure of Furlong making him say something insulting about himself but it's changed to be something super fake and positive.

I really haven't been feeling any of the stuff with Dan this season.
 
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Hazmat said:
The best part of the episode for me was Furlong and his subordinate having the same structure of Furlong making him say something insulting about himself but it's changed to be something super fake and positive.

I really haven't been feeling any of the stuff with Dan this season.
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Episode was amazing but agreed on the Dan part.
 
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BlackJace

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The show is definitely best when the gang is in close proximity, but I've really been feeling this season. A step up from S5.
 
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tearsintherain

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RatskyWatsky said:
I don't think I've ever laughed at a single thing Furlong or his assistant have said.
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Whats the matter, Dobby the House Elf not finger bang you enough as a kid?

SORRY, sorry, sorry I just finished watching this week's Veep and I got some Furlong rubbed off on me.

There are a few things that feel "off" about this season, but end of the day if you had me pick a show with the most jokes per second Veep would still be at the very top of my list. They may not all work but goddamn the writers really do put in the work on this show like no other.

Seeing Jonah actually have some power is really weird. I hope at his wedding, Richard is the best man.
 
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Hazmat said:
I really haven't been feeling any of the stuff with Dan this season.
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Seriously? "It would be uncharted territory for me. Sort of like Indiana Jones, I guess. Digging my way through the ancient ruins, hacking my way past the crazy cobwebs and snakes and shit, hoping my face doesn't melt when I open her up."

My wife and I were crying, we were laughing so hard.
 
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Hazmat said:
I really haven't been feeling any of the stuff with Dan this season.
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I really hope the Dan stuff is going somewhere fast. So far it just feels so distant that it doesn't share much of the joke halo from the tighter linked cast. It feels like filler, which is sad because his sociopathic charm can be magic. Finding out he was impotent just reminded me how much I missed him being a major beat in the story.
 
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A season 7 is not really making me that excited. I binged this about 2 months ago, and I had a wild ride, but it's not just that great anymore. It's still funny – I just love Mike – but the stakes are gone and there is no real ongoing narrative to drive the series forward. The end of season 5 would've been an excellent note to end this on.
 
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Socreges

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"Back in America people are always telling me to go back to Africa. I'm actually glad I did, this is magical out here."

Continues to be the best part of this season

Selina's selfishness has gotten pretty extreme. Jonah is way more pathetic than ever. And few of them have the kind of self-awareness or restraint that they seemed to have in past seasons.

Still brilliant writing for the most part.
 
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KiN0

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I'm not excited about a seventh season after seeing 5 and 6. The acting, writing, and jokes are still a fast as ever, but they just add up to a sum that's less than its parts.

Part of veep's appeal, for me, came from the biting political satire that you'd expect from a comedy about the vice president of the US-something these last two seasons have been missing.
 
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Hazmat

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A seventh season makes me want a conclusion. This season already feels like "fuck it, they're letting us make more so why not" so I'd really like them to wrap it up. I'm still enjoying it, but I'm not looking forward to the episode next season where Selina and Gary run into the former Finnish Prime Minister at a CVS in Akron, Ohio and just can't shake her for the rest of the day.
 
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Revenant

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Still on board for a S7. The show has lost a bit of charm now that it doesn't focus on the the actual day to day politics of a WH Administration but the writing is still snappy and the interplay between this cast is so good. A bit of a bummer that at times the actual narrative of the season feels a little disjointed and cartoonish but I still get a lot of strong laughs.
 
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New episode tonight
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Selina (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) tries to finish her book. Selina and her staff prepare for her portrait-unveiling ceremony, while Jonah (Timothy Simons) tries to weasel his way onto the guest list. Dan (Reid Scott) works on his onscreen-chemistry problem.
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daviyoung

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I'm having a hard time following this season but is the bald Qatari supposed to be an Assad analogue? The Oxford University t-shirt made me think if it.
 
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Chase17

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I think that was probably the strongest episode of the season. The one word of mixed in Spanish from the president always makes me laugh.
 
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SURGEdude

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Chase17 said:
I think that was probably the strongest episode of the season. The one word of mixed in Spanish from the president always makes me laugh.
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Not sure I agree about the episode itself, but the direction it pointed seemed more promising than any other this season.
 
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Hasney

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Ha, that was so fucking good.

I never care if my comedies have any direction if they make me laugh so I'm good with a Season 7 or more. I really don't care if there's never a conclusion.
 
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CocaMantis

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When Gary leans into Selina's ear and introduce Montez's Gary and that dude also leans in to Selina. I lost it so hard.
This season it's kinda hit or miss. For example, the episode when they go to Georgia its one of the best from the show IMO. Still a funny as hell show and the fact that the core staff is all scattered gives a lot of new scenarios (Kent and Ben working for Jonah being the best and most underrated bit).
I'm expecting an impeachment to Montez by the end of the season and Selina going for the presidency again. Imagine Jonah as VP? The possibilities...
 
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hydrophilic attack

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Really good episode. Some people have complained about less of a satirical edge this season, and I have sort of agreed with that, but with this episode it became rather clear that they're doing that stuff with Jonah instead. I like what they're doing with him as a Cruz/Trump analogue
 
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Vyer

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"He's Montez's me."

"Maybe you were too busy biting James Bond's cable car wire.."

And damn, that Katrina-Mexican joke combo
 
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Socreges

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jett said:
Have these characters always been this grossly unlikable
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They've always been unlikable. Though this season has been a bit more extreme imo. They've fallen into the same trap so many long-running sitcoms do by exaggerating a character's idiosyncrasies to more easily tap good material.

Vyer said:
"He's Montez's me."

"Maybe you were too busy biting James Bond's cable car wire.."

And damn, that Katrina-Mexican joke combo
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That one caught me off guard. Good stuff.
 
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matrix-cat

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"Maybe you were too busy biting James Bond's cable car wire to realise, but if we don't raise the debt ceiling, America's financial system is going to go belly up like what, Will?"

"Like my Labradoodle Teddy, when I cover his cock in honey and give him a Sticky Licky."

I was crying.
 
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dLMN8R

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So everyone agrees that this series is leading to Jonah being the selected nominee for president, with Selina as his VP, right?
 
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tearsintherain

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dLMN8R said:
So everyone agrees that this series is leading to Jonah being the selected nominee for president, with Selina as his VP, right?
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President Jonah Ryan
Vice President Richard Splett
Secretary of Defense Selina Meyer
Secretary of Shit No One Cares About Dan Egan

"Why are women always checking in on one another when I'm talking to them?"
"Do you want me to 69 him?"

They've updated Jonah's website
https://jonahryancongressman.com/
 
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Cornballer

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Veep is off tonight because of the Leftovers finale and some other scheduling issues. It'll be back on next week. There are three episodes remaining this season.
 
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