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Critic Reviews
Mar 29, 2019
Season 7 Review:
No surprise, Louis-Dreyfus and one of the best ensemble casts of the 21st century are as sharp and fast and flat-out hilarious as they’ve ever been. This show makes me laugh out loud--even when I’m equal parts in awe and appalled by a 2019 television show with the, um, brass to feature running jokes about mass shootings and abortion.
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Mar 29, 2019
Season 7 Review:
Veep is still as hilariously cutting as ever. Its performances are fantastic, its rhythm and density are unparalleled, and its sense of the absurd is still sharp, especially in moments where it mocks political events. ... The Jonah plotline is hard to stomach--because it’s meant to be that way--and yet the rest of its stories feel like they’re playing by political rules. That doesn’t make Veep any less watchable.
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Mar 29, 2019
Season 7 Review:
Veep is and always was a cruelly satisfying, fully original journey into Washington’s darkest behaviors. Banish any thought that its brilliant star, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, would return to the series after a personal cancer scare inclined to soften Selina Meyer for even a subliminally sentimental exit. Instead, and with great satisfaction, it appears Veep will go out at its nastiest and bitterest best.
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Mar 29, 2019
Season 7 Review:
There really was no doubt that Veep was going to kill it in this final season. ... This season seems to delight just a little bit more in turning the mirror on present-day American politics, and there are some astoundingly funny send-ups along the way. There is also some sublime humor that proves all targets are in play
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Mar 28, 2019
Season 7 Review:
In the first few episodes of the new season, pretty much everyone in the “Veep” cast gets a moment in which to show off the breadth of their skill, ripping into the show’s signature waterfalls of profanity with relish. ... But 7 seasons in, much of the novelty of “Veep’s” signature viciousness has worn off.
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TV Guide MagazineMar 27, 2019
Season 7 Review:
In its last hurrah, Veep is an unimpeachable hoot. [1-14 Apr 2019, p.13]
ColliderMar 27, 2019
Mar 26, 2019
Season 7 Review:
The show may make a point of not aping or mimicking Trump, but its gleeful celebration of pragmatism and hypocrisy, of self-serving politics bent on power at any cost, and dismissive scorn for institutions great and small is perfectly attuned to the times. It almost hurts to laugh. But laugh, helplessly and abundantly, you do.
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Apr 17, 2017
Season 6 Review:
Ben's Silicon Valley culture shock, Dan's power struggle with his mercurial co-star, and Jonah's congressional hazing provide new fodder for Veep's beyond the claustrophobic halls of power. After five seasons, the show's limited context began to constrain comedic potential; now its characters are free to wreak havoc in an exponentially larger environment.
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Apr 14, 2017
Season 6 Review:
When real life exceeds the show’s most over-the-top imaginings, it also takes some of the life out of the show’s satire. Coherent story lines and parsable dialogue, applied to national politics, feel so 2015. This may be unfair to Veep (it’s more about perception than quality), but it’s hard to ignore. ... Which isn’t to say that Veep isn’t still sharp, sly and frequently hilarious.
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Apr 14, 2017
Season 6 Review:
The show's sixth season, debuting April 16, doesn't take place within the corridors of power at all. It's about the disempowerment of a woman politician who believed she was going to cement her legacy by winning the election, and it's one of the most daring, and accidentally relevant, narrative turns the show has taken.
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Apr 14, 2017
Season 6 Review:
One of the most difficult things a sitcom can do is to monkey with its basic premise, scattering characters here and there, while retaining its quality (and its audience). This usually happens with shows whose casts are aging--when a series set during high school must graduate its class to college, for example--and the results are frequently dire, or at the least, second-rate. Not so with Veep.
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Apr 14, 2017Uncle BarkyApr 12, 2017
Season 6 Review:
Absent the trappings of official power and high-stakes infighting by Selina and her team, the very blue banter at times seems both juvenile and excessive. ... The open question is whether Veep can sustain itself as a comedy about a festering ex-president who’s desperate to remain relevant in civilian life. But it seems likely.
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Apr 12, 2017
Apr 11, 2017
Season 6 Review:
Veep is still Veep, which is to say outrageous, brash, and very funny in promulgating its convincing vision of democracy as running on nothing but inertia. But ... Outfunnying a Trump administration on absurdist terms might be impossible, but it’s a letdown that Veep hasn’t, at least through three episodes, given it a real try.
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May 2, 2016
Season 5 Review:
Veep doesn’t have as many pointed one-liners as it did in the past (could the absence of creator Armando Iannucci be the reason?) but it still boasts a cast that’s as sharp as ever. The addition of John Slattery as a possible love interest is clever, but some installments get bogged down by a parade of guest stars trying to share a bit of the fun.
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TV Guide MagazineApr 28, 2016
Season 5 Review:
The pressure [from the recount] brings out the worst in characters who have never shied from revealing their basest natures. Unfortunately, it also brings out the clumsiest in the show's writers, straining to one-up their own breathtaking cynical vulgarity with jokes in need for a rewrite. [2-8 May 2016, p.18]
Apr 25, 2016
Season 5 Review:
The show’s fifth season is still sharp, well-plotted, and peppered with laugh-out-loud moments of obscenity. But like so much current satire—from SNL to The Daily Show to Scandal’s Donald Trump analogue--it’s struggling to match the unpredictable political pulse of the moment.
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Apr 22, 2016
Season 5 Review:
Veep works because it is a compact ensemble comedy, filled with the sort of overheard details and wonk verisimilitude that has a way of making the show seem just real enough, even when it has played coy about whether its lead character is a Democrat or a Republican. In that way, it stands far apart from much of what passes for political comedy these days.
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Apr 22, 2016
Season 5 Review:
The show, now maybe more than ever, is constructed as a simple reason to get a bunch of funny people in a room and shoot rat-a-tat barbs at one another for thirty minutes at a time. The political satire, the write-that-one-down cursing, and the myriad, exceptional cast are just icing on the cake.
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Apr 22, 2016
Season 5 Review:
The fifth season of Veep doesn’t just win the expectations game, it just wins. The rapid-fire, acid-tongued dialogue hasn’t changed, nor has the almost unfathomable ratio of zingers per minute. With a cast this talented--Julia Louis-Dreyfus remains at the height of her talents--the only thing that could go wrong is the writing, but it’s as assured and hilarious as ever.
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Apr 21, 2016
Season 5 Review:
Any fears that the departure of series creator Armando Iannucci would result in a diminishment of quality are immediately allayed. New showrunner David Mandel demonstrates a firm command and light touch in keeping the new episodes centered around Louis-Dreyfus and Selina’s bursts of anger, her deflations of despair, and her reactions to both the stupidity and shrewd mendacity of her staff.
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Apr 9, 2015
Season 4 Review:
The series reserves its most blistering humor for the universal narcissism on display, always distracting from the real work at hand. For all the brilliant, tossed-off insults and uniformly excellent performances, including Patton Oswalt as a "hands-on" aide to the vice president, the season's through line is its treatment of politics as a con artist's medium.
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Apr 9, 2015
Season 4 Review:
Almost everyone speaks in the same rat-a-tat voice, which, as some discovered with Aaron Sorkin on “The Newsroom,” can begin to yield diminishing returns. The series also remains a bit too precious in sidestepping issues of partisanship, a conceit that has grown somewhat more tolerable over time. For all that, the Emmy-winning Louis-Dreyfus remains an inordinately gifted comedic actress.
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Apr 6, 2015
Season 4 Review:
The dialogue is, as always, ribald and inspired. [10 Apr 2015, p.59]
Apr 4, 2014
Season 3 Review:
The show's as cynical as ever, but it doesn't feel nearly as empty. Selina's more of an actual character--and has become an accomplished slinger of four-letter verbiage in her own right--and even if the team's screw-ups remain inevitable, the ways in which they screw up feel far less predictable.
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Apr 4, 2014
Season 3 Review:
[A] fast, funny political satire. [14 Apr 2014, p.49]
Apr 11, 2013
Season 2 Review:
Louis-Dreyfus's performance--which, like Congress, can be divided into two houses, Crackling Charm and Hysterical Ego--still drives the show, but we're getting more realistic sense of political gamesmanship. [22 Apr 2013, p.45]
Apr 3, 2013
Apr 27, 2012
Season 1 Review:
She's not funny, the aide is told--a line that elicited in this viewer a stream of unstoppable thoughts about what was not funny about this show, which is a lot, all of which ended up pointing, inexorably, to its writers. What saves the show is Ms. Louis-Dreyfus's Selina.
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Apr 20, 2012
Apr 20, 2012
Season 1 Review:
It's still an acerbically entertaining show that I'll keep watching for now because of the strong cast, because of its gift for the obscene bon mot (a Selina speech edited for political concerns by the White House is said to be "pencil-fucked"), and because I hope it will grow into something more distinctive.
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TV Guide MagazineApr 20, 2012
Season 1 Review:
Much more conventional than Girls in its savagely profane workplace humor, its bad behavior recalls Curb Your Enthusiasm while the setting is reminiscent of The Larry Sanders Show in its hysterical behind-the-curtain peek at dysfunction and incompetence in high places.
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