Veep
HBO | Release Date: May 6, 2012
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
82
METASCORE
Universal acclaim based on 115 Critic Reviews
Positive:
99
Mixed:
15
Negative:
1
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60
TV Guide MagazineMatt RoushApr 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]
60
New York Daily NewsDavid HinckleyApr 9, 2015
Season 4 Review: OK, if you don’t find awkward funny, you won’t get Veep. But terrific as Louis-Dreyfus is at playing a woman seemingly incapable of embarrassment, her large supporting cast also helps establish the show’s bizarre rhythm. Read full review
60
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob OwenApr 12, 2013
Season 2 Review: Veep offers uncomfortable comedy at its most sardonic. Read full review
60
TV Guide MagazineMatt RoushApr 12, 2013
Season 2 Review: The satire is vicious, the behaviors of all parties reprehensible, which makes for a bracingly unsavory series but also one that's ultimately sour and predictable. Read full review
60
New York Magazine (Vulture)Matt Zoller SeitzApr 19, 2012
Season 1 Review: It's all rather weightless: just your usual sitcom-style misunderstandings and bruised egos and "complications ensue," with no sense that anything larger is at stake. Read full review
50
Vox.comCaroline FramkeApr 14, 2017
Season 6 Review: Stripping these characters of whatever power they previously had and scattering them to the winds forces everyone into their smallest, meanest selves--which frankly becomes hard to watch, and not in Veep’s usual “cringe because it’s so real” kind of way. Read full review
50
VarietyBrian LowryApr 9, 2013
Season 2 Review: Season two yields modest improvement thanks to shrewd cast additions, augmenting the pleasures of Julia Louis-Dreyfus. Read full review
50
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob OwenApr 20, 2012
Season 1 Review: The result is overly broad and narrow at the same time. Read full review
50
USA TodayRobert BiancoApr 20, 2012
Season 1 Review: What few laughs there are represent a triumph of acting skill over authorial sloth in a show that is more silly than funny--and more dull than silly. Read full review
42
NewsdayVerne GayApr 19, 2012
Season 1 Review: Some amusing lines, but otherwise a disappointing misfire. Read full review
40
Wall Street JournalDorothy RabinowitzApr 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. Read full review
40
VarietyBrian LowryApr 20, 2012
Season 1 Review: Veep sparks to life only occasionally. Read full review
40
The Huffington PostMaureen RyanApr 19, 2012
Season 1 Review: Veep simply isn't particularly fresh or funny, and most of its jokes are telegraphed from a long way away. Read full review
40
New York Daily NewsDavid HinckleyApr 19, 2012
Season 1 Review: It's too easy, too much like a series of safe sketches that play to all the stereotypes everyone in politics claims describe the other side. Read full review
25
Slant MagazinePhillip MaciakApr 23, 2012
Season 1 Review: Mistaking vulgarity for comic edge and very thinly stretched punnery for wit, Veep is less a trenchant satire about contemporary politics than it is a relentlessly mean-spirited spectacle about crummy people. Read full review
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