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“Veep” concluded with Selina Meyer committing the most heinous things imaginable – even by her standards – in order to avoid the most dreaded fate she could imagine: a return to obscurity, i.e., the despised vice presidency.
The once-excellent, seven-season HBO sitcom rates among the finest comedy shows, albeit it became more of a lame duck once Selina (the incomparable Julia Louis-Dreyfus) was kicked out of the Oval Office at the end of Season 5.
The show, which won three straight Emmys for outstanding comedy series and six back-to-back best-actress awards for Louis-Dreyfus, ended with a perfectly planned final episode that highlighted both its virtues and shortcomings.
The 48-minute episode included beautiful flourishes and callbacks but maintained a terrible tendency of debasing its characters, particularly Selina, to the point where they were sometimes more cruel than hilarious. The show made Selina more despicable than she needed to be, but it didn’t try to redeem her in the finale, which was a plus.
After a season focused on Selina’s tenacious drive to return to the White House, the season finale opens in Charlotte, N.C., at her unnamed political party’s nominating convention, with all of the candidates – Selina, moronic former underling Jonah Ryan (Timothy Simons), Gov. Buddy Calhoun (Matt Oberg), and Sen. Kemi Talbot (Toks Olagundoye) – falling short of a.
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Selina runs into Calhoun, her potential vice presidential running mate, and Mike Pence stand-in, on the way to a candidates’ meeting. He’s a man chosen solely for the purpose of ticket balancing: Selina describes him as a wounded war veteran, Roman Catholic (“Is that still a thing?” she wonders), and, most significantly. Also, you must try to play this Veep Series Quiz.
Jonah challenges the delegate vote count at the meeting, casting doubt on mathematics due to its centuries-old roots in the Arab and Muslim world and instead advocates for “Christian math.” His refusal to accept the numbers, combined with his anti-vaccination campaign platform, is far too close to our real world, one of the show’s long-standing satiric strengths that have also become a drawback throughout Donald Trump’s unusual presidency.
Convention chairman Roger Furlong (Dan Bakkedahl), a favorite recurring character who delivers one of his typical foul rants, explains that the nomination race will now be a delegate free-for-all.
On her way out, Selina inadvertently uses a men’s restroom, earning her acclaim when she emerges. Kent Davison (Gary Cole), a smart but arrogant aide, describes the reaction: “Congratulations, Ma’am. You just broke the transgender bathroom statute in North Carolina.” (Fact check: A transgender ban in a 2016 North Carolina statute was repealed in 2017, but the new law is still being litigated.)
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“Veep” then references another real-life event – Russian spy Maria Butina – by having conniving former staffer Dan Egan (Reid Scott) his current meal ticket, the sweetly naive Iowa Gov. Richard Splett (Sam Richardson) stumble into an older delegate with an unrealistically attractive young Ukrainian lover.
Selina, who has been plagued by tales about the Meyer Fund’s questionable operations (a mirror to the Clinton Foundation and other politically connected NGOs), appreciates the lift (and, more significantly, distraction) from her unintentional restroom activism. It even gains her the approval of her daughter Catherine (Sarah Sutherland) and her husband, Marjorie (Clea DuVall).
The change, however, does not sit well with Selina’s holy roller running-mate pick Calhoun, who says in a TV interview, “God designed men’s rooms and women’s rooms, not everyone’s rooms.”
With that option ruled out, Selina turns to another former staffer, Amy Brookheimer (Anna Chlumsky), who was one of the most upstanding “Veep” prospects until she suddenly compromised her morals by working for Jonah.
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