I would have also accepted “So, I’ve been pencil-fucked? Yes. Front and back, with very little romance.”
I liked it.
“Senator Phil Dorsey at Two O’Clock”
“I’m not a sniper.”
Julia Louis-Dreyfus deserves an Emmy purely for the expressions on her face when she hears about the POTUS’s chest pains.
I saw the first episode. And what came up missing for me was someone who wasn’t such a caricature. Also, if Selena is supposed to be the Veep, it would have been nice to see her have some competence in something, so you could appreciate how she does it with a staff in shambles or full of funny characters or something.
Also, none of the characters are likable, which I found offputting.
I’ll watch some more episodes but I hope it evolves from the first one.
I doubt it will, at least on those axes. That’s exactly how The Thick Of It rolls - unlikeable characters and incompetent ministers. It’s all about the dialogue and the farcical scenarios. Besides, the Senator in this week’s Veep was likeable - he talked about fisting.
That’s part of the joke. Selena was a pretty competent senator, and she had the early lead in the presidential primary, but she couldn’t hold it, so she had to settle for vice president, the job that no one wants in Washington because, as FDR’s first VP said, the job is worth a warm bucket of spit. She gets little responsibility and power, she can’t hog the spotlight, she always has to defer to the president, and her only hope in life is, basically, her boss getting chest pains.
Speaking of which, that moment when she poked her head back in the situation room with a wistful look in her eyes was fantastic.
So, apparently BBC America decided to bleep The Thick Of It, even though it was airing at midnight. Why bother airing it at all? It’s like airing a porn film and cutting the sex scenes.
What, you mean industrial training videos?
No love for the latest episodes?
I thought Nicknames was hilarious. Jonah is awesome, and sure, Innaucci is recycling some jokes (croisant dildo and the metal band), but it’s still funny. Plus, that was a fuckload of bread. It’s like two grain silos fucked.
I love some of the stuff Julie Louis-Dreyfus does, and all of the stuff Matt Walsh does. But otherwise, Veep is tired, stilted, and tame. What a disappointment next to Thick of It and In the Loop. :(
-Tom
“All right, good job, dummy. Sit down.”
I thought it was o.k. haven’t watched past the first episode though.
Really nice episode last night (episode 7) for its cool mean-spiritedness. Directed by Christopher “Four Lions” Morris, no less! Julie Louis-Dreyfus is much better here as a calculating bitch than a hapless dupe (i.e. Elaine from Seinfeld).
Also, I’m glad to see HBO going ahead with a second season. I like the direction it seems to be headed.
-TomDirected by Christopher “Four Lions” Morris
Heh. So weird to have him be called that. Partly the “Christopher” bit, and partly because he’s much more famous over here for his earlier work with Iannucci, namely On The Hour and The Day Today.
I’m still giddy that someone dropped "sidle’ as a verb. Elaine would be proud. Give that man some Tic-Tacs!
Holy shit, tonight’s episode was easily the best episode this show has ever done. I haven’t laughed this hard in a year.
“It’s, uh, in a word: c’mon.”
“You do realize that that makes you sound like you’re playing for time, and you… actually are hiding something.”
“…”
“Burn everything incriminating, including this building. Burn all the White House pets, then yourselves. Burn yourselves first.”