The series returns again in the fifth season. On the day after the elections, something seems to be happening to Selena, where she may find a way to win. On the other hand, Senator James gets a new role in a few days, Mike prepares to add a new family, and Dan is considering new career options.
Veep can still contribute something of value to a pop-culture landscape in which noxious reality has finally out-crazied fictional satire: A much, much better class of insults.
Every year, it has seemed like Veep wouldn't be able to top itself, but the innovative and unrelenting comedy just kept doing it anyway, every year, without fail.
Bless Veep... for offering an escapist respite from the daily skirmishes of the campaign, while heaping pitiless, justified scorn on the people who are content to let our broken system stay broken.
What Veep nails - and what never gets dated - is the raging hostility at the core of it all. So here's to four more years of President Selina: Make America hateful again.
The familiar cast of gargoyles have retained an obsession with the rectal that reeks of the 18th century, but also of the production line: jokes manufactured with machine-tooled efficiency.
While Veep may have been on firmer ground when Selina was being abused by power rather than abusing it, Louis-Dreyfus still glows with brazen contempt for political or even polite convention and is almost endearing when Selena invariably stumbles.
