Season 6 begins with new events. One year after losing the presidency, Selena is trying to get over her and secure her legacy. On the other hand, Dan is trying to occupy himself in his new job that looks good, while proving the personality of the style of Emmy is a character that is seen by new colleagues at work.
Veep is a satirization of all power-hungry politicians, neutral to their party, past, or principles. But most importantly, it's telling its own story. This is a serialized narrative that refuses to rewrite history in order to mock it.
What Veep is now providing, in contrast to its previous seasons, is a sense of moral stability: Here are a bunch of incompetent people who are living, finally, with the ramifications of their incompetence.
The comedy is great, as usual, and, this year, it resonates particularly well with our national anxiety level. Veep has so much winning that we might get bored with winning ... by season 25, maybe.
This new season of Veep is the political satire we need right now. It lampoons the outsized egos and fumbling of a crew of Washington knuckleheads just as dysfunction in real life politics is front-page news.
Domehow, over the course of her tenure, the woman at its centre has become a constant, and oddly comforting, presence in American political life: Selina Meyer, the devil you know.
